Canada's Legal Pasts
Looking Foreward, Looking Back
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2020
- Subjects
- Legal History, General, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781773851198
- Publish Date
- May 2020
- List Price
- $39.99
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Description
Canada's Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts—and why we study them.
Telling new stories—about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more—this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archival records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history.
This is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels.
About the authors
Lyndsay Campbell is an associate professor in Law and History at the University of Calgary.
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Ted McCoy is an associate professor in Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is a historian of punishment and has published on penitentiaries in Canada’s nineteenth century. His books include Hard Time (2012) and Four Unruly Women (2019).
Melanie Methot is an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus.
Eric H. Reiter is Associate Professor in the Department of History, Concordia University, and a member of the Barreau du Québec. His publications have recently appeared in the Indigenous Law Journal, the Canadian Bar Review, and the Journal of Civil Law Studies. He is currently working on a book on social and legal ideas of honour and other intangible interests in 19th- and 20thcentury Quebec.
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Angela Fernandez is professor of law cross-appointed to the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Angela Fernandez's profile page
Catharine MacMillan's profile page
Alexandra Havrylyshyn's profile page
Jean-Phillipe Garneau's profile page
Shelley A.M. Gavigan's profile page
Dominique Clément is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Human Rights in Canada: A History (WLU Press, 2016), Canada’s Rights Revolution, and Equality Deferred, as well as the co-editor of Alberta's Human Rights Story and Debating Dissent. He is the author of numerous articles on human rights, social movements, women’s history, foreign policy, and labour history.