Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Does law matter? The new colonial legal history / Benjamin L. Berger, Hamar Foster, and A.R. Buck
  • Libel and the colonial administration of justice in Upper Canada and New South Wales, c. 1825-30 / Barry Wright
  • The limits of despotic government at sea / Bruce Kercher
  • One chief, two chiefs, red chiefs, blue chiefs: newcomer perspectives on indigenous leadership in Rupert's land and the North-West Territories / Janna Promislow
  • Rhetoric, reason, and the rule of law in early colonial New South Wales / Ian Holloway, Simon Bronitt, and John Williams
  • Sometimes persuasive authority : Dominion case law and English judges, 1895-1970 / Jeremy Finn
  • Courts, communities, and communication : the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on circuit, 1816-50 / Jim Phillips and Philip Girard
  • Fame and infamy: two men of the law in colonial New Zealand / David V. Williams
  • Moving in an "eccentric orbit" : the independence of Judge Algernon Sidney Montagu in Van Diemen's land 1833-47 / Stefan Petrow
  • "Not in keeping with the traditions of the Cariboo Courts" : courts and community identity in Northeastern British Columbia, 1920-50 / Jonatan Swainger
  • Starkie's adventures in North America : the emergence of libel law / Lyndsay M. Campbell
  • The law of dower in New South Wales and the United States : a study in comparative legal history / A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright
  • Contesting prohibition and the Constitution in 1850s New Brunswick / Greg Marquis
  • From humble prayers to legal demands : the Cowichan petition of 1909 and the British Columbia Indian land question / Hamar Foster and Benjamin L. Berger
  • Afterword: Looking from the past into the future / John McLaren.