Christopher Moore's History News

I was an expert witness last winter. There was a case out west in which section 121 of the British North America Act 1867 was at issue, an...

Speaking of the Supreme Court:  historian William Wicken reports at Active History on his experience as an expert witness on the case defi...

The perk of being a member of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is you get a handsome book in the mail once in a year.  This...

It's reassuring that the Toronto jury in the trial of the alleged terrorists who are accused of planning to blow up CN tracks and train...

Jason Kenney's nasty attempt to intimidate a lawyer who criticized him by registering a complaint with the law society seems to be ...

The United States Supreme Court, in declining to permit Meher Arar to seek redress from the American agents who sent him to Syria to be tort...

Just yesterday I happened to be noting Donald Songer's impressive new study of the Supreme Court of Canada. Meanwhile the Supreme Court...

Speaking of legal history, Irwin Law has out a new title, The Promise and Perils of Law , a collections of essays in legal history edited by...

Donald Songer, an American political scientist, recently published The Transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada: An Empirical Examinati...

In 1967 a Canadian was jailed indefinitely for admitting to police he was gay, and the Supreme Court upheld the conviction.

Lively comment and discussion at slaw, a blog about law and technology.

The Algonkian language family includes most First Nations languages in the boreal forest region of Canada, from the Atlantic Coast pretty mu...