2012-2013
Wednesday September 12 - Matthew Light, University of Toronto: "The Ambiguities of Influence: Russia, the Death Penalty, and Europe"
Wednesday September 26 - Nhung Tran, University of Toronto, "Mortgaging Local Culture: the Commodification of Village Performance in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Vietnam"
Wednesday October 10 - Bettina Bradbury, York University: "Troubling Inheritances: An Illegitimate Maori daughter contests her father's will in the New Zealand Courts and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council."
Wednesday October 24 - Doug Hay, York University: "Criminal Lawyers in Eighteenth Century England
Wednesday November 7 - Rob Steinfeld, University of Buffalo: "Outline for a History of the Origins of American Judicial Review"
Wednesday November 14 - Doug Harris, University of British Columbia, and Jim Phillips, University of Toronto: "History of De facto Expropriation in Canada." This is a discussion of two chapters in the forthcoming book Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context, to be published by the Osgoode Society. The book launch for this book, and the other Osgoode Society publications for 2012, is on Thursday November 15, 5 p.m., at Osgoode Hall.
Wednesday November 21 - Paul Craven, York University: "Called to Account: Magistrates and Public Accounts in 19th Century New Brunswick"
Wednesday December 5 - Anthony Gaughan, Drake University: "Do the Ends Justify the Means? The Trial of the Watergate Burglars."
2010-2011
Wednesday September 15: Eric Reiter, Concordia University: "From Shaved Horses to Aggressive Churchwardens: The Pre-History of Personality Rights in Lower Canadian Law"
Wednesday September 29: Rosemary Gartner, University of Toronto: "The Past as Prologue: Decarceration in California then and now"
Wednesday October 13 - Jula Hughes, University of New Brunswick: "Sir James Stephen's Code"
Wednesday October 27 - Judy Fudge, University of Victoria: "A Simple Matter of Justice? The Federal Female Employees Equal Pay Act, 1956."
Wednesday November 10 - John Weaver, McMaster University: "The Laws and International Agreements on Medical Registration in the British Empire: Refugee Doctors, 1933-1942."
Wednesday November 24 - Jim Walker, University of Waterloo: "The RDS Case"
Wednesday December 8 - Simon Stern, University of Toronto: "The Rise of Legal Analysis."
2009-10
All sessions are in the Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House, starting at 6.30. All students are welcome.
Wednesday September 16 - Almos Tassonyi, Senior Economist, Government of Ontario: "Good Housekeeping: The Imposition of the Hard Budget Constraint on Municipalities in Ontario in the Great Depression."
Wednesday September 30 - Simon Stern, University of Toronto: "The Origins of the Reasonable Person"
Wednesday October 14 - Allan Greer, McGill University: "Commons and Enclosure in John Locke's America"
Wednesday October 21 - Robert Gordon, Yale University: "Do Lawyers Promote the Rule of Law?"
Wednesday November 4 - Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto: "Tapping Reeve and the Litchfield Law School: A Pushy Pedagogy and Married Women's Property Rights."
Wednesday November 18 - Bonny Ibhawoh, McMaster University: "African Appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, 1850-1960"
Wednesday December 2 - Michael Marrus, University of Toronto: "Some Measure of Justice: The Holocaust Era Restitution Campaign of the 1990s."
Wednesday January 13 - John Beattie, University of Toronto: "Detection: The Bow Street Runners at Work"
Wednesday January 27 - Lyndsay Campbell, University of Calgary: "Through American Eyes: Questions and Themes Concerning Mid-19th-Century Upper Canadian Legal Institutions"
Wednesday February 10 - Jeremy Martin and Jim Phillips, University of Toronto: "Making Legal History: Manitoba Fisheries v. The Queen"
Wednesday February 17 - Reading Week
Wednesday February 24 - David Steeves, Independent Scholar: "The Daniel Sampson case and Jury Selection in the 1930s"
Wednesday March 10 - Paul Craven, York University: "Three Ships: Poverty, Paternalism and Politics at Mid-Century."
Wednesday March 24 - Robert Steinfeld, University of Buffalo: ""The Early Anti-Majoritarian Rationale for American Judicial Review."
Wednesday April 7 - Frank Luce, Osgoode Hall Law School: "Labour Justice and 'rule by law': Brazil's Dictatorship, 1964-1985".
April 14 or 21 - Carolyn Strange, Australian National University: TBA
2008-09
Tuesday September 23 - Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School, “ ‘Make a Better Indian of Him:’ Indian Policy and Criminal Law in the North-West Territories, 1876-1903.”
