University of Toronto
Séminaire du Toronto Legal History Group
Programme 2009-2010
Toronto Legal History Group
Schedule, 2009-10
Toronto Legal History Group: présentation
The Toronto Legal History group is an informal evening seminar that meets 8-10 times a year. Participants are graduate students and faculty in law and history from U of T, York, McMaster and other institutions, as well as law students. All law students with an interest in legal history are welcome. See this year's Legal History seminar schedule (infra).
If you would like to be put on the mailing list and to receive the papers, please send an email to j.phillips@utoronto.ca.
Past speakers (infra) have included:
- David Sugarman, University of Lancaster, on the Pinochet case.
- Bob Gordon, Yale University, on Moral and Economic Regulation.
- John Beattie, University of Toronto, on the Bow Street Runners.
- Mark Walters, Queen's, on early conceptions of aboriginal title.
- Karen Pearlston, Osgoode Hall Law School, on Coverture and the Feme Sole Trader in England.
- John Weaver, McMaster University, on Steyntje and Her Children: A Slave’s Pursuit of Freedom in the Cape Town Courts and before the Privy Council;
Programme 2009-2010
- Sept. 16 - Almos Tassonyi, Senior Economist, Government of Ontario: Good Housekeeping: The Imposition of the Hard Budget Constraint on Municipalities in Ontario in the Great Depression.
- Sept. 30 - Simon Stern, University of Toronto: The Origins of the Reasonable Person.
- Oct. 14 - Allan Greer, McGill University: Commons and Enclosure in John Locke's America
- Oct. 21 - Robert Gordon, Yale University: Do Lawyers Promote the Rule of Law?
- Nov. 4 - Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto: Tapping Reeve and the Litchfield Law School: A Pushy Pedagogy and Married Women's Property Rights.
- Nov. 18 - Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University: African Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1850-1960.
- Dec. 2 - Michael Marrus, University of Toronto: Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s.
- Jan. 13 - John Beattie, University of Toronto: Detection: The Bow Street Runners at Work.
- Jan. 27 - Lyndsay Campbell, University of Calgary: Through American Eyes: Questions and Themes Concerning Mid-19th-Century Upper Canadian Legal Institutions.
- Feb. 10 - Jeremy Martin and Jim Phillips, University of Toronto: Making Legal History: Manitoba Fisheries v. The Queen.
- Feb. 17 - Reading Week
- Feb. 24 - David Steeves, Independent Scholar: The Daniel Sampson case and Jury Selection in the 1930s.
- March 10 - Paul Craven, York University: Three Ships: Poverty, Paternalism and Politics at Mid-Century.
- March 24 - Robert Steinfeld, University of Buffalo: "The Early Anti-Majoritarian Rationale for American Judicial Review".
- April 7 - Frank Luce, Osgoode Hall Law School: Labour Justice and 'rule by law': Brazil's Dictatorship, 1964-1985.
- April 14 or 21 - Carolyn Strange, Australian National University: TBA
Pratique
All sessions are in the Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House, starting at 6.30. All students are welcome.
Séminaires des années antérieures 2003-2009
Toronto Legal History Group: Past Years 2003-2009
2008-09
- Sept. 23 - Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School, ‘Make a Better Indian of Him:’ Indian Policy and Criminal Law in the North-West Territories, 1876-1903.
- Oct. 7 - Greg Taylor, Monash University, Melbourne, How The Torrens System Got To Canada.
- Oct. 22 - Nick Rogers, York University, Theatres of Justice in the London [Gordon] riots of 1780.
- Nov. 5 - Allan Greer, McGill University, Commons and Enclosure in John Locke's America
- Nov. 18 - Doug Harris, University of British Columbia, Condominium: The Rise of Property in the City.
- Dec. 3 - Jim Phillips and Brad Miller, University of Toronto, Colonial Politics and the Judiciary in Nova Scotia’s Age of Reform, c. 1825-1841.
2006-2007
- Sept. 20 - Karen Macfarlane, York University, The practice of trials per medietatem linguae in Eighteenth-Century England.
- Oct. 4 - Eric Tucker, Osgoode Hall Law School, Recurring Dilemmas: The History of Shareholder and Director Liability for Workers' Wages.
- Oct. 18 - Julia Croome, Jim Phillips, and Christian Vernon, University of Toronto, Reformers, Tories, Judges (and Coal Miners): The Judiciary in Nova Scotia Politics, 1828-1842.
- Nov. 1 - Eric Adams, University of Toronto, Fighting for Freedom: Canadian Constitutional Thought During the Second World War.
- Nov. 15 - John McLaren, University of Victoria, Men of Principle or Ratbags? Judicial Independence and Disciplining of Colonial Judges in the 19th Century British Empire - or A Funny Way to Run an Empire!
- Nov. 22 - Kelly De Luca, Columbia University
- Dec. 6 - Myra Tawfik, University of Windsor, Canadian Copyright Law in the Nineteenth Century.
2005-2006
- Sept. 23 - Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School, 'Make a Better Indian of Him:' Indian Policy and Criminal Law in the North-West Territories, 1876-1903.
- Oct. 7 - Greg Taylor, Monash University, Melbourne, How The Torrens System Got To Canada.
- Oct. 22 - Nick Rogers, York University, Theatres of Justice in the London [Gordon] riots of 1780.
- Nov. 5 - Allan Greer, McGill University, Commons and Enclosure in John Locke's America.
- Nov. 18 - Doug Harris, University of British Columbia, Condominium: The Rise of Property in the City.
- Dec. 3 - Jim Phillips and Brad Miller, University of Toronto, Colonial Politics and the Judiciary in Nova Scotia's Age of Reform, c. 1825-1841.
2004-2005
- Sept. 16 - Bob Gordon, Yale University, The Legal Profession and the Rule of Law: Past and Present.
- Sept. 22 - Randy McGowen, University of Oregon, Making Examples and the Crisis of Punishment in mid-Eighteenth Century England.
- Oct. 13 - Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa, The Law, Slavery and Free Blacks in the Antebellum Mid-West.
- Nov. 10 - James Muir, York University, Credit and Consumerism in Halifax in the 1750s.
- Nov. 24 - Chris Tomlins, American Bar Foundation, TBA
- Dec. 1 - Douglas Hay, York University, Workers, Employers, and English Law in Scottish Courts in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
2003-2004
- Jan. 16 - Mark Fortier, University of Winnipeg, Early Modern Equity.
- Jan. 30 - Bob Sharpe, Ontario Court of Appeal, Kent Roach, University of Toronto, The Early Years: Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court, 1973-1975.
- Feb. 13, In Solarium (Seminar Room 2), Falconer Hall - Jim Phillips, University of Toronto, The Early History of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Joint session with the Colonial History Group.
- Feb. 27 - Joe Kary, Kary and Kwan, Mingled Roots: The English and French Origins of Quebec Libel Law.
- March 13 - David Yarrow, Osgoode Hall Law School, The Conception of Aboriginal Title in the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Joint session with the Colonial History Group.
- March 27 - Dick Risk, University of Toronto, Law Teachers in the 1930s: 'When the World Was Turned Upside Down'.
- April 3 - Catharine Wilson, University of Guelph, TBA
