The Osgoode Society awards two prizes every year, and one every other year. Each award is decided on
by a committee consisting of Jim Phillips and two others, mostly, though not
entirely, Osgoode Society Directors. We would like to thank all those who helped
make the various selections for 2018. Our award winners will be formally
announced, and the awards presented, at the Annual Meeting.
The Peter
Oliver Prize, given for published work in Canadian legal history by a
student, goes to David Sandomierski for his article ‘Tension and Reconciliation
in Canadian Contract Law Casebooks,’ in (2017) 54 Osgoode Hall Law Journal
1181.
The
Hon. R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal History attracted a
strong field of candidates, and the committee chose two co-winners. One
co-winner is Chandra Murdoch, a PhD student in the History Department at the
University of Toronto, who is working on the application of the first Indian
Act (1876) in Ontario. The other co-winner is Daniel Murchison, a PhD student
in the History Department at York University, who is working on the effects of
legal change on land-holding and family structure among the indigenous peoples
of the Red River valley.
The John T. Saywell Prize in Canadian Constitutional Legal
History has been awarded to Peter Russell,
Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Toronto, for his
2017 book, Canada’s Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests.
The book is a wonderfully readable constitutional history of Canada, written by
this country’s foremost political scientist/historian of our constitution.
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