Podcast: Time Immemorial The Osgoode Society is pleased to announce that we are sponsoring Time Immemorial, a series of podcasts which explore episodes of Canadian legal history. The podcasts are researched and written by two of our members, Preston Lim and Gregory Ringkamp. For a list of those currently available see below. We will place all episodes of Time… Read more »
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2025 Events
Our speaker series resumes on March 12th will Eric Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross talking about their forthcoming Osgoode Society book Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. We will have three other speakers in April and May: Oral History Programme Director Professor Patricia McMahon, Wednesday, April 16 Ontario Superior Court judge Rita Jean Maxwell, Wednesday, April 30 Douglas… Read more »
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Student Ambassador Programme
The Osgoode Society has a Student Ambassador Programme at each of the Toronto law schools. Student Ambassadors organize periodic legal history events to promote the Society and subject to interested colleagues. The events also give the students the opportunity to connect with the lawyers and judges who comprise the Society’s directors. In October 2023 the… Read more »
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Oral History Program
The Osgoode Society’s Oral History Program is the world’s largest oral history program dedicated to legal history. Since 1979, the Society has conducted more than 730 interviews and deposited over 100,000 pages of transcripts in the Archives of Ontario. Interview subjects include lawyers, judges, politicians, and members of the police services. Interview documentation consists of… Read more »
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Hamar Foster
Professor Foster joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in 1978. He was promoted to Professor in 1993 and was Associate Dean from 1998 to 2000. Before joining the Faculty of Law, he was a Commonwealth Scholar and Woodrow Wilson Fellow from 1970 to 1971, and served as a law clerk to the Chief… Read more »
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Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
by Lesley Erickson, Independent Historian and Researcher, Vancouver. Published with UBC Press, 2011. The history of crime and punishment is one of the principal lenses through which historians of the law investigate the relationship between the law in the books and the ‘law in action,’ and the uses of law to regulate relations among social… Read more »
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An Evening of Canadian Legal History with SCC Justice Mahmud Jamal. SCC Justice Mahmud Jamal discusses legal history’s role in Supreme Court decision-making in a fireside chat. Approved for 1 Hour and 15 Minutes Professionalism Hours
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 »
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The Law of the Land: The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada
by Greg Taylor, Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 2008. The Torrens system of land titles registration was introduced to what is now British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century, and later spread to the rest of western Canada and to Ontario. In telling the story of the various… Read more »
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Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario
by Lori Chambers, Professor, Department of History and Women’s Studies, Lakehead University. Published with the University of Toronto Press, 1997. Married Women and Property Law in Victorian Ontario, by Professor Lori Chambers, Lakehead University, is a fascinating account of gender relationships in nineteenth-century Ontario as revealed through a series of laws which reflected Victorian attitudes to… Read more »
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The Massey Murder: A Maid, her Master, and the Trial that Shocked a Nation
by Charlotte Gray, Independent Historian, published with Harper Collins, 2013. $25.00. In 1915 Carrie Davies, an 18-year old servant girl in the home of Charles (Bert) Massey, scion of the famous Massey family, shot and killed her employer as he entered his house after work. Remarkably, she was acquitted, and award winning popular historian Charlotte… Read more »