Congratulations to
Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, Michael Borsk and Krista Barclay!
The
Hon. R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Canadian Legal History. The McMurtry
Fellowship honors Roy McMurtry’s contributions to Canadian Legal History as the
founder and long-time President of the Osgoode Society. It supports a graduate
or post-doctoral student working in the field of Canadian legal history.
The fellowship is usually $16,000, which comes
mostly from the interest on the endowment supplemented when necessary by our
own funds. This year we have a number of budgeted items that we cannot or will
not spend the money on – the Annual Meeting, Amanda Campbell’s trips to (now cancelled)
judges’ conferences, in person legal history talks (announcement about those
coming in a newsletter this week) and others. We decided, given the substantial
number of excellent applications, to award a $16,000 fellowship to our first
choice and two "honourable mentions" fellowships of $7,000 each.
The
principal winner is Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, a doctoral student in the
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, who is writing an intellectual history
of Ētienne Parent, a leading Quebec constitutional thinker in the immediate
pre- and post-Confederation period.
Also McMurtry Fellows, as honourable mentions,
are Michael Borsk and Krista Barclay. Michael Borsk is a Ph.D. student in
history at Queen’s University. He is researching the history of ideas about
private property and sovereignty in Ontario and Michigan in the first half of
the nineteenth century. Krista Barclay received her PhD from the University of
Manitoba and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Department for the
Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is working on inheritance
law in nineteenth-century British North America.
Note: The Saywell Prize will be announced later in the summer.
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