Call for Applications: Post-Doc at UNB

The Faculty of Arts at the University of New Brunswick is accepting applications for twelve-month post-doctoral fellowship beginning 1 July 2017.  This postdoc is in conjunction with a SSHRC-funded Partnership Development Grant on “Unrest, Violence and the Search for Social Order in British North America and Canada, 1749-1878” and the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies.  The fellow’s primary responsibilities will be two-fold:  1) work on a research project that is relevant to the theme of unrest, violence, and social order in British North America, ca. 1749-1876 [2/3 time]; and 2) work with the co-partners on the grant – Elizabeth Mancke (UNB), Jerry Bannister (Dalhousie University), Scott See (University of Maine), and Denis McKim (Douglas College) to edit a volume of essays coming out of a workshop on this theme [1/3 time].  At UNB, the fellow will be affiliated with Elizabeth Mancke, CRC in Atlantic Canada Studies, the Atlantic Canada Studies Centre, and the Department of History.  The compensation is $40,500.

Potential candidates must be within three years of receiving their PhD and must have their PhD completed by 1 June 2017. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a letter of application that includes a statement of their research program, and arrange to have three letters of recommendations sent by 15 March 2017 to:

Professor Elizabeth Mancke

P.O. Box 4400

Department of History

University of New Brunswick

Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3

Electronic submissions are accepted:  emancke@unb.ca.

The University of New Brunswick is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from qualified women and men, visible minorities, aboriginal people, and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

Contact:	Professor Elizabeth Mancke P.O. Box 4400 Department of History University of New Brunswick Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3 Electronic submissions are accepted:  emancke@unb.ca.
Website:	http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/arts/departments/history/
Primary Category:	Canadian History / Studies
Secondary Categories:	None
Posting Date:	01/20/2017
Closing Date	02/16/2017

Legal history of Great Lakes in The Canadian Geographer/Le géographe

via H-Net:

The latest issue of The Canadian Geographer/ Le géographe canadien (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cag.v60.4/issuetoc) contains a special section which presents the results of collective research on the historical process of defining the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River.

Introduction : Reconsidering the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River: History, cartography, law, and ecology (pages 409–412)

Author : Michèle Dagenais

Gateways, inland seas, or boundary waters? Historical conceptions of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River since the 19th century (pages 413–424)

Authors : Michèle Dagenais and Ken Cruikshank

Cartographic productions and historiographical representations: Geographical imaginations of the St. Lawrence River (pages 425–434)

Author : Stéphane Castonguay

From boundary waters to watersheds: Legal change and the geography of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system (pages 435–445)

Author : Jamie Benidickson

Fisheries, invasive species, and the formation and fracturing of the Great Lakes system (pages 446–457)

Authors : William Knight and Stephen Bocking

2017 Osgoode Society optional book: An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936

The "optional extra" book from the Osgoode Society, to be published this year in conjunction with the U of T Press, is An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936. 

By Dennis G. Molinaro

Section 98 of the Criminal Code of Canada was passed in 1919 following the Winnipeg general strike as a law aimed at ‘unlawful associations.’ Its very broad definition of unlawful association meant that it could be used against a wide variety of opponents of the status quo, including the Communist Party of Canada, left-leaning organisations of various kinds, and labour leaders.

Although it was justified as part of the state’s ‘emergency powers,’ it became, Molinaro argues, ‘normalised’, part of the ordinary fabric of mainstream society’s approach to dissent. Like other recent Osgoode Society publications, especially Security, Dissent and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace: Canadian State Trials Volume IV, 1914-1939,  An Exceptional Law provides a deeply-researched historical account of a current much-debated question – where is the line between freedom and security to be drawn in a liberal democracy?

Osgoode Society (re)updated workshop schedule

Here's the schedule for the rest of the term as it stands now.

All sessions in Flavelle 219 (formerly Faculty Lounge) except February 22nd.

All  sessions start at 6.30 p.m

Wednesday January 25 – Anna Jarvis, York University: “Colonial criminal justice and the Mi'kmaq: the case of Tom Williams, Prince Edward Island, 1839”.

Wednesday February 8 – Bill Wylie, Independent Scholar: “The “Majestic Equality” of the Law: Diverging Views on the Reform of the Civil Law and Courts in Upper Canada, 1841-1857.”

Wednesday, February 22 - David Chan Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University: "Social expectations, Self-interest, and the Public Good: Rethinking the Early Common Law Corporation."

