A history of Canadian legal thought : collected essays

A history of Canadian legal thought : collected essays

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Edition Details

• Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): G. Blaine Baker, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, R. C. B. Risk, Jim Phillips
• Language: English
• Jurisdiction(s): Ontario
• Publication Information: Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, ©2006
• Publication Type (Medium): History
• Material: Internet resource
• Type: Book, Internet Resource
• Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/a-history-of-canadian-legal-thought-collected-essays/ (Stable identifier)

Additional Format

Online version: Risk, R.C.B., 1936- History of Canadian legal thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)606208498 Online version: Risk, R.C.B., 1936- History of Canadian legal thought. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ©2006 (OCoLC)607906484

Short Description

VIII, 434 pages ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, A history of Canadian legal thought : collected essays is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

• Publisher: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
• Responsable Person: R.C.B. Risk ; edited and introduced by G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Location: Toronto
• Country/State: Ontario
• Number of Editions: 8 editions
• First edition Date: 2006
• Last edition Date: 2006
• Languages: English
• Library of Congress Code: KE394
• Dewey Code: 340.10971
• ISBN: 9780802094247 0802094244
• OCLC: 70675984

Main Contents

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.

Summary Note

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.

Structured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada
• Law (Philosophical concept)
• Study and teaching

Unstructured Subjects (Headings):

• Canada

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