Wednesday, October 16: Jim Reynolds, Vancouver Lawyer. Jim Reynolds will talk about aboriginal law and Canadian history, subjects which were at the centre of a more than 40-year legal practice representing First Nations, especially the Musqueam of Vancouver. He has written a number of books, including Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction (Vancouver: UBC Press/Purich, 2018)… Read more »
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Ian Radforth
Ian Radforth is professor emeritus in the Department of History, University of Toronto, where he taught Canadian history for thirty years. He is the author of two books published since his retirement: Jeannie’s Demise: Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto and Expressive Acts: Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto. He is currently writing a… Read more »
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Jim Reynolds
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September 3, 2024 - Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Jim Phillips, Named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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 »
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November 13, 2024 - Two Osgoode Society books have recently been recognized in book awards administered by national legal organizations
Lori Cambers and Joan Sangster, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law Volume XII: New Essays in Women’s History (2023) was an honourable mention in the category of collective works awarded by the Fondaton du Barreau du Québec. Jim Philips, Philip Girard and R. Blake Brown, eds., A History of Law in Canada Volume II: Law… Read more »
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2024 – 2025 Events
Our Speaker Series will resume on Wednesday, February 19, 5.30 – Former Supreme Court of Canada Judge Rosalie Abella in conversation with Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips. Registration material to come. Speakers to Date in 2024 September 18, 2024 – Adam Dodek, spoke on his recent book Heenan Blaikie: The Making and Unmaking of a… Read more »
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OVERVIEW This website is operated by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Throughout the site, the terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. The Osgoode Society offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance… Read more »
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Benjamin Berger
Benjamin Berger is Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Socio-Legal Studies Program at York University. He was previously at the University of Victoria, where he was an associate professor in the Faculty of Law and held a cross appointment in the Department of… Read more »
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Beverley Boissery
Beverley Boissery is a independent historian and an author. She has written eleven books ranging from academic history to young adult fiction. In the 1960s she worked as an elementary school teacher and then went back to school in the 1970s to earn her Bachelor’s degree and Doctorate. She has been a scholar-in-residence at Regent… Read more »
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Judy Fudge
Judy Fudge is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, U.K. She was previously Landsdowne Chair in Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She joined the University of Victoria in 2007 from Osgoode Hall Law School where she began her career. She has published extensively in employment and labour law in… Read more »
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Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray is one of Canada’s best-known writers, and author of ten acclaimed books of literary non-fiction. Born in Sheffield, England, and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, she began her writing career in England as a magazine editor and newspaper columnist. After coming to Canada in 1979, she worked as… Read more »