Susan Lewthwaite

Susan Lewthwaite is now retired. She worked previously as the Research Coordinator at the Law Society of Upper Canada Archives, and as an instructor at Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, and at Ryerson University

 

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Books

Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume V – Crime and Criminal Justice (Toronto: Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1994), pp. 586 (editor with Tina Loo and Jim Phillips). Second edition printed in 2008.

Chapters in Osgoode Society Books

‘Ethelbert Lionel Cross: Toronto’s First Black Lawyer’ in Barrington Walker, ed., The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (Toronto: Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press,  2012), pp. 49-84.

‘Rebellion Trials Sources in Ontario Archives’ in F. M. Greenwood, B. Wright, eds., Canadian State Trials II: Rebellion and Invasion in the Canadas, 1837-1839 (Toronto: Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2002) pp. 452-459.

‘Introduction’ in Jim Phillips, Tina Loo, and Susan Lewthwaite, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume V – Crime and Criminal Justice (Toronto: Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1994), pp. 3-16 (with Tina Loo and Jim Phillips).

‘Violence, Law and Community in Rural Upper Canada’ in Jim Phillips, Tina Loo, and Susan Lewthwaite, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume V – Crime and Criminal Justice (Toronto: Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 1994), pp. 353-86.

Other Legal History Publications

‘Pre-Trial Examination in Upper Canada’ in Greg T. Smith, Allyson N. May, Simon Devereaux, eds., Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J. M. Beattie (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 85-103.

Law and Authority in Upper Canada, the Justices of the Peace in the Newcastle District, 1803-1840, PhD Thesis, University of Toronto, 2000.