Recent publications in Canadian Legal History

Canadian Historical Review

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 236-257

  Phillips, Jim ^a  

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EID: 60950671963     PISSN: 00083755     EISSN: 17101093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/CHR.78.2.236     Document Type: Review

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1. D. Flaherty, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law, volume 1 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society 1981)
2. See also D. Flaherty, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law, volume 2 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society 1983)
3. For an assessment of these volumes and a comparison with other legal history work see D. Bell, 'The Birth of Canadian Legal History,' University of New Brunswick Law Journal 33 (1984): 312-318
4. R. W. Gordon, 'J. Willard Hurst and the Common Law Tradition in American Legal Historiography,' Law and Society Review 10 (1976): 325-333
5. For a recent Canadian example see J. Arnup, Middleton: The Beloved Judge (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society 1988)
6. The collection by D. Hay et al., Albion's Fatal Tree (London: Allen Lane 1975), was central to this new interest
7. For the importance of this and other work to approaches to legal history generally see D. Sugarman, 'Theory and Practice in Law and History,' in B. Fryer et al., eds., Law, State and Society (London: Croom Helm 1981)
8. See principally for Canada the work of Eric Tucker and Paul Craven. For the former, see Administering Danger in the Workplace: The Law and Politics of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, 1850-1914 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1990)
9. '"That Indefinite Area of Toleration": Criminal Conspiracy and Trade Unions in Ontario, 1837-1877,' Labour/Le Travail 27 (1991): 15-54
10. and 'The Faces of Coercion: The Legal Regulation of Labour Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1889,' Law and History Review 12 (1994): 277-340
11. For the latter, see An Impartial Umpire: Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900-1911 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1983)
12. See particularly C. Backhouse, Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada (Toronto: Women's Press and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History 1991)
13. P. Girard and R. Veinott, 'Married Women's Property Law in Nova Scotia, 1850-1910,' in J. Guildford and S. Morton, eds., Separate Spheres (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press 1994)
14. J.G. Snell, In the Shadow of the Law: Divorce in Canada, 1900-1939 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1991)
15. S. Harring, 'The Rich Men of the Country: Canadian Law in the Land of the Copper Inuit,' Ottawa Law Review 21 (1989) 1-64
16. P. Tennant, Aboriginal People and Politics: The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1989 (Vancouver: UBC Press 1990)
17. On other topics, see, inter alia, D.G. Bell, 'Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist New Brunswick,' University of New Brunswick Law Journal 31 (1982): 9-42
18. J.B. Cahill, 'Slavery and the Judges of Loyalist Nova Scotia,' University of New Brunswick Law Journal 43 (1994): 73-135
19. J.P.S. McLaren, 'The Early British Columbia Supreme Court and the 'Chinese Question': Echoes of the Rule of Law,' in W. Pue and D. Gibson, eds., Glimpses of Canadian Legal History (Winnipeg: Manitoba Legal Research Institute 1991)
20. See particularly G.B. Baker, 'The Reconstitution of Upper Canadian Legal Thought in the Late-Victorian Empire,' Law and History Review 3 (1985): 219-92
21. 'Legal Education in Upper Canada 1785-1889: A Study of the Role of the Law Society as Legal Educator,' in Flaherty, ed., Essays, volume 2
22. P. Romney, 'From Constitutionalism to Legalism: Trial by Jury, Responsible Government, and the Rule of Law in Canadian Political Culture,' Law and History Review 7 (1989): 121-174
23. R. Fraser, '"All the Liberties which Englishmen Possess": Order, Rights and Constitutionalism in Upper Canada,' in Fraser, ed., Provincial Justice: Upper Canadian Legal Portraits (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society 1992)
24. Perhaps the most sustained advocacy of this position in the Canadian literature is T. Loo, Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1994)
25. Other important work on Canadian legal culture includes P.V. Girard, 'Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture: Beamish Murdoch's Epitome of the Laws of Nova Scotia,' Law and History Review 11 (1993): 101-44
26. R.C.B. Risk and R. Vipond, 'Rights Talk in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century,' Law and History Review 14 (1996): 1-32
27. R.C.B. Risk, 'Constitutional Scholarship in the Late Nineteenth Century: Making Federalism Work,' University of Toronto Law Journal 46 (1996): 427-57
28. R. Vipond, Liberty and Community: Canadian Federalism and the Failure of the Constitution (Albany, ny: State University of New York Press 1991)
29. J. Willis, 'The McRuer Report: Lawyers' Values and Civil Servants' Values,' University of Toronto Law Journal 18 (1968): 351-360
30. See generally A.W. Rowe, 'Assimilation through Accommodation: Practice, Rhetoric and Decisions in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories, 1955-1972' (ll.m. thesis, University of Toronto 1990)
31. especially G.B. Baker, 'Law Practice and Statecraft in mid-Nineteenth Century Montreal: The Torrance-Morris Firm.'
32. See also P. Girard, 'The Roots of a Professional Renaissance: Lawyers in Nova Scotia, 1850-1910,' in Pue and Gibson, eds., Glimpses
33. and D.G. Bell, 'Paths to the Law in the Maritimes: The Bliss Brothers and Their Circle,' Nova Scotia Historical Review 8 (1988): 6-40
34. On aspects of this process, see G. Marchildon, 'International Corporate Law from a Maritime Base: The Halifax Firm of Henry, Harris and Cahan,' in Wilton, ed., Beyond the Law
35. Although, if used properly, particular cases can be immensely revealing: see, inter alia, C. Strange, 'Wounded Womanhood and Dead Men: Chivalry and the Trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davis,' in F. Iacovetta and M. Valverde, eds., Gender Conflicts: New Essays in Women's History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1992)
36. F. Iacovetta and K. Dubinsky, 'Murder, Womanly Virtue, and Motherhood: The Case of Angelina Napolitano,' Canadian Historical Review 72 (1991): 505-31
37. T. Loo, 'The Road from Bute Inlet: Crime and Colonial Identity in British Columbia,' in Phillips et al., eds., Essays, volume 5
38. See generally J. Phillips, 'Crime and Punishment in the Dominion of the North: Canada from New France to the Present,' in L. Knafla and C. Emsley, eds., Crime History and Histories of Crime: Studies in the Historiography of Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern History (Wesport, Conn.: Greenwood Press 1996)
39. Recent work in the area includes J. Weaver, Crimes, Constables and Courts: Order and Transgression in a Canadian City, 1816-1970 (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press 1995)
40. See also on the uses of the criminal law for overtly political purposes J.B. Wright and F.M. Greenwood, eds., Canadian State Trials: Law, Politics, and Security Measures, 1608-1837 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History 1996)
41. See, especially, Making Law, Order, and Authority, and 'Dan Cranmer's Potlatch: Law as Coercion, Symbol, and Rhetoric in British Columbia, 1884-1951,' Canadian Historical Review 73 (1992): 125-165
42. Winnipeg: Canadian Legal History Project and the Manitoba Legal Research Institute 1997. The essays that make up this work were originally published in the Manitoba Law Journal 23, 1-3 (1996). Page references given in this review are to the Manitoba Law Journal version