A tribute to Peter Oliver
By: edited by Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry and John T. Saywell
Contributors: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Series: Essays in the history of Canadian law -- v. 10; Essays in the history of Canadian law -- v. 10.
Publisher: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto [Ont.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9781442689510; 9780802099112
Subjects: LAW; Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Legal History; Law; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Peter Oliver and the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History / Jim Phillips, R. Roy McMurtry, and John T. Saywell; title: Rape in the House of Commons: the prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 / Constance Backhouse; title: Wardens and prisoners: apsects of prison culture in Ontario, 1974-1914 / Jospeh Ashley Berkovits; title: 'Perverts a menace': the development of the criminal sexual psychopath offence, 1948 / Patrick Brode; title: The law of rules: prosecuting railway workers in mid-nineteenth-century Ontario / Paul Craven; title: Politics, promotion, and professionalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier's judicial appointments / Philip Girard; title: 'High above the generality of the people': the ideological origins of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court circuit / Jim Phillips; title: Judicial scandal and the culture of patronage in early confederation, 1867-78 / Jonathan Swainger; title: Strategic Benthamism: rehabilitating United Canada's Bar through criminal law codification, 1847-54 / G. Blaine Baker; title: The rule of law and Irish whig constitutionalism in Upper Canada: William Warren Baldwin, the 'Irish opposition, ' and the volunteer connection / John McLaren; title: Diplomacy, international law, and foreign fishing in Newfoundland, 1814-30: revisiting the 1815 Treaty of Paris and the 1818 convention / Rainer Baehre; title: Social workers, courts, and the implementation of the Children of Unmarried Parents Act, 1921-69 / Lori Chambers; title: The David Fasken estate: estate planning and social history in early twentieth-century Ontario / C. Ian Kyer; title: Squatters' rights and the origins of Edmonton settlement / Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward.