A tribute to Peter Oliver
A tribute to Peter Oliver
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Edition Details
- Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): John T. Saywell, Jim Phillips
- Language: English
- Jurisdiction(s): Ontario
- Publication Information: Toronto [Ont.] : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2008
- Publication Type (Medium): Electronic books, Festschriften
- Material: Document, Internet resource
- Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
- Series title: Essays in the history of Canadian law, v. 10.
- Permalink: https://books.lawi.ca/a-tribute-to-peter-oliver/ (Stable identifier)
Short Description
1 online resource (XII, 471 pages : ILlustrations, portraits, map).
Purpose and Intended Audience
Useful for students learning an area of law, A tribute to Peter Oliver 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: edited by Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry and John T. Saywell.
- Publication Date: 2008
- Country/State: Ontario
- Number of Editions: 5 editions
- First edition Date: 2008
- Last edition Date: 2008
- Languages: English
- Library of Congress Code: KE394
- Dewey Code: 349.71
- ISBN: 9781442689510 144268951X
- OCLC: 635459393
Main Contents
Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History / Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell
Rape in the House of Commons: the prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 / Constance Backhouse
Wardens and prisoners: apsects of prison culture in Ontario, 1974-1914 / Jospeh Ashley Berkovits
'Perverts a menace': the development of the criminal sexual psychopath offence, 1948 / Patrick Brode
The law of rules: prosecuting railway workers in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario / Paul Craven
Politics, promotion, and professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's judicial appointments / Philip Girard
'High above the generality of the people': the ideological origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court circuit / Jim Phillips
Judicial scandal and the culture of patronage in early confederation, 1867-78 / Jonathan Swainger
Strategic Benthamism: rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through criminal law codification, 1847-54 / G. Blaine Baker
The rule of law and Irish whig constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish opposition, ' and the volunteer connection / John McLaren
Diplomacy, international law, and foreign fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 convention / Rainer Baehre
Social workers, courts, and the implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 / Lori Chambers
The David Fasken estate: estate planning and social history in early twentieth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer
Squatters' rights and the origins of Edmonton settlement / Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward.
Summary Note
Covering a broad range of topics, this volume examines developments over the last two hundred years in the legal profession and the judiciary, nineteenth-century prison history, as well as the impact of the 1815 Treaty of Paris.