(Source: The University of Toronto Press)
The University
of Toronto Press is publishing the first of two volumes on the legal history of
Canada.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This book is the
first of two volumes devoted to the history of law in Canada. This volume
begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s,
while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000.
The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors
and legal culture. The book assumes that since 1500 there have been three legal
systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times,
these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and
influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods.
The history of
law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic
process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law
guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by
the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously
exacerbated and mediated by inter-cultural exchange and conflict. These themes
are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including
family law, constitutional, commercial, land settlement and tenure, and
criminal.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jim Phillips is a professor in the
faculty of law at the University of Toronto.
Philip Girard is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
R. Blake Brown is a professor in the Department of History and Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University.
Philip Girard is a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
R. Blake Brown is a professor in the Department of History and Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University.
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