OSGOODE SOCIETY AWARDS. The Osgoode Society is very pleased to announce the 2020 winners of two of its awards. Peter Oliver Prize. Named for the Society’s first and long-serving Editor-in-Chief, the Peter Oliver Prize is given for published work in Canadian legal history by a student. The 2020 winner is Jacqueline Briggs, a Ph.D. student… Read more »
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June 22, 2020 - The Osgoode Society Announces Awards for 2020
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Shelley Gavigan
Shelley A.M. Gavigan, BA (Saskatchewan), LLB (Saskatchewan), MA (Toronto), LLM (Osgoode Hall Law School), SJD (University of Toronto). Shelley Gavigan is Professor Emerita and Senior Scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, having retired as Professor of Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University in January 2017. She is a retired member of the Law… Read more »
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Barry Wright
Barry Wright is a professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University. His teaching interests are the history of criminal law and its administration, comparative colonial legal history, constitutional law and legal, social and political theory. Since joining Carleton in 1986, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
edited by G. Blaine Baker & Jim Phillips. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1999. Collections of essays are usually organised around a particular theme. This book, which represents Canadian legal historians’ tribute to Professor Dick Risk, is, at first glance, something of an exception to that practice. The essays here cover subjects which range… Read more »
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White Man’s Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence
by Sidney Harring. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1998. In recent years numerous important books have appeared which deal with the history of aboriginal populations in early Canada. Although these studies add enormously to our understanding of the role played by native peoples in the British North American and Canadian communities, there has… Read more »
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Evening of Canadian Legal History
On November 19 Professor Heidi Bohaker will present our fourth evening of Canadian Legal History. Professor Bohaker will present the following : Canada by Treaty: Indigenous Legal Traditions and the Common Law of Property in the Agreements that Shaped a Country. A central fact of the Canadian historical experience is that the French and subsequently… Read more »
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Oral History Program
The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Program is the world’s largest oral history program dedicated to legal history. Since 1979, the Society has conducted more than 700 interviews and deposited over 100,000 pages of transcripts in the Archives of Ontario. Interview subjects include lawyers, judges, politicians, and members of the police services. Interview documentation consists of… Read more »
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Membership
Established in 1979, the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History publishes books on Canadian legal history, creates and preserves an oral history archive, and puts on legal history lectures and similar events. Since 1981 the Society has published 125 books, including our 2024 books, on a remarkably diverse range of topics in Canadian legal history,… Read more »
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What is Oral History?
Oral History What is Oral History? Historians have traditionally relied on documents of various kinds while conducting their research. But documents are often insufficient for fully reconstructing the past, and this is as true of legal history as of any other field of history. Court and other legal records from the past have been lost,… Read more »
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Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905
by Shelley Gavigan, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School. Published with the University of British Columbia Press, 2012. Shortly after Confederation Canada acquired the territories formerly owned and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Among the formidable challenges brought by this massive land acquisition, the most notable was the task of reconciling the aboriginal peoples of… Read more »
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