Friday, October 28, 2011

Four New Books from the Osgoode Society

News of a joint book launch held on October 26 by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History appears on Slaw.  The four books were:

The Lazier Murder: Prince Edward County, 1884
by Robert J. Sharpe, Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario.
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press.

Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

by Philip Girard, Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University.
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of Toronto Press.

Dewigged, Bothered and Bewildered: British Colonial Judges on Trial
by John Mclaren, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Victoria.
Published for the Osgoode Society with the Frances Forbes Society by the University of Toronto Press.

Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
by Lesley Erickson, Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary
Published for the Osgoode Society by the University of British Columbia Press.