(Jackman 125)

Wednesday March 8 – Ashley Rubin, University to Toronto: “America’s Proto-Prisons Revisited: The Innovation of Proto-Prisons and the Diffusion of the Walnut Street Model, 1785-1822."

Wednesday March 22 – Chandra Murdoch, University of Toronto: TBA

Wednesday April 5 – Blaine Baker, McGill University: ‘‘Juristic Biographies, Homage Volumes, and Tracings of Gerald LeDain’s Life in the Law”

Wednesday, April 12 – Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University: "The Last British Justice in Revolutionary America: Charleston's Board of Police, 1780-1782."

And another change (an addition) to the workshop schedule

The April 5th workshop slot, recently vacated by Sally Hadden, has now been filled by Blaine Baker. I will update the schedule accordingly.

Blaine's paper is ‘‘Juristic Biographies, Homage Volumes, and Tracings of Gerald LeDain’s Life in the Law".

Osgoode Society legal history workshop schedule--date change

The remaining dates for the term: All sessions in Flavelle 219 (formerly Faculty Lounge) except those of February 8 and 22nd.

All  sessions start at 6.30 p.m

Wednesday January 25 – Anna Jarvis, York University: “Colonial criminal justice and the Mi'kmaq: the case of Tom Williams, Prince Edward Island, 1839”.

Wednesday February 8 – Bill Wylie, Independent Scholar: “The “Majestic Equality” of the Law: Diverging Views on the Reform of the Civil Law and Courts in Upper Canada, 1841-1857.”

(Jackman P120)

Wednesday, February 22 - David Chan Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University: "Social expectations, Self-interest, and the Public Good: Rethinking the Early Common Law Corporation."

(Jackman 125) 

Wednesday March 8 – Ashley Rubin, University to Toronto: “America’s Proto-Prisons Revisited: The Innovation of Proto-Prisons and the Diffusion of the Walnut Street Model, 1785-1822."

Wednesday March 22 – Chandra Murdoch, University of Toronto: TBA

change in date***Wednesday, April 12*** – Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University: "The Last British Justice in Revolutionary America: Charleston's Board of Police, 1780-1782."

Osgoode Society member's book for 2017: A Biography of Claire L’Heureux-Dubé by Constance Backhouse

Our member's book for 2017:

A Biography of Claire L’Heureux-Dubé

By Constance Backhouse.  Published by the Osgoode Society and the University of British Columbia Press.

Claire L’Heureux-Dubé was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, in 1987, and the first from Quebec. This deeply-researched biography takes us through the judge’s origins and life in the Quebec of the 1920s to the present, and its portrait of that society greatly enriches the books comprehensive, intimate, and insightful portrait of L’Heureux-Dubé herself.

We learn a great deal about the role of women and women lawyers in Quebec society, the Quebec legal profession, legal education and the judiciary, as L’Heureux-Dubé ascended the province’s legal hierarchy to the Court of Appeal.

Our understanding of the Supreme Court of Canada during the early Charter era is greatly augmented by this account, which deals with the gender and cultural dynamics, and the relations between Anglophone and Francophone judges, and the jurisprudential debates and controversies of the period.

The book takes us beyond L’Heureux-Dubé’s retirement and into the various high-profile interventions she made into public life, including her contribution to the Charter of Quebec Values controversy. This is a must-read for anybody interested in Canada’s and Quebec’s modern legal history, in the role of women in law, and in what made this woman judge such a compelling personality.

New membership option at Osgoode Society: Become a member or renew today!

Established in 1979, the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History publishes books on Canadian legal history, and creates and preserves an oral history archive.

Since 1981 the Society has published over 100 books on a diverse range of topics in Canadian legal history and has recorded more than 600 oral histories from various members of the legal profession.

This year we are adding a new category of membership, responding to some of our members who tell us that they want to support the Osgoode Society but may not want our membership book. Members opting for this category will receive a charitable donation receipt for part of their subscription.

All other categories of membership – Student, Individual with book, and Individual Sustaining – will continue to come with our members’ book for the year.

Your membership in the Society helps us continue to promote and to preserve Canadian Legal History. Join us!

Student membership..................................$25 a year

Individual membership with book.............. $60 a year

Individual membership without book...........$50 a year

Individual sustaining membership.............. $165 a year

Corporate sustaining membership.............. $500 a year

A portion of the ordinary membership without book, individual sustaining,

and McMurtry Honour Roll membership entitles the member to a charitable receipt.

We also welcome donations and bequests:

please inquire of Amanda Campbell at osgoodesociety@lsuc.on.ca