Professor Heidi Bohaker, of the University of Toronto, will discuss her book Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance. This study of Anishinaabe law before the Europeans is the Osgoode Society’s members’ selection for 2020. On registration you will be sent the link for the event.

This is a reminder that The Osgoode Society will hold its  Annual General Meeting of Members on November 30th at 5:30 pm via Zoom. The Osgoode Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: The Osgoode Society Annual Meeting Time: Nov 30, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/93480886008?pwd=TDRNSkhpVG5NS1Jhd3N1WU41T3B0UT09 Meeting ID:… Read more »

We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk. Nina Reid-Maroney,  Professor of History, Western University, titled  ‘Vigilance:  Black Activism and Chatham’s Demarest Rescue, 1858.’

We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk. Jim Walker, Professor of History, Waterloo University: ‘Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada.’

Listing as of April 3, 2020 Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, London, Ontario, June 1 – 3, has been cancelled American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Chicago,  November 11-14, 2020 . Consult the ASLH website – aslh.net. 39th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, Auckland, 9th-12th December 2020 Call for Papers-“One Empire, Many Colonies,… Read more »

Join us for an evening of new insights into Canadian legal history. This event will explore the work of our 2019 McMurtry Fellowship recipients. Anna Jarvis, Black labour, loyalism, and the law in late eighteenth-century British North America In 1783 five siblings of the Jarvis family of Stamford, Connecticut, were forced to flee the City of New… Read more »

Join us for an evening of new insights into Canadian Legal History. This evening will feature the current holders of the Society’s R. Roy McMurtry Fellowships in Canadian Legal History. Doctoral students Filippo Spossini (University of Toronto) and Anna Jarvis (York University) will discuss their research. Come and hear about civil commitment for insanity in… Read more »

THE OSGOODE SOCIETY FOR CANADIAN LEGAL HISTORY NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF MEMBERS & AWARDS CEREMONY On Wednesday, June 19th, 2019, the Society will hold its Annual Meeting in the Museum Room, 2nd Floor, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, beginning at 5.30 o’clock in the afternoon. AGENDA  Approval of the Minutes from the… Read more »