On March 20, 2025, the Law Society of Ontario announced that 6 people have been awarded the Law Society Medal for 2025. They include Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips. The citation reads: Professor Jim Phillips: is a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of History, and a… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume IX, Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island
edited by Christopher English, Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2005. Voices from the East beyond the Northumberland and Cabot Straits. This volume of essays on the legal histories of Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland opens with innovative essays on the historiography of two ‘island’ jurisdictions of Atlantic… Read more »
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Jim Phillips
Jim Phillips is Professor of Law, History and Criminology at the University of Toronto, and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He was law clerk to Madame Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada (1987-1988) before joining the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on British imperial history… Read more »
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Philip Girard
Philip Girard is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. From 1984 until 2013 he was a Professor of Law, History and Canadian Studies, and University Research Professor at Dalhousie University. He is also Associate Editor of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He was law clerk to Mr. Justice W.Z. Estey… Read more »
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March 21, 2025 - Editor -in-Chief JimPhillips awarded the Law Society Medal for 2025
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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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Conferences
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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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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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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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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The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry
R. Roy McMurtry,1932-2024, was the former chief justice of Ontario (1996-2007) and Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom (1985-1988). He is counsel at Gowlings. He was first elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1975 after practicing as a trial lawyer for 17 years, and served as attorney-general under Premier William Davis. Mr. McMurtry founded… Read more »
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