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NEW POLICY for members' book
We are inaugurating a new
policy with regard to our members’ book. In 2016 members may choose the book
they receive with their membership from one of two books. The two books are:
Lori Chambers, A History
of Adoption Law in Ontario, 1921-2015 (University of Toronto Press)
Bradley Miller, Borderline
Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914. (University
of Toronto Press)
When renewing your membership,
or joining for the first time, be sure to indicate what your selection is by
checking the appropriate box.
Here is a description of each
book.
Lori Chambers, A History
of Adoption Law in Ontario, 1921-2015 (University of Toronto Press).
Lori Chambers, Professor at Lakehead University, has written two previous books
for the Osgoode Society. Her latest contribution traces the history of adoption
law in Ontario from 1921, when the first Adoption Act was passed, to the
present. She details the origins and passage of that legislation and then
examines a series of legal changes and accompanying controversies, from debates
about the meaning of consent by birth mothers to same-sex adoption. Many of
these controversies – adoption of aboriginal children, international adoption,
secrecy in adoption records - have emerged in the last few decades, and this is
therefore very much a ‘modern’ history of adoption law. In analyzing the
development of the law Chambers skilfully weaves together statutes and cases
with extra-legal debates over the meaning of parental and childrens’
rights.
Bradley Miller, Borderline
Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914. (University
of Toronto Press). Bradley Miller, Professor of History at the University of
British Columbia, has written the first comprehensive history of cross-border
Canadian-American interactions in relation to fugitive criminals, escaped
slaves, and refugees. Miller examines the complexity of those interactions,
which involved formal legal regimes governed by treaties as well as informal
and extra legal phenomena such as abductions and ground-level ‘customary’
co-operation between low-level officials. All of this is set against the
background of a developing international law and evolving ideas about
extradition in other parts of the British empire.
OPTIONAL EXTRAS
This year we are offering two optional extras.
First, members must choose one
of the two books discussed above as part of their membership. Whichever one you choose, they may also opt to purchase the other as an ‘optional extra.’
Second, our additional
optional extra this year is Law, Debt and Merchant Power: The Civil
Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax, by James Muir, Professor of Law
and History, University of Alberta, published by the University of Toronto
Press. This is a path-breaking study of the every-day work of civil law and
civil courts. It examines the type of litigation pursued (mostly debt), how the
courts worked, and how the economy operated in a society with very little cash
and in which credit was the lifeblood of commerce. Muir employs both quantitative
and qualitative analyses of all extant case files and explains how
eighteenth-century court procedure worked. He situates his study against the
society and economy of Halifax, analyzing who sued who and why and how the
legal system fit into patterns of economic relations and activity.
IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE one or
both of the optional extras, please indicate so on the form below if you choose
that method of renewing your membership, and you will be billed when it
appears. You may also order and pay now for the optional extras on our website
when you renew your membership that way.
Thank for very much your interest in, and support of, the Osgoode
Society for Canadian Legal History. If you have any questions please email Jim Phillips at j.phillips@utoronto.ca.
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