Downtown last night to attend the annual book launch of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, "the most successful legal history society in the common law world," as Editor-in-Chief Jim Phillips never misses a chance to say. Pretty good evidence he has, too: 130+ books in Canadian legal history published in not quite fifty years. Four more this year, and a big crowd of lawyers, judges, law profs, and historians to salute the society's four new books and their authors. I'm just copying a big slab from the society's website below.
Robert Sharpe, My Life in the Law: Lawyer, Scholar, Judge
University of Toronto Press. As the title suggests, this book is a personal reflection on Robert Sharpe’s long, varied and influential career as a lawyer, scholar and judge, which incudes a decade as the President of the Osgoode Society.
Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution
University of British Columbia Press. Eric Adams is Professor of Law at the University of Alberta, Jordan Stanger-Ross is Professor of History at the University of Victoria.
Carolyn Strange, Fatal Confession: A Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton Case
University of British Columbia Press. Carolyn Strange is Professor of History at the Australian National University. In the mid-1950s most Canadians still believed that murder merited the death penalty.
Jim Phillips, I Did Not Commit Adultery: Marital Conflict and the Law in Ontario in the 1870s
University of Toronto Press. Jim Phillips is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of History and the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies.
