WORKSHOP: Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop, Fall Term 2019-2020

(Source: Canadian Legal History Blog) 

Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we learned of the Osgoode Society’s upcoming workshop series.

OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP, 2019-2020:

FALL TERM 2019

Wednesday September 11: Nancy Wright, University of Victoria: “The Laphroaig
Leasehold:  Popular Interpretations of Feudal Tenures.”

Wednesday September 25: Jim Phillips, University of Toronto: ‘The Canadian
Court System, 1867-1914’

Wednesday October 9 – Yom Kippur

Tuesday October 15: Note the Tuesday. Donal Coffey, Max Planck Institute:
‘Newfoundland and Dominion Status.’

Wednesday October 30  (new date): Philip Girard, Osgoode Hall Law School: ‘The
Contrasting Fates of French-Canadian and Indigenous Constitutionalism: British
North America, 1763-1867.’

Wednesday November 6: Eric Adams, University of Alberta: ‘Constitutional
Wrongs: A Legal History of Japanese Canadians’

Wednesday November 13 (new date): Joseph Kary, Kary and Kwan: Sonderkommando in
Canada: Montreal's first World War II War Crimes Trial, 1951-1956

Wednesday November 27: Patricia McMahon, Torys: ‘Radioactive: The Life and
Lies of Boris Pregel’

(Source: Canadian Legal History Blog)

BOOK: Jim PHILLIPS, Philip GIRARD, and R. BLAKE BROWN, A History of Law in Canada, Vol. 1 - Beginnings to 1866 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018). ISBN 9781487504632, $90.00

(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. 

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