Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History / Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell
  • Rape in the House of Commons: the prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 / Constance Backhouse
  • Wardens and prisoners: apsects of prison culture in Ontario, 1974-1914 / Jospeh Ashley Berkovits
  • 'Perverts a menace': the development of the criminal sexual psychopath offence, 1948 / Patrick Brode
  • The law of rules: prosecuting railway workers in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario / Paul Craven
  • Politics, promotion, and professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's judicial appointments / Philip Girard
  • 'High above the generality of the people': the ideological origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court circuit / Jim Phillips
  • Judicial scandal and the culture of patronage in early confederation, 1867-78 / Jonathan Swainger
  • Strategic Benthamism: rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through criminal law codification, 1847-54 / G. Blaine Baker
  • The rule of law and Irish whig constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish opposition, ' and the volunteer connection / John McLaren
  • Diplomacy, international law, and foreign fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 convention / Rainer Baehre
  • Social workers, courts, and the implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 / Lori Chambers
  • The David Fasken estate: estate planning and social history in early twentieth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer
  • Squatters' rights and the origins of Edmonton settlement / Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward.