Prof. Jim Phillips has been elected an honorary fellow of the American Society for Legal History, the highest honour the Society bestows. Congratulations to our Editor-in-Chief! https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/jim-phillips-elected-honorary-fellow-american-society-legal-history  

Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips was recently named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. The official announcement reads: “Jim Phillips, Professor of Law and History, University of Toronto, is a leading figure in the field of Canadian legal history. Phillips has been an intellectual leader in the expansion of legal scholarship beyond traditional… Read more »

Zoé Bernicchia-Freeman, one of the Osgoode Society’s student ambassadors in 2023-2024, was awarded the Silver Medal at Osgoode Hall ’s convocation last week. Congratulations. Zoe will be articling in 2024-2025 and clerking at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2025-2026.

Fred Kaufman, a retired Judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, passed away in early January. Fred’s remarkable life, from fleeing Austria as a refugee from the Nazis to time in an interment camp in New Brunswick as an ‘enemy alien’ , to law school, law practice and the Court of Appeal is chronicled in… Read more »

The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Director, Professor Patricia McMahon, was featured in a Globe and Mail article on Saturday November 11th about the problems she and other historians are having with access to information requests to Library and Archives Canada. The article, and accompanying podcast, are available here- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the-decibel/article-canadas-broken-information-laws-keep-history-in-the-dark/  

CHRIS ENGLISH. The Osgoode Society notes with deep regret the passing of one of our authors, Christopher (Chris)  English, in St John’s on August 11, 2023. Chris was for many years a Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and a distinguished scholar of the history of France. In 1990, in the midst of… Read more »

Osgoode Society President Robert Sharpe was awarded the Order of Canada for his distinguished contributions to the advancement of law in Canada as both a judge and academic. Congratulations  Mr. President.

The Canadian Law and Society Association has chosen, as the best book published in 2022, Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914. This was one of our members’ books for 2022. Please join us in congratulating the authors.

The Honourable Horace Krever passed away on April 30. A graduate of the University of Toronto who then practiced law and taught at his alma mater, he was appointed a judge of the then Supreme Court of Ontario in 1975 and elevated to the Court of Appeal in 1986, where he served until retirement in… Read more »

In this podcast episode, Nicole O’Byrne speaks to Barry Wright about his book Canadian State Trials, Volume V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990, co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker. The book was published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by the University of Toronto Press in 2022. https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/podcast/wty/national-security-measures-political-trials-canadian-state-trials-1939-1990-with-barry-wright… Read more »