Via our friends at the
Canadian Legal History Blog, we have the lineup for the Winter 2018
Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop:
Wednesday January 10 or 17: TBA
Wednesday January 31 – Elizabeth Koester, University of Toronto: ‘Litigating Eugenics: The 1936 Eastview Birth Control Trial’.
Wednesday February 14: Tom Telfer, Western University: ‘The New Bankruptcy “Detective Agency”? The Origins of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy in Great Depression Canada.’
Wednesday February 28 - Donald Fyson, Laval University: TBA
Wednesday March 14: Jeff McNairn,
Queen’s University: ‘ “Where covert guile and artifice abound:” Making
Legal Knowledge of Insolvency and Fraud in Upper Canada, 1794-1843.’
Wednesday March 28: Michael Boudreau, St Thomas University: ‘Capital Punishment in New Brunswick, 1869-1957’.
Wednesday April 4 - Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School:
‘Historicizing Criminalization of Canada’s First Nations: A Project for
Legal Historians?’
