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My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures

2007

by Martin Friedland, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Professor Martin Friedland has been involved in many areas of legal research and law reform in his career, and the Osgoode Society is very pleased to be able to publish his account of that involvement, especially as his public service includes many years as a director of the Society. This book examines his contributions and sets them in the broader context of public policy making across a range of issues. These include various aspects of criminal justice reform, securities regulation, judicial independence and accountability, anti-terrorism policy, and much more.

Reviews of My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures

Martin Friedland's ...book ... is both a personal memoir and a lively review of much that has happened in Canadian legal policy during the  last forty years. Most of My Life in Crime explores the many public policy inquiries to which Friedland has contributed over the years. He advised on the regulation of gambling and other questions of public morality. He did one of the early studies of gun control. He reported  on regulation of the securities industry. He contributed to studies of  the structure of the courts, legal aid, national security law,  wrongful conviction, and military justice reform.... Any lawyer or student interested in these issues will find much of value in  Friedland's survey of each and may be surprised at how lively and  engaging Friedland's narratives of them are. Throughout, he mixes the public policy story with a funny, upbeat, unpretentious autobiography  that testifies to his myriad friendships, his relentless enthusiasm for new experience, his gift for team building and, it seems, his unfailingly sunny outlook. Christopher Moore, Law Times, 7 July 2008
All in all, My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures by Martin L. Friedland is a wonderful autobiography of an individual who has accomplished much and who has observed, studied and commented upon the critical issues of the last half-century with aplomb, insight and becoming modesty. Gilles Renaud, Criminal Law Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2008.

Reviews have also appeared in the following publications:

  • Roderick A. Macdonald, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 100, 2009.
  • Ed Ratushny, Advocates' Society Journal, Vol. 28, 2009.
  • J.H. Galloway, Ontario History, Vol. 100, 2008.

Martin Friedland

Martin Friedland, C.C., Q.C., is University Professor and James M. Tory Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1960 and received the Treasurer’s Medal. Professor Friedland has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including the Canadian Association of Law Teachers… Read more »

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Contents

Foreword vii
Preface ix

Prologue 3
1. Legal Education 26
2. Articling and the Bar Ads 42
3. Cambridge and Double Jeopardy 54
4. The Enforcement of Morality 67
5. More Double Jeopardy 80
6. Detention before Trial 91
7. Legal Aid 109
8. Criminal Courts 120
9. Securities Regulation 138
10. Machinery of Law Reform 155
11. The Law Reform Commission of Canada 170
12. Access to the Law 182
13. Deaning and the University 193
14. Gun Control 216
15. National Security 234
16. More National Security – Terrorism 254
17. Codification of the Criminal Law 268
18. The Charter 280
19. The Trials of Israel Lipski 299
20. The Case of Valentine Shortis 312
21. The Death of Old Man Rice 326
22. The Frailty of the Criminal Process – Some Observations 340
23. Sanctions and Rewards in the Legal System 353
24. Borderline Justice and Other Studies of Law and Society 368
25. A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability 382
26. Controlling Misconduct in the Military 402
27. Writing the History of the University of Toronto 419
28. Epilogue 433

Notes on Sources 441
Publications and Government Work of Martin L. Friedland 467
Index 473