Symposium on The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform (May 24, 2017 in Italy)

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Symposium on The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform

24 May 2017

On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Confederation.  

In memory of Alessandro Pizzorusso

Scuola Sant’Anna

Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33

Pisa, Italy

 

Convened by:

Giuseppe Martinico

Richard Albert

Antonia Baraggia

Cristina Fasone

 

This Symposium will convene a group of scholars to reflect on the history and evolution of the Constitution of Canada, on its written and unwritten dimensions, on its influence abroad, and on prospects for its reform.
Submissions are invited from scholars of all levels—from senior scholars to doctoral students—on one or more of the following subjects. We invite participants to take any methodological approach they wish, including comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical and/or theoretical perspectives.

• The History and Evolution of the Constitution of Canada
• The Influence Abroad of the Constitution of Canada
• Canada’s “Invisible” Constitution
• Reforming Canada’s Constitution: Perspectives from Abroad

The Symposium will be highlighted by a keynote address by Susanna Mancini, Full Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna, and will feature Paolo Carrozza (Scuola Sant’Anna, Pisa), Giacomo Delledonne (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles), Anna Gamper (University of Innsbruck), and Patricia Popelier (University of Antwerp).
How to Participate:  Interested scholars are asked to submit an abstract no longer than 500 words by 15 December 2016 tostalsworkshop2016@gmail.com. A Symposium Selection Committee will choose abstracts and notify all scholars no later than 20 January 2017. Full drafts of papers will be due by email to  stalsworkshop2016@gmail.com no later than 20 April 2016. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words (footnotes included).
The Convenors intend to seek publication of the papers presented at the conference either an edited volume or a special issue of a law journal, subject to successful blind peer-review. Papers submitted but not accepted may be considered for publication in the STALS Research Paper Series:  www.stals.sssup.it.
Costs:  There is no cost to participate in the Symposium. Participants are responsible for securing their own funding for travel, lodging and other incidental expenses. Scuola Sant’Anna will sponsor lunch and dinner on the day of the Symposium, as well as a welcome reception for participants on the evening prior to the Symposium.
Questions:  Please direct inquiries in connection with this Symposium to Giuseppe Martinico by email at  martinico@sssup.it.
Symposium Selection Committee

Richard Albert (Boston College Law School)

Antonia Baraggia (University of Milan)

Cristina Fasone (Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome)

Giuseppe Martinico (Scuola Sant’Anna, Pisa and Centre for Studies on Federalism, Turin) (Chair)

About the Scuola Sant’Anna , Pisa and the STALS (Sant’Anna Legal Studies) Project
Scuola Sant’Anna (http://www.santannapisa.it/en) is a public university institute provided with special autonomy. The main aim of the Scuola Sant’Anna is to experiment with innovative paths in education and research, so as to meet the modernization and innovation expectations of contemporary society. In line with this goal the Scuola Sant’Anna responds swiftly to each and every societal challenge by adopting a multidisciplinary and forward-looking approach.
Comparative and European Union law are also relevant matters in the research activities of ScuolaSant’Anna, especially in the framework of STALS (Sant’Anna Legal Studies:  http://www.stals.sssup.it), a project made possible thanks to the financial support offered by ScuolaSant’Anna, issued within the framework of the School’s internationalization policy, where both young and experienced scholars can share a space and propose papers that are classified by topics (European politics and policies; subnational constitutional law; constitutional developments; judicial dialogue and transnational law; European and international economic law; global legal pluralism), in order to foster discussion and research at the supranational level, promoting cooperation with other researchers abroad and organizing seminars and conferences with the participation of judges and members of EU institutions and international organizations.
Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors for supporting this Symposium:

1. Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna
2. The Sant'Anna Legal Studies Project
3. The Embassy of Canada
4. The International Association of Constitutional Law
5. Associazione di Diritto pubblico comparato ed europeo

Contact Info: 

Giuseppe Martinico, Scuola Sant'Anna, Pisa and Centre for Studies on Federalism, Turin

Contact Email: 

martinico@ssup.it

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Chambers: A Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015

A Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015 by Lori Chambers is now in print. Members who selected this as their book for 2016 will have already received it in the mail or should receive it shortly.

Professor Chambers’ book traces the history of adoption law in Ontario from 1921, when the first Adoption Act was passed, to the present. She details the origins and passage of that legislation and then examines a series of legal changes and accompanying controversies, from debates about the meaning of consent by birth mothers to same-sex adoption. Many of these controversies – adoption of aboriginal children, international adoption, secrecy in adoption records – have emerged in the last few decades, and this is therefore very much a ‘modern’ history of adoption law. In analyzing the development of the law Chambers skilfully weaves together statutes and cases with extra-legal debates over the meaning of parental and childrens’ rights. 

A Legal History of Adoption in Ontario, 1921-2015 is one of two members' books for the Osgoode Society this year. Members can receive either this, or Brad Miller's Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914. The book not selected as your member's book can be purchased as an 'optional extra.' Also available for purchase as an optional extra is Law, Debt and Merchant Power: The Civil Courts of Eighteenth-Century Halifax by James Muir. 

Join the Osgoode Society now and select your book. Students pay $21.50, others $50.00. You can also become a sustaining member or corporate sustaining member for $155.00 or $500 respectively.

