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  • Land and Freedom

    Law, Property Rights and the British Diaspora

    Edited by Andrew Buck, John McLaren, Nancy Wright ...
    Conflicts caused by competing concepts of property are the subject of this book that reshapes study of the relationship between law and society in Australasia and North America. Chapters analyse decisions made by governments and courts upon questions of policy and law in terms of their consequences for rights and models of personhood. Late twentieth-century decisions concerning native title in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Legal Histories of the British Empire

    Laws, Engagements and Legacies

    Edited by Shaunnagh Dorsett, John McLaren ...
    This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon

    Edited by Hamar Foster, John McLaren ...
    Series Book 6 - Essays in the History of Canadian Law
    This sixth volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law turns to the a central theme in the history of British Columbia and the Yukon - law and order. In the early days of British sovereignty, the frenzied activity of the fur trade and the gold rush, along with clashes between settlers and Natives, made law enforcement a difficult business. Later, although ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered

    British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900

    by John McLaren ...
    Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice, but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges' loyalty to the Crown, and on occasion removed or suspended those who were found politically subversive or personally difficult. Even ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Case of Valentine Shortis

    A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada

    by Martin Friedland ...
    Series series Heritage
    Two men were shot and killed in the office of the Montreal Cotton Company in Valleyfield, Quebec, on a night in 1895. A third victim, shot through the head, managed to survive. Charged with the murders was Valentine Shortis, a young Irish immigrant. His trial, the longest on record at the time in Canada, was played out against one of the most dramatic periods in Canadian political history. Before ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Memoirs and Reflections

    by Roy McMurtry ...
    From “the Kid” on the Varsity Blues football team to “the Chief” at Osgoode Hall, R. Roy McMurtry has had a remarkably varied and influential career. As reformist attorney general of Ontario, one of the architects of the agreement that brought about the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, high commissioner to the United Kingdom, and chief justice of Ontario, he made a large and enduring ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Court of Appeal for Ontario

    Defining the Right of Appeal in Canada, 1792-2013

    by Christopher Moore ...
    In Christopher Moore’s lively and engaging history of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he traces the evolution of one of Canada’s most influential courts from its origins as a branch of the lieutenant governor’s executive council to the post-Charter years of cutting-edge jurisprudence and national influence.Discussing the issues, personalities, and politics which have shaped Ontario’s highest ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Fragile Settlements

    Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

    by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla, Robert Foster ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Fragile Settlements compares the processes by which colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in south-west Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century. At the start of this period, there was an explosion of settler migration across the British Empire. In a humanitarian response to the unprecedented demand for land, Britain’s Colonial Office moved to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Essays in the History of Canadian Law

    Volume II

    Edited by David Flaherty ...
    Series Book 2 - Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    This volume is the second in the Essays in the History of Canadian Law series, designed to illustrate the wide possibilities for research and writing in Canadian legal history. In combination, these volumes reflect the wide-ranging scope of legal history as an intellectual discipline andencourage others to pursue important avenues of inquiry on all aspects of our legal past.Topics include the role ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Spying on Canadians

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Security Service and the Origins of the Long Cold War

    by Gregory S. Kealey ...
    Award winning author Gregory S. Kealey’s study of Canada’s security and intelligence community before the end of World War II depicts a nation caught up in the Red Scare in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and tangled up with the imperial interests of first the United Kingdom and then the United States.Spying on Canadians brings together over twenty five years of research and writing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Courted and Abandoned

    Seduction in Canadian Law

    by Patrick Brode ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    A pregnancy outside of marriage was a traumatic event in frontier Canada, one that had profound legal implications, not only for the mother, but also for the woman's family, the alleged father, and for the entire community. Patrick Brode examines the history of the 'heartbalm' torts in nineteenth-century Canada – breaches of duty leading to liability for damages for seduction, breach of promise of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015

    Edited by Lori Chambers ...
    Series series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
    Lori Chamber's fascinating study explores the legal history of adoption in Ontario since the passage of the first statute in 1921. This volume explores a wide range of themes and issues in the history of adoption including: the reasons for the creation of statutory adoption, the increasing voice of unmarried fathers in newborn adoption, the reasons for movement away from secrecy in adoption, the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD