Essays in the History of Canadian Law : a Tribute to Peter N. Oliver.

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Phillips, J.
Otros Autores: McMurtry, R. Roy, Saywell, John T., McMurtry, Roy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Essays in the History of Canadian Law.
Temas:
Law > Canada > History.
Droit > Canada > Histoire.
Law
Canada
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • 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.

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