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A History of Canadian Legal Thought : Collected Essays /

Written over more than two decades, and covering the immediate post-Confederation period to the 1960s, these essays reveal a distinctive Canadian tradition of thinking about the nature and functions of law, one which Risk clearly takes pride in and urges us to celebrate.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Risk, R. C. B., 1936- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Otros Autores: Phillips, Jim, 1954- (Editor , author of introduction.), Baker, G. Blaine (Editor , author of introduction.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ontario : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The classical age : Canadian legal thought in the late nineteenth century
  • 1. Constitutional scholarship in the late nineteenth century : making federalism work
  • 2. A.H.F. Lefroy : common law thought in late-nineteenth-century Canada
  • on burying one's grandfather
  • 3. Rights talk in Canada in the late nineteenth century : 'the good sense and right feeling of the people'
  • 4. Blake and liberty
  • 5. John Skirving Ewart : the legal thought
  • 6. Sir William R. Meredith, CJO : the search for authority
  • pt. 2. The challenge of modernity : Canadian legal thought in the 1930s
  • 7. Volume one of the journal : a tribute and a belated review
  • 8. The scholars and the constitution : POGG and the Privy Council.