Philip Girard to be James L. Lewtas Visting Professor at Osgoode in 2011-2012

More good news for Osgoode Hall Law School: Philip Girard, who has been a visitor at the Centre of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto while on sabbatical leave this year from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, will spend next year as the James L. Lewtas Visiting Professor at Osgoode. His book Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America:  Beamish Murdoch of Halifax will be launched by the Osgoode Society in August. Philip, Jim Phillips and Blake Brown are continuing work on their major project "Canadian Legal History, 1500-2000."  Philip and Jim's piece "Rethinking 'the Nation' in National Legal History:  A Canadian Perspective" will appear in the upcoming spring issue of the Law and History Review.


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Benjamin Berger to move to Osgoode

It was announced today that Benjamin Berger, currently an associate professor at the University of Victoria, has been appointed to the faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School (subject to University approval.) UVic's loss is definitely Osgoode's gain.

Ben is a member of the board of the Canadian Law and Society Association, and the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, who includes legal history among his research interests. Ben's latest legal history publication is "Judges, Juries, and the History of Criminal Appeals" which appeared in the February 2011 issue of the Law and History Review (Vol. 29 no.1).