Essays in the history of Canadian law A tribute to Peter N. Oliver
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0802099114
ISBN 13
9780802099112
DDC
349.71
Category
Osgoode Society
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Volume
10
Pages
489 pages
Subject
Canada
Series Name
Abstract
"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." - Voila
Description
Content:
Foreword -- Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History -- PART ONE: Criminal Justice: Law, Policy, and the Limits of the Criminal Sanction -- 1 Rape in the House of Commons: The Prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 -- 2 Wardens and Prisoners: Aspects of Prison Culture in Ontario, 1874-1914 -- 3 'Perverts a Menace': The Development of the Criminal Sexual Psychopath Offence, 1948 -- 4 The Law of Rules: Prosecuting Railway Workers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- PART TWO: The Judiciary: Ideology, Legitimacy, and Politics -- 5 Politics, Promotion, and Professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Judicial Appointments -- 6 'High above the Generality of the People': The Ideological Origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Circuit -- 7 Judicial Scandal and the Culture of Patronage in Early Confederation, 1867-78 -- PART THREE: Legal Thought and the Legal Profession: Contested Conceptions of Law and Lawyers -- 8 Strategic Benthamism: Rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through Criminal Law Codification, 1847-54 -- 9 The Rule of Law and Irish Whig Constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish Opposition, ' and the Volunteer Connection -- PART FOUR: New Directions in Legal History -- Private Law, International Law, Low Law, and Informal Law -- 10 Diplomacy, International Law, and Foreign Fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: Revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 Convention -- 11 Social Workers, Courts, and the Implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 -- 12 The David Fasken Estate: Estate Planning and Social History in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario -- 13 Squatters' Rights and the Origins of Edmonton Settlement -- Contributors.
Foreword -- Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History -- PART ONE: Criminal Justice: Law, Policy, and the Limits of the Criminal Sanction -- 1 Rape in the House of Commons: The Prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 -- 2 Wardens and Prisoners: Aspects of Prison Culture in Ontario, 1874-1914 -- 3 'Perverts a Menace': The Development of the Criminal Sexual Psychopath Offence, 1948 -- 4 The Law of Rules: Prosecuting Railway Workers in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Ontario -- PART TWO: The Judiciary: Ideology, Legitimacy, and Politics -- 5 Politics, Promotion, and Professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Judicial Appointments -- 6 'High above the Generality of the People': The Ideological Origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Circuit -- 7 Judicial Scandal and the Culture of Patronage in Early Confederation, 1867-78 -- PART THREE: Legal Thought and the Legal Profession: Contested Conceptions of Law and Lawyers -- 8 Strategic Benthamism: Rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through Criminal Law Codification, 1847-54 -- 9 The Rule of Law and Irish Whig Constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish Opposition, ' and the Volunteer Connection -- PART FOUR: New Directions in Legal History -- Private Law, International Law, Low Law, and Informal Law -- 10 Diplomacy, International Law, and Foreign Fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: Revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 Convention -- 11 Social Workers, Courts, and the Implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 -- 12 The David Fasken Estate: Estate Planning and Social History in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario -- 13 Squatters' Rights and the Origins of Edmonton Settlement -- Contributors.
Biblio Notes
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