Letter from Jim Phillips to legal history workshop distribution list

Osgoode Society editor-in-chief Jim Phillips sent this email this morning to people on the Osgoode Society legal history workshop distribution list--reproduced here for those not on the list (in order to be added to the list to get info on our workshop and copies of papers being presented please email Jim at j.phillips@utoronto.ca.) It's true--Osgoode Society membership is a good deal, especially for students.

Dear Friends. I know that many of you on this list are members of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. For those of you who are not, or who were in the past but forgot to renew your membership this year, I urge you to consider joining the Society. It is Canada’s leading legal historical organization, and one of the preeminent such societies in the world. We are a membership organization, with lawyers, judges, academics, students in law and history, and others who think history matters. Since 1981 we have published over 100 books on Canadian legal history, and there are many more in the pipeline. We publish mainly with the University of Toronto Press, although we also work with McGill-Queen’s, UBC Press, and others.

The Society also runs one of the largest oral history programmes in the legal historical world, amassing an archive of current participants in legal developments that will be of great utility to future historians.

And – what a bargain membership is! Regular memberships are just $60,  and with membership you receive the annual members book. Student memberships are $25, and with membership you also receive the annual members book. We put out regular newsletters, hold legal history events, and run a small research grants programme. Not the least important, the Society pays the expenses associated with running this workshop.

To find out more about us, and to join, please go to www.osgoodesociety.ca. Happy to answer any questions you have.

Jim

Posted on SSRN: W. Wesley Pue (1954-2019) A Personal Appreciation by David Sugarman

Posted on SSRN, Newsletter of the Research Committee of the Sociology of Law (2019)
A personal appreciation of Wes Pue by David Sugarman of Lancaster University Law School

Abstract:

A personal appreciation of Wes Pue (1954-2019), a leading light of Canadian legal history, who is best known for his richly detailed, ground-breaking research which unravelled the ways in which lawyers and legal education shaped culture, cultural authority, identity, politics and the British empire in England and its Empire from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Legal history evening for professionals (updated with accreditation info)

*This program contains 1 hour of EDI Professionalism Content*

THE OSGOODE SOCIETY FOR CANADIAN LEGAL HISTORY Established in 1979, the Osgoode Society publishes books on Canadian legal history and maintains an oral history archive.   An Evening of Canadian Legal History

Join us for an Evening Session of Legal History for Legal Professionals On October 28th Professor Jim Phillips, Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief,  will present the next lecture in our Canadian legal history lecture series.  No Thought of Reconciliation: The New Dominion and the Indian Acts,1867-1914   Monday October 28th at 5:30 p.m WeirFoulds LLP  66 Wellington St.W. - 41st Floor    At Confederation there was very little colonial legislation about indigenous peoples. The first federal legislation on the subject was passed in 1868, and Parliament augmented that more than two dozen times between then and 1914. The major statute was the Indian Act of 1876, but it was continually amended over the ensuing decades. Professor Phillips will discuss the major policy goals of this legislative output, which was principally aimed at assimilating indigenous peoples into settler ways of life and culture. He will also sketch out the reactions of the indigenous people themselves to these legislative efforts to undermine and eventually destroy indigenous culture.  Professor Jim Phillips, Osgoode Society Editor-in-Chief * approval pending for 60 minutes EDI Professionalism Credit from the Law Society for Ontario. SPACE IS LIMITED, SO PLEASE REGISTER BY OCTOBER 21. PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR OSGOODE SOCIETY MEMBERS ONLY. IF YOU HAVE NOT RENEWED YOUR MEMBERSHIP, YOU WILL NEED TO DO SO BEFORE YOU CAN REGISTER.  REGISTER HERE YOU CAN ALSO REGISTER BY PHONE AT 416-947-3321 OR VIA E-MAIL Benefits of Membership: 2019 members book, which will is Connecting the Dots: The Life of an Academic Lawyer by Harry Arthurs Lectures and Events Quarterly newsletter with information on the Osgoode Society and Canadian legal history. Join the Society, Renew Your Membership, or Join our Mailing List