Essays in the History of Canadian Law

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.

Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History	p. 1
Criminal Justice: Law, Policy, and the Limits of the Criminal Sanction
Rape in the House of Commons: The Prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929	p. 33
Wardens and Prisoners: Aspects of Prison Culture in Ontario, 1874-1914	p. 67
'Perverts a Menace': The Development of the Criminal Sexual Psychopath Offence, 1948	p. 107
The Law of Rules: Prosecuting Railway Workers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario	p. 129
The Judiciary: Ideology, Legitimacy, and Politics
Politics, Promotion, and Professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Judicial Appointments	p. 169
'High above the Generality of the People': The Ideological Origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Circuit	p. 200
Judicial Scandal and the Culture of Patronage in Early Confederation, 1867-78	p. 222
Legal Thought and the Legal Profession: Contested Conceptions of Law and Lawyers
Strategic Benthamism: Rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through Criminal Law Codification, 1847-54	p. 257
The Rule of Law and Irish Whig Constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish Opposition' and the Volunteer Connection	p. 320
New Directions in Legal History - Private Law, International Law, Low Law, and Informal Law
Diplomacy, International Law, and Foreign Fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: Revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 Convention	p. 353
Social Workers, Courts, and the Implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69	p. 388
The David Fasken Estate: Estate Planning and Social History in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario	p. 410
Squatters' Rights and the Origins of Edmonton Settlement	p. 446
Contributors	p. 469
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