Please see the recent article and review of Claire L’Heureux-Dube: A Life which appeared in the Globe and Mail on Monday. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-retired-supreme-court-justice-claire-lheureux-dubes-biography/
45 Search Results for: Supreme Court of Canada
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September 5, 2018 - Recent Article and Review of Claire L’Heureux-Dube: A Life by Constance Backhouse
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Ian Bushnell
Ian Bushnell is a legal scholar and was a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor. His book, The Captive Court: A Study of the Supreme Court of Canada, was a finalist for the 1995 Foundation for Legal Research Walter Owen Book Prize.
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The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood
by Mr. Justice Robert Sharpe of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and Prof. Patricia McMahon, Osgoode Hall Law School. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2007. The Persons’ Case is one of the best known Canadian constitutional cases, both for the fact that it declared women to be ‘persons’ for the purposes of… Read more »
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May 8, 2023 - In Memoriam Horace Krever
The Honourable Horace Krever passed away on April 30. A graduate of the University of Toronto who then practiced law and taught at his alma mater, he was appointed a judge of the then Supreme Court of Ontario in 1975 and elevated to the Court of Appeal in 1986, where he served until retirement in… Read more »
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Ian Binnie
Ian Binnie on Wednesday, May 1st . Former Supreme Court of Canada judge Ian Binnie will talk to the Osgoode Society about four prominent litigators whose careers Canadian legal history from Confederation to the present: Oliver Mowat, W.N. Tilley, J.J. Robinette, and Ian Scott. REGISTER HERE FOR ZOOM LOGIN INFORMATION.
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Women’s Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites you to our inaugural student event — ‘Women’s Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective’. Professor Jim Phillips will moderate a panel discussion between The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Professor Patricia McMahon, and Professor Sonia Lawrence examining the history and modern implications of the Persons… Read more »
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May 17, 2021 - Philip Girard interviewed on Podcast
In this podcast, Greg Marchildon interviews Osgoode Society Associate Editor Philip Girard regarding A History of Law in Canada, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1866, published by the University of Toronto Press in 2018, of which he is the co-author along with Jim Phillips and Blake Brown. Girard explains the ways in which Canadian legal culture… 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 129 books, including our 2025 books, on a remarkably diverse range of topics in Canadian legal history,… Read more »
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Memoirs and Reflections
by The Hon. R. Roy McMurtry, published with the University of Toronto Press. In addition to his most important accomplishment, the founding of the Osgoode Society, Roy McMurtry recounts and reflects on his years as a criminal defence lawyer, attorney-general of Ontario, High Commissioner to the UK, and Chief Justice of Ontario. Along the way… Read more »
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The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
edited by Hamar Foster, Professor of Law, University of Victoria, Andrew Buck, Professor of Law, Australian Catholic University, Queensland, and Ben Berger, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School. Published with the University of British Columbia Press, 2008. In recent years Canadian legal historians have shown an increasing interest in imperial themes and the comparative legal… Read more »
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