Wednesday, January 18 at 5:30: John Borrows, Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, Discussed Indigenous law ”Wednesday, February 16, 2022 – Professor Harvey Amani Whitfield on “The Trials of Statia: An Enslaved Black Woman in Colonial Canada” Wednesday October 20, 2021 – Professor Eric Adams, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta. Professor… Read more »
232 Search Results for: Registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada
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R.C.B. Risk
Richard Risk is a former Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He joined the Faculty in 1962, and consistently taught at least one course a year on legal history from 1964 on. Originally, Professor Risk’s legal scholarship focused principally on real estate law, while in later years he became one of the country’s… Read more »
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Brendan O’Brien
The late Brendan O’Brien was a distinguished lawyer whose years of practice focused mainly on civil litigation. His career spanned six decades, beginning with his graduation from Osgoode Hall (1932). Mr. O’Brien began as a junior with the firm of Phelan and Richardson, rising to become a Senior partner before the firm’s merger with Aylesworth… Read more »
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C. Ian Kyer
Dr. Kyer practices information technology law at RPM Technologies. He has been ranked as one of the leading 500 Lawyers in Canada by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. For several years he has been listed in the International Who’s Who of Internet and E-commerce Lawyers. He has also been rated twice as one of the… Read more »
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Donald Fyson
Donald Fyson is Professor of History in the Département d’histoire of Université Laval. He has published extensively in eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth- century Quebec history, with a focus on the relationship between state, law and society, especially as seen through the criminal and civil justice system, the police and local administration. These themes are explored… Read more »
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Judy Fudge
Judy Fudge is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, U.K. She was previously Landsdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She joined the University of Victoria in 2007 from Osgoode Hall Law School where she began her career. She has published extensively in employment and labour law in… Read more »
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Beverley Boissery
Beverley Boissery is a independent historian and an author. She has written eleven books ranging from academic history to young adult fiction. In the 1960s she worked as an elementary school teacher and then went back to school in the 1970s to earn her Bachelor’s degree and Doctorate. She has been a scholar-in-residence at Regent… Read more »
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Past Recorded Events and Lectures
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The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
By Carolyn Strange, University of Toronto Press. This major study of the operation of the death penalty focusses on the disposition by executive review of all cases between Confederation and the abolition of the death penalty in which the offender not only committed murder but did so at the same time as he (or she)… Read more »
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My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures
by Martin Friedland, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2007. Professor Martin Friedland has been involved in many areas of legal research and law reform in his career, and the Osgoode Society is very pleased to be able to publish his account of that involvement, especially as… Read more »
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The Massey Murder: A Maid, her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
by Charlotte Gray, Independent Historian, published with Harper Collins, 2013. $25.00. In 1915 Carrie Davies, an 18-year old servant girl in the home of Charles (Bert) Massey, scion of the famous Massey family, shot and killed her employer as he entered his house after work. Remarkably, she was acquitted, and award winning popular historian Charlotte… Read more »
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