THE DIRECTORS OF THE OSGOODE SOCIETY and University of Toronto Press, University of British Columbia Press and the Canadian Tax Foundation REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT A RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE THE PUBLICATION OF Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm by Prof. Adam Dodek Deadly Swindle: An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario… Read more »

On Wednesday November 30 at 5:30****PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER 16 TO NOVEMBER 30***  – SCC Justice Mahmud Jamal discusses legal history’s role in Supreme Court decision-making in a fireside chat with Jim Phillips and others. This event has been approved by the Law Society of Ontario for 1 hour and 15… Read more »

THE DIRECTORS OF THE OSGOODE SOCIETY and University of Toronto Press , University of British Columbia Press and Irwin Law REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT A RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE THE PUBLICATION OF Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume XII: New Perspectives on Gender and the Law by Lori Chambers and Joan… Read more »

Our speaker series resumes on March 12th with Eric Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross talking about their forthcoming Osgoode Society book Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution.  Douglas Sanderson and Andrew Stobo Sniderman will talk about their 2022 book Valley of the Birdtail : An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation,… Read more »

Join us for a Zoom discussion with The Honourable Ian Binnie. This event  is for registered participants only. Upon registration you will be sent a link for Zoom.

Join us for a Zoom discussion with The Hon. Harry LaForme. This even is for registered participants only. Upon registration you will be sent link for Zoom information.

Professor Barrington Walker, Department of History and Associate Vice-President, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Sir Wilfrid Laurier University, will discuss the relationship between his legal historical work and contemporary education and advocacy at a time when we are increasingly seeing anti-Black racism as a systemic rather than an individual problem. This event is for registered participants… Read more »

Professor Allan Bartley, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, will speak about his recently published book (2020) on The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom. This event is for registered participants only. Upon registration you will be sent Zoom information. Please Note: This event has been approved… Read more »

Join us for a Zoom discussion with Professor Daniel Broyld, Department of History, Central Connecticut State University. This discussion is on the topic of  ‘Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery.’ This event is registered participants only.  Upon registration you will be sent a link with Zoom information…. Read more »