Essays in the history of Canadian law. Volume IX, Two Islands: Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island / edited by Christopher English.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phillips, Jim, editor.

McMurtry, R. Roy, 1932-2024, editor.

Saywell, John T., 1929-2011, editor.

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Series:

Essays in the history of Canadian law ; v. 11.

Essays in the History of Canadian Law ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oliver, Peter, 1939-.

Oliver, Peter.

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Law--Canada--History.

Law.

Canada.

Genre:

Festschriften.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written to honour the life and work of the late Peter N. Oliver, the distinguished historian and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History from 1979-2006, this collection assembles the finest legal scholars to reflect on the issues in and development of the field of legal history in Canada.Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris. The introduction also provides insight into the history of the Osgoode Society and of Oliver's essential role in it, along with an illuminating analysis of the Society's publications program, which produced sixty-six books during his tenure.A fitting tribute to one of the foremost legal historians, this tenth volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law is a significant contribution to the discipline to which Oliver devoted so much.

Contents:

Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History / Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell

Rape in the House of Commons: the prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 / Constance Backhouse

Wardens and prisoners: aspects of prison culture in Ontario, 1974-1914 / Joseph Ashley Berkovits

'Perverts a menace': the development of the criminal sexual psychopath offence, 1948 / Patrick Brode

The law of rules: prosecuting railway workers in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario / Paul Craven

Politics, promotion, and professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's judicial appointments / Philip Girard

'High above the generality of the people': the ideological origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court circuit / Jim Phillips

Judicial scandal and the culture of patronage in early confederation, 1867-78 / Jonathan Swainger

Strategic Benthamism: rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through criminal law codification, 1847-54 / G. Blaine Baker

The rule of law and Irish whig constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish opposition, ' and the volunteer connection / John McLaren

Diplomacy, international law, and foreign fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 convention / Rainer Baehre

Social workers, courts, and the implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 / Lori Chambers

The David Fasken estate: estate planning and social history in early twentieth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer

Squatters' rights and the origins of Edmonton settlement / Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4426-9320-7

OCLC:

979968866