85 Search Results for: Women%20Judges
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Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
by Dominique Clément, Professor of Sociology, University of Alberta, published by the University of British Columbia Press. 2014. One of the most profound changes to our law in the second half of the twentieth century was what is often termed the ‘rights revolution’. The same period also saw the rise of a plethora of administrative… Read more »
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Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905
by Shelley Gavigan, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School. Published with the University of British Columbia Press, 2012. Shortly after Confederation Canada acquired the territories formerly owned and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company. Among the formidable challenges brought by this massive land acquisition, the most notable was the task of reconciling the aboriginal peoples of… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI: British Columbia and the Yukon
edited by Hamar Foster and John Mclaren, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1995. This sixth volume in the distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the central theme in the history of British Columbia and the Yukon – law and order. In the early days of… Read more »
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Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk
edited by G. Blaine Baker & Jim Phillips. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1999. Collections of essays are usually organised around a particular theme. This book, which represents Canadian legal historians’ tribute to Professor Dick Risk, is, at first glance, something of an exception to that practice. The essays here cover subjects which range… Read more »
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Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context
edited by Eric Tucker, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Bruze Ziff and James Muir, Professors, University of Alberta Law School. Published with Irwin Law, 2012. Despite the huge strides made by Canadian legal history in recent decades, we do not know as much as we should about the law of property, a crucial aspect of… Read more »
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