Doug Hay elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

The Osgoode Society congratulates Doug Hay on his recent election as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. A very well deserved honour.

The entire announcement is well worth reading. Among other things, it says:

Douglas Hay has made a unique contribution both to the legal historiography of England and its former colonies and, more broadly, to interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship in Canada. He combines a comprehensive approach to source materials with innovative methodology and a broad understanding of law’s relationship to society. A prolific scholar, enthusiastic collaborator and generous mentor, he has influenced countless colleagues, students and professional peers in both law and history.

Session added to fall schedule of Osgoode Society workshop

Please add this to the schedule previously distributed. Note the date is the 7^th, not the 6^th as incorrectly stated earlier. 

Wednesday December 7 - Nelson Ouellet, University of Moncton: ‘Import/Export: The New Brunswick Workers’ Compensation System (1918-1932)

Osgoode Society oral histories database now online and searchable by keyword

Oral History at the Osgoode Society (blog post by Patricia McMahon, OS Oral History Coordinator)

Did you know that the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History has the world’s largest collection of oral histories relating to legal history?  Since 1979, the Society has conducted interviews with more 600 judges, judicial support staff, and senior members of the legal profession. It is a tremendous resource for historians and others who would like to learn more about the people who have shaped politics, business, and – of course – many areas of the law in Canada.

Now, you can search that collection by keyword at www.osgoodesociety.ca/oral-history to find oral history interviews dealing with a variety of topics. Full transcripts can be reviewed at the Archives of Ontario or by contacting the Osgoode Society.

The search engine is a work-in-progress and we welcome your feedback. You can reach the Osgoode Society at osgoodesociety@lsuc.on.ca.

New issue of Rechtsgeschichte focused on translation, of particular interest to legal historians working with indigenous languages and customs

Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History issue 24

The most recent issue of the journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has just been released and is now available online in open access and in print.

Rg 24 is dedicated to the concept of translation:

The research section opens the issue with a contribution from Gerhard Dilcher that has been translated into English: »The Germanists and the Historical School of Law: German Legal Science between Romanticism, Realism, and Rationalization«. This article is followed by an analysis by Jakob Zollmann that sheds light on an almost forgotten legal historical phenomenon, »Austrägalgerichtsbarkeit - Interstate Dispute Settlement in a Confederate Arrangement, 1815 to 1866«. Finally, Pedro Cardim addresses the expansive and fundamental field of research within legal history focusing on European empires, in particular the status of the overseas territories of the Iberian monarchy in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The first focus section, »Translators: Mediators in Legal Transfers«, deals with cultural translators of normativity, and the second focus, »Legal History in Action: Laying Down Indigenous Customs in Writing«, treats the translation of legal customs into writing – a translation into another medium. Such processes of translation may very well represent a key to understanding local, national, regional, or even global legal histories; however, in the past they have simply received insufficient consideration.

The two forum sections strive to provide a snapshot of a broad discussion concerning issues important to legal historical research. The first one poses the following question: what kind of research results can be expected from the much discussed »Digital Humanities«? In the second forum, legal historians were asked to assess the »State and Perspectives of the History of Social Law«.

In the critique section, important works within legal historical research published within the last two years are discussed, several of which also deal with translation. As always, we have again done our best to discuss as many publications as possible in a language other than that in which they were written. Journals are indeed also translators.

Click here to get to the Rg website, where you will find all contributions online in open access, or you can order a hardcopy directly from the publisher.

Hat tip: Nadine Goebel, publications manager of the Max Planck Institute. Any questions should be addressed to her at:
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte

Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Hansaallee 41

60323 Frankfurt am Main

Tel.: +49 (69) 789 78 – 200

Email: goebel@rg.mpg.de

Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop, Fall Term 2016 Schedule

Apologies for not posting this earlier. Note the first session is Wednesday of this week. Also note we have one open spot, December 6th. Please email Jim at j.phillips@utoronto.ca if you are interested in presenting.

OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP – FALL TERM 2016

All sessions in Jackman Building, Room 230. All  sessions start at 6.30 p.m

Wednesday September 14 – Ryan Alford, Lakehead University: ‘Understanding Judicial Tolerance of Executive Branch Unilateralism: Changing Dynamics in the American Federal Judicial Appointments Process 1972-2010.’  

Wednesday September 21 – Thomas Mohr, University College Dublin: TBA

Wednesday October 12 – Paul Craven, York University: “Just Cause – Industrial Discipline at Arbitration in the 1940s.”

Wednesday October 26 – Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia: “Dangerous Doctrine: Jurisdiction in the Northeastern Boundary Dispute.”

Thursday October 27 – 5 – 7 - Annual Osgoode Society Book Launch, and Opening Reception, American Society for Legal History Conference

Friday October 28 – American Society for Legal History Conference in Toronto

Saturday October 29 – American Society for Legal History Conference in Toronto

Wednesday November 9 – Suzie Chiodo, Osgoode Hall Law School: "Class Roots: The Genesis of the Ontario Class Proceedings Act, 1966-1992"

Wednesday November 23 – Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa:  “Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: A Feminist Legal Biography”

Wednesday December 6 - OPEN