New open access from the University of Calgary Press: Campbell, McCoy, and Méthot, eds., Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back

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BOOK: Lyndsay CAMPBELL, Ted MCCOY, and Mélanie MÉTHOT, eds., Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Calgary: University of Calgary, 2020). ISBN 978-1-77385-118-1, OPEN ACCESS Posted: 11 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT (Source: University of Calgary Press) The University of Calgary Press is publishing a new, open-access book on Canadian legal history. ABOUT THE BOOK Canada’s Legal Pasts presents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada’s legal pasts—and why we study them. Telling new stories—about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more—this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada’s legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archival records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada’s most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history. This is Canadian legal history as you’ve never seen it before. Canada’s Legal Pasts dives into new topics in Canada’s fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels. ABOUT THE EDITORS Lyndsay Cambell is an associate professor at the University of Calgary, cross-appointed between the Faculty of Law and the Department of History. She is the co-editor of Freedom’s Conditions in the U.S.-Canada Borderlands in the Age of Emancipation. Ted McCoy is an assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in Nineteenth-Century Canada and Four Unruly Women: Stories of Incarceration and Resistance from Canada’s Most Notorious Prison. Mélanie Méthot is an associate professor of History at the University of Alberta, Augustana Campus and the recipient of a SSHRC Grant for her research on bigamy in Canada. She is the founder of the Augustana Conference on Undergraduate Research and Innovative Teaching. With Contributions By: Nick Austin, Dominique Clément, Angela Fernandez, Jean-Philippe Garneau, Shelly A.M. Gavigan, Alexandra Havrylyshyn, Louis A. Knafla, Catherine McMillan, Eric A. Reiter, and Christopher Shorey TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword: A Student’s Take on Canada’s Legal Pasts Nick Austin Introduction: Canada’s Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back Ted McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, Mélanie Méthot Part I: Illuminating Cases Family Defamation in Quebec: The View from the Archives Eric H. Reiter Writing Penitentiary History Ted McCoy Analyzing Bigamy Cases without Archival Records: It Is Possible Mélanie Méthot Trial Pamphlets and Newspaper Accounts Lyndsay Campbell The Last Voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr Christopher Shorey The Textbook Edition of Kent’s Commentaries Used in the Gerring Angela Fernandez Part II: Exploring Systems Empire’s Law: Archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Catharine MacMillan Practising Law in the “Lawyerless” Colony of New France Alexandra Havrylyshyn Poursuivre son mari en justice au Bas-Canada: femmes mariées et coutume de Paris devant la cour du Banc du roi (1795-1830) Jean-Philippe Garneau Getting Their Man: The NWMP as Accused in the Territorial Criminal Court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1905 Shelley A.M. Gavigan Part III: Writing Legal History: Past, Present and Future Sex Discrimination in Law: From Equal Citizenship to Human Rights Law Dominique Clément Legal-Historical Writing for the Canadian Prairies: Past, Present, Future Louis A. Knafla Primary source bibliography Secondary source bibliography Contributors Index More info here