Coming from UTP: Roots of Entanglement: Essays in the History of Native Newcomer Relations

Coming in January 2018 (available for pre-order) from U of T Press:

Roots of Entanglement: Essays in the History of Native Newcomer Relations, edited by Myra Rutherdale, Whitney Lackenbauer, and Kerry Abel.

Canadian legal historians will be interested in Part IV, Law, Legislation, and History, including the following:

They Have Suffered the Most: First Nations and the Aftermath of the 1885 North-West Rebellion, Bill Waiser

“Powerless To Protect”: Ontario Game Protection Legislation, Unreported and Indetermined Case Law, and the Criminalization of Indian Hunting in the Robinson Treaty Territories, 1892-1931, Frank Tough

One Good Thing: Law and Elevator Etiquette in the Indian Territories, Hamar Foster

Reclaiming History through the Courts: Aboriginal Rights, the Marshall Decision, and Maritime History, Kenneth S. Coates

CFP: ASLH Student Colloquium at 2017 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas

via H-Law:

CFP: ASLH Student Research Colloquium on Wednesday before 2017 ASLH Annual Meeting in Las Vegas

by Charles Zelden

The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26, 2017, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.  The SRC enables a small number of Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and law review articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars.
The SRC’s target audience includes early-post-coursework graduate students and historically minded law students.  The colloquium seeks to introduce such students to legal history, to each other, to the ASLH, and to the legal-historical scholarly community generally.  Students working in all chronological and geographical fields are encouraged to apply, as are students whose projects engage legal-historical themes but who have not yet received any formal training in legal history.  Applicants who have not had an opportunity to present their work at ASLH annual meetings or who have not otherwise had an opportunity to discuss their work with legal historians are particularly encouraged to apply.  A student may be on the program for the annual meeting and participate in the SRC in the same year.
Each participating student will pre-circulate a twenty-page, double-spaced, footnoted paper to the entire group.  The group will discuss these papers at the colloquium, under the guidance of two faculty directors.  The ASLH will provide at least partial and, in most cases, total reimbursement for travel, hotel, and conference-registration costs.
The application deadline is July 15, 2017.  Applicants should submit:

• a cover letter;
• a CV;
• a two-page, single-spaced “research statement,” describing an in-progress project; and
• a letter of recommendation from a faculty member, sent separately from, or together with, the other materials.

Organizers will notify all applicants of their decisions by August 15, 2017.  Please direct questions and applications to John Wertheimer at:  srcproposals@aslh.net. 

Linda Silver Dranoff, Fairly Equal: Lawyering the Feminist Revolution

New from Second Story Press and the Feminist History Society, Fairly Equal: Lawyering the Feminist Revolution by Linda Silver Dranoff.

The publisher's blurb:

An eyewitness account of the revolution in women’s rights under the law.

Lawyer, activist, and former Chatelaine legal columnist Linda Silver Dranoff details her own trailblazing journey from a traditional 1950s childhood to the battlegrounds of the courts of law and the halls of power where she and a generation of women lawyers, supporting a larger feminist movement, championed the rights of Canadian women and families.

Through a combination of memoir and social history, Dranoff brings to life the struggles around family law, pay and employment equity, violence against women, abortion rights, childcare, pension rights, political engagement, public policy, and access to legal justice. From backroom battles to public and private protest, the stories are inspiring.

Fairly Equal reminds us of the importance of remaining vigilant about our rights. Knowing what Dranoff’s generation of women lawyers and activists achieved, and how easily it can be taken away, we are encouraged in sisterhood and solidarity to ensure that the many hard-won gains of the feminist movement are maintained and expanded for the women who follow.

Public Lecture: Chris Moore, Ten Events in Canadian Law that one should know

Christopher Moore will speak on

"Ten Events in Canadian Law that one should know" at the Deer Park Public Library, Toronto on May 23rd

From the Toronto Public Libary website:

Tue May 23, 2017

6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

75 mins

Deer Park Program Room - 2nd Floor

Christopher Moore, "Ten Events in Canadian Law that Canadians should know" From the British North America Act to the Charter of Rights, Christopher Moore will explore moments in Canadian law that have defined our rights, our freedoms, and our obligations to each other.
Christopher Moore is Canada's most versatile writer of history.

Ticketed event. Call or pick up in person. May 20

http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT289630&R=EVT289630

Nominations sought for Peter Oliver Prize for published student writing

The Osgoode Society is seeking nominations for the Peter Oliver Prize in Canadian Legal History.

The Peter Oliver Prize in Canadian Legal History was established by the Society in 2006 in honour of Professor Peter Oliver, the Society's founding editor-in-chief. The prize is awarded annually for published work (journal article, book chapter, book) in Canadian legal history written by a student.

Students in any discipline at any stage of their careers are eligible. The Society takes a broad view of legal history, one that includes work in socio-legal history, legal culture, etc., as well as work on the history of legal institutions, legal personnel, and substantive law.
Students may self-nominate their published work, and faculty members are also encouraged to nominate student work of which they are aware. Those nominating their own work should send a copy of it to the Society.
The deadline for nominations for the 2017 Prize, to be awarded for work published in 2016, is April 30, 2017.
Please send nominations to Professor Jim Phillips, Editor-in-Chief, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 2N6, or by email to j.phillips@utoronto.ca.

Thompson, On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

New from UBC press, On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, by Andrew S. Thompson.

Here's what the publisher has to say:
When it comes to upholding human rights both at home and abroad, many Canadians would like to believe that we have always been "on the side of the angels." This book tells the story of Canada’s contributions -- both good and bad -- to the development and advancement of international human rights law at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) from its creation in 1946 to its dissolution in 2006. 

The CHR gave Canada the opportunity to forge a reputation as a human rights leader, while simultaneously advancing international laws and reforms that served its strategic interests as well as those of its allies. This book scrutinizes this reputation by examining Canada’s involvement in a number of contentious human rights issues -- political, civil, racial, women’s, Indigenous, and, in particular, the response to mass human rights violations. It finds that Canada’s record was mixed, its priorities motivated by a variety of considerations, both domestic and international. 

An in-depth historical overview of six decades of Canadian engagement within the UN human rights system, On The Side of the Angels offers new insights into the nuances, complexities, and contradictions of Canada’s human rights policies. It also reveals that, despite its limitations, the international human rights law established at the UN offers the best hope of a world in which all citizens are able to enjoy a dignified existence.

Schneiderman, Canadian Constitutional Culture: A Genealogical Account on SSRN

David Schneiderman of the U of T Faculty of Law has posted 

Canadian Constitutional Culture: A Genealogical Account on SSRN. The essay will appear in the Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (ed. by Nathalie Des Rosiers, Patrick Macklem,and Peter Oliver, Forthcoming).

Abstract:

How might one explain Canadian constitutional practices that have produced outcomes that are, within limits, heterogeneous and pluralistic? The chapter inquires into this question by tapping into constitutional culture, referring to dominant understandings of the fundamental norms that guide relations between citizens and states and between institutions of the state. Contemporary constitutional culture, it is argued, is partly the product of choices made in the past by imperial and early Canadian authorities. Taking a genealogical approach to Canadian constitutional culture, the chapter examines three episodes in Canada’s constitutional past that help to frame discussions about the constitutional present. Each illustrates the difficulty of governing those who are different; of aspiring to homogeneity while necessitating some heterogeneity in practice. They are representative samples of the waves of accommodation and assimilation that have been recurring features in Canada’s constitutional story and illustrative of the basic elements that make up Canadian constitutional culture.