Tuesday October 7 - Greg Taylor, Monash University, Melbourne, “How The Torrens System Got To Canada.”
Wednesday October 22 - Nick Rogers, York University, “"Theatres of Justice in the London [Gordon] riots of 1780."
Wednesday November 5 - Allan Greer, McGill University, “Commons and Enclosure in John Locke's America"
Tuesday November 18 - Doug Harris, University of British Columbia, “Condominium: The Rise of Property in the City".
Wednesday December 3 - Jim Phillips and Brad Miller, University of Toronto, “Colonial Politics and the Judiciary in Nova Scotia’s Age of Reform, c. 1825-1841"
2007-08
| Date | Speaker | Title |
Tuesday
September 23 | Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School | " 'Make a Better Indian of Him:' Indian Policy and Criminal Law in the North-West Territories, 1876-1903." |
Tuesday
October 7 | Greg Taylor, Monash University, Melbourne | "How The Torrens System Got To Canada." |
Wednesday
October 22 | Nick Rogers, York University | "Theatres of Justice in the London [Gordon] riots of 1780." |
| Wednesday November 5 | Allan Greer, McGill University | "Commons and Enclosure in John Locke's America" |
Tuesday
November 18 | Doug Harris, University of British Columbia | "Condominium: The Rise of Property in the City" |
| Wednesday December 3 | Jim Phillips and Brad Miller, University of Toronto | "Colonial Politics and the Judiciary in Nova Scotia's Age of Reform, c. 1825-1841" |
2006-2007
September 20 - Karen Macfarlane, York University, "The practice of trials per medietatem linguae in Eighteenth-Century England"
October 4 - Eric Tucker, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Recurring Dilemmas: The History of Shareholder and Director Liability for Workers' Wages"
October 18 - Julia Croome, Jim Phillips, and Christian Vernon, University of Toronto, "Reformers, Tories, Judges (and Coal Miners): The Judiciary in Nova Scotia Politics, 1828-1842"
November 1 - Eric Adams, University of Toronto, "Fighting for Freedom: Canadian Constitutional Thought During the Second World War"
November 15 - John McLaren, University of Victoria, "Men of Principle or Ratbags? Judicial
Independence and Disciplining of Colonial Judges in the 19th Century British Empire" - or " A Funny Way to Run an Empire!
November 22 - Kelly De Luca, Columbia University
December 6 - Myra Tawfik, University of Windsor, "Canadian Copyright Law in the Nineteenth Century"
2004-2005
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Thursday September 16 | Bob Gordon,
Yale University | "The Legal Profession and the Rule of Law: Past and Present" |
| Wednesday September 22 | Randy McGowen,
University of Oregon | "Making Examples and the Crisis of Punishment in mid-Eighteenth Century England" |
| Wednesday October 13 | Paul Finkelman,
University of Tulsa | "The Law, Slavery and Free Blacks in the Antebellum Mid-West" |
| Wednesday November 10 | James Muir,
York University | "Credit and Consumerism in Halifax in the 1750s" |
| Wednesday November 24 | Chris Tomlins,
American Bar Foundation | TBA |
| Wednesday December 1 | Douglas Hay,
York University | "Workers, Employers, and English Law in Scottish Courts in the 18th and 19th Centuries" |
2003-2004
| Date | Speaker | Title |
January 16th
6.30 p.m. | Mark Fortier,
University of Winnipeg | "Early Modern Equity" |
January 30th
6.30 p.m. | Bob Sharpe,
Ontario Court of Appeal
Kent Roach,
University of Toronto | "The Early Years: Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court, 1973-1975" |
February 13th
7.00 p.m.
In Solarium (Seminar Room 2), Falconer Hall | Jim Phillips,
University of Toronto | "The Early History of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court"
Joint session with the Colonial History Group |
February 27th
6.30 p.m. | Joe Kary,
Kary and Kwan | "Mingled Roots: The English and French Origins of Quebec Libel Law" |
March 13th
7.00 p.m. | David Yarrow,
Osgoode Hall Law School | "The Conception of Aboriginal Title in the Royal Proclamation of 1763"
Joint session with the Colonial History Group |
March 27th
6.30 p.m. | Dick Risk,
University of Toronto | "Law Teachers in the 1930s: 'When the World Was Turned Upside Down.'" |
April 3rd
6.30 p.m. | Catharine Wilson,
University of Guelph | TBA |
