A History of Canadian Legal Thought: Collected Essays

R.C.B. Risk

Published by University of Toronto Press 2006

A History of Canadian Legal Thought

Collected Essays

R.C.B. Risk
Edited by: George Blain Baker and Jim Phillips

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442657151

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Risk R.C.B. :

R.C.B. Risk is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

Baker George Blain :

George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.

Phillips Jim :

Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. The Classical Age: Canadian Legal Thought in the Late Nineteenth Century
1. Constitutional Scholarship in the Late Nineteenth Century: Making Federalism Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
2. A.H.F. Lefroy: Common Law Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada – On Burying One’s Grandfather Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
3. Rights Talk in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century: ‘The Good Sense and Right Feeling of the People’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
4. Blake and Liberty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
5. John Skirving Ewart: The Legal Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
6. Sir William R. Meredith, CJO: The Search for Authority Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Part Two. The Challenge of Modernity: Canadian Legal Thought in the 1930s
7. Volume One of the Journal: A Tribute and a Belated Review Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
8. The Scholars and the Constitution: POGG and the Privy Council Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
9. John Willis: A Tribute Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
10. The Many Minds of W.P.M. Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
11. Canadian Law Teachers in the 1930s: ‘When the World Was Turned Upside Down’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Part Three. Postwar Developments
12. On the Road to Oz: Common Law Scholarship about Federalism after World War II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 336

eBook

Published: December 15, 2006
ISBN: 9781442657151