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Essays in the history of Canadian law. Volume X, A tribute to Peter N. Oliver

Essays in the history of Canadian law. Volume X, A tribute to Peter N. Oliver

Essays in the history of Canadian law.

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Print version: Phillips, J. Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume X: A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ©2000

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1 online resource (XII, 471 pages).

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Essays in the history of Canadian law. Volume X, A tribute to Peter N. Oliver is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Main Contents

pt. 1. Criminal justice : law, policy, and the limits of the criminal sanction
pt. 2. The judiciary : ideology, legitimacy, and politics
pt. 3. Legal thought and the legal profession : contested conceptions of law and lawyers
pt. 4. New directions in legal history
private law, international law, low law, and informal law.

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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. '''

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