In this section we include information about forthcoming legal history conferences, seminars, lectures etc, in Canada and around the world. Call for Papers – Eastern Townships & Legal History- DEADLINE MAY 15, 2025 This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada, which will honor both Sherbrooke and Bishop’s Universities with an… Read more »
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The Fiercest Debate: Cecil A. Wright, The Benchers And Legal Education In Ontario, 1923-1957.
by C. Ian Kyer And Jerome Bickenbach. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1987. Disagreements over legal education have by no means been restricted to Ontario or to the twentieth century. The nature of legal education was debated in many parts of Europe and North America in the course of the nineteenth century. As the… Read more »
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The Conventional Man: The Diaries of Ontario Chief Justice Robert A. Harrison, 1856-1878
edited with an introduction by Peter N. Oliver, Professor of History, York University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2003. Between 1856 and 1878, the year of his death, Robert A. Harrison, a Toronto lawyer, often described as the outstanding common law lawyer of his generation in Canada and Chief Justice of Ontario in the… Read more »
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Kent Roach
Kent Roach is a Professor of Law, Criminology, and Political Science at the University of Toronto, and the Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy. He was law clerk to Madame Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1988-1989) before joining the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on the current… 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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Constance Backhouse
Professor Backhouse is the Distinguished Professor, University Research Chair in the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. She researches and teaches in the areas of criminal law, human rights, legal history, and women and the law. Professor Backhouse was President… 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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Legal History for Legal Professionals – THIS EVENT IS FULL
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THE OSGOODE SOCIETY. UNFORTUNATELY THE SESSION THIS EVENING IS FULL. WE WILL BE SENDING INFORMATION SOON IN REGARDS TO OUR NEXT EVENT. Join us for the Osgoode Society’s first evening session of legal history for legal professionals – and earn 20 minutes of CLE professionalism credit at the same time. Justice Robert… Read more »
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Wayne Sumner
Wayne Sumner is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto. His professional teaching and research have focused on ethical theory, applied ethics (especially bioethics), political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He is the author of six books including The Hateful and the Obscene: Studies in the Limits of Free Expression (2004)… Read more »
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A History of Canadian Income Tax Volume II, 1948-71
Our second optional extra is Colin Campbell and Robert Raizenne, A History of Canadian Income Tax Volume II, 1948-71, published by the Canadian Tax Foundation. Colin Campbell is a Professor of Law at Western University and Robert Raizenne is a partner at Osler’s. This book follows up on the same authors’ Volume I, published by the Osgoode Society… Read more »
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