Legal History

Roundtable discussion on Fernandez & Dubber, "Law Books in Action"

Please join Profs Fernandez and Dubber at a roundtable discussion to celebrate the publication of their book Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise, a collection of essays published by Hart Publishing in 2012.

Three prominent legal historians will be coming to the law school to participate: Morton Horwitz (Harvard Law School); Bob Gordon (Stanford Law School); and Susanna Blumenthal (University of Minnesota, Faculty of Law).

Two New Papers

I have recently posted two new papers to my ssrn page.  The first, titled “Is Historicism a Viable Strategy for Islamic Legal Reform?

Toronto Legal History Group - Rob Steinfeld, University of Buffalo: “Outline for a History of the Origins of American Judicial Review

TORONTO LEGAL HISTORY GROUP

The Toronto Legal History Group group is an informal evening seminar that meets on alternate

Wednesdays between September and April to discuss a wide variety of topics in legal history,

Canadian and international.  Participants are graduate students and faculty in law and history from U of T, York,

 McMaster and other institutions, as well as law students

Toronto Legal History Group - Bettina Bradbury: “Troubling Inheritances"

TORONTO LEGAL HISTORY GROUP

Presents

Troubling Inheritances: An Illegitimate Maori daughter contests her father’s will in the New Zealand Courts and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

 

Legal History Group - Jed Shugerman, Harvard University

February 15 - Jed Shugerman, Harvard University: "The Origins of the US Department of Justice"

For more information, please contact

Jim Phillips At

j.phillips@utoronto.ca

Profs. Fernandez and Dubber publish new book, "Law Books in Action"

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Law Books in ActionProfs. Angela Fernandez and Markus Dubber are the co-editors of Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise (Oxford: Hart Books, 2012). The book's 11 chapters include articles by Prof. Fernandez and U of T Profs. Stephen Waddams and Jim Phillips.

From the publisher:

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