2017 Wednesday January 11 – Dennis Molinaro, Trent University: “The Official Secret.” Wednesday January 25 – Anna Jarvis, York University: “Colonial criminal justice and the Mi’kmaq: the case of Tom Williams, Prince Edward Island, 1839”. Wednesday February 8 – Bill Wylie, Independent Scholar: “The “Majestic Equality” of the Law: Diverging Views on the Reform of… Read more »
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Sidney L. Harring
Dr. Sidney Harring is Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York School of Law. Besides teaching undergraduate sociology and law, he has done extensive research and scholarship on juries, police, American Indians, and the social history of American law. These wide-ranging interests have taken him around the world; he has been a visiting… Read more »
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Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop Schedules 2011-2017
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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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Harry W. Arthurs
BA, LLB (TORONTO) LLM (HARVARD) LL.D. (hon) SHERBROOKE, BROCK, LAW SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, MCGILL, MONTREAL, TORONTO, YORK, SIMON FRASER, D.C.L. (hon) WINDSOR, D. LITT. (hon) LETHBRIDGE, FRSC, FBA Harry Arthurs OC OO is University Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus of York University. He was the Canada Council’s first Killam Laureate in the Social Sciences (2002)… Read more »
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September 14, 2021 - Osgoode Society Authors have been Elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
The Osgoode Society is delighted to announce that our Associate Editor-in-Chief and five-time Osgoode Society author, Professor Philip Girard, and Professor Lori Chambers, another of our authors (three times) have both been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Philip Girard’s prize-winning work on the history of law in Canada has shaped the field… Read more »
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Indigenous Rights Litigator Jean Teillet
Jean Teillet will speak about her career in a question and answer session, which will also involve a discussion of the importance to her work of legal history. Jean has been litigator in the areas of Indigenous rights, including Métis rights, and in reproductive health law. Jean holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from the University… Read more »
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Robert J. Sharpe
Robert Sharpe was a judge of the Ontario Court of Appeal from 1999 to 2020. He was called to the bar in 1974 and practiced with MacKinnon McTaggart (later McTaggart Potts) in the area of civil litigation. He was a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law from 1976 to 1988 where he… Read more »
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A Trying Question: The Jury in Nineteenth Century Canada
by R. Blake Brown, Professor of History, St Mary’s University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2009. The jury has long been a central institution of both the trial process in particular and of the ideology of the common law in general, a body exemplifying the distinctiveness of our legal tradition. In this first book-length… Read more »
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Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950
Eric Reiter’s Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, has been named as a co-winner of the monograph prize from the Fondation du Barreau du Québec. The official notice can be found here: https://www.fondationdubarreau.qc.ca/decouvrez-les-laureats-du-concours-juridique-2021-et-les-regles-de-ledition-2022/. The Osgoode Society is thrilled to announce that Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec 1870-1950, by Professor Eric Reiter, has been awarded the Canadian Historical… 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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