Toronto Legal History Group

The Toronto Legal History group is an informal evening seminar that meets 8-10 times a year. Participants are graduate students and faculty in law and history from U of T, York, McMaster and other institutions, as well as law students. All law students with an interest in legal history are welcome.

If you would like to be put on the mailing list and to receive the papers, please send an email to j.phillips@utoronto.ca.

Past speakers have included:

• David Sugarman, University of Lancaster, on the Pinochet case
• Bob Gordon,  Yale University, on Moral and Economic Regulation
• John Beattie, University of Toronto, on the Bow Street Runners
• Mark Walters, Queen's, on early conceptions of aboriginal title
• Karen Pearlston, Osgoode Hall Law School, on "Coverture and the Feme Sole Trader in England"
• John Weaver, McMaster University, on 'Steyntje and Her Children: A Slave’s Pursuit of Freedom in the Cape Town Courts and before the Privy Council"