Are you interested in history of black labour and the law in late 18th century Canada? Or the medical-legal history of "certification" of insanity?

 

Upcoming Events   Join us for an Evening of Canadian Legal History  Spots still available November 18, 2020 at 5:30 via Zoom This event will explore the work of our 2019 McMurtry Fellowship recipients.   Anna Jarvis, Black labour, loyalism, and the law in late eighteenth-century British North America In 1783 five siblings of the Jarvis family of Stamford, Connecticut, were forced to flee the City of New York as part of the Loyalist diaspora following the American revolutionary war, bringing notions of race and labour with them. This diaspora included black Loyalists and black slaves who were to become part of the black population of the British North American colonies. The Jarvis siblings would profit from black labour by various then legal means, including indenture and enslavement, reflecting the varying degrees of bound and free black labour under negotiation in British North America at the end of the eighteenth century. Filippo Sposini, Just the Basic Facts: The Certification of Insanity in Ontario (1870s-1890s) The certification of insanity was a medico-legal procedure regulating admission into psychiatric institutions. This presentation will focus on the certification procedure developed during the second half of the nineteenth-century in Ontario. Taking the Toronto Lunatic Asylum as a case study, it will explore the introduction of certificates of insanity, examination practices, and people involved in the process. It will show that certification in Ontario was a consensus-based procedure shielding medical practitioners from potential legal actions. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER and Renew Your Membership for 2020.

Bohaker, Doodem and Council Fire to be published at the end of the month

 We are pleased to announce that this year our members’ book, Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance by Heidi Bohaker, is scheduled to be published at the end of this month. If you are a member the book will be sent to you automatically.

Not only is this book an exhaustively researched account of the legal traditions of one of the Indigenous peoples of Canada, it is also elaborately illustrated and would make a wonderful Christmas gift!  To purchase a gift membership, or to renew your membership, please visit our website

Tenure stream appointment at Dal in Canadian History with Justice, Law and Society focus

h/t Shirley Tillotson 

Assistant Professor of Canadian History Posting Number F142P 

Tenure Stream 

Department/Unit History Location Halifax 

About the opportunity: The Department of History at Dalhousie University invites applications from junior academics for an early-career tenure-stream position in nineteenth- or twentieth-century Canadian History at the Assistant Professor level, effective 1 July 2021. The position is open to historians of Canada with a focus on Law, Justice and Society. Furthermore, the committee is particularly but not exclusively interested in historians whose research addresses transnational issues and/or the carceral state. Although prior teaching experience is not necessary, the successful candidate will be expected to teach two courses that qualify for the Law, Justice and Society program [HIST 3226, Law and Justice in Canadian Society to 1890, and HIST 3227, Criminal Law, Crime, and Punishment in Canada, 1890 to the Present], with the other courses to be determined in consultation between the candidate and the Department. The courses will include both seminars and lectures. The Department of History has both MA and PhD programmes in Canadian History. Therefore, some graduate teaching is expected. Applicants must have a PhD in hand by 1 July 2021 and demonstrate potential for excellence as a teacher and a scholar. The position is subject to budgetary approval. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 

Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Indigenous persons, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community. For more information, please visit https://www.dal.ca/hiringfordiversity Applications will be accepted until December 1 and must include the following: • A letter of application addressed to the Search Committee (maximum 2 pages) • A complete CV • A teaching dossier that addresses teaching effectiveness and philosophy • A representative publication, if applicable, or a writing sample of not more than 20 pages • Names and contact details for three referees; reference letters will be solicited after the files are reviewed. Please apply for this position directly via PeopleAdmin. The posting can be found at http://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/4620 Established in 1818, Dalhousie is a leading research-intensive university offering more than 180 degree programs across 13 faculties. It is the largest university in Atlantic Canada and is located in the heart of Halifax, a scenic coastal city and capital of Nova Scotia, which is home to 13 Mi’kmaq First Nations, a deeply rooted historical African Canadian community, and an increasingly diverse population. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is a dynamic body of students, faculty, and staff arranged into upwards of twenty programs and departments, many offering graduate degrees. Further information about the Department and the University can be obtained at http://www.dal.ca/history. Open Date 10/22/2020 Close Date 12/01/2020 Open Until Filled No Quick Link for Direct Access to Posting http://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/4620 Documents Needed to Apply Required Documents Résumé / Curriculum Vitae (CV) Cover Letter Teaching Dossier Sample Publication(s) List of referees Optional Documents

Legal Histories of Empire Symposium, 30/31 October 2020, by zoom: time dependent on time zone, free but registration required

h/t Lyndsay Campbell Legal Histories of Empire Symposium: Rohit De and Catherine Evans Posted on October 15, 2020by anzlhswebsite Please join us for the first of several planned symposia in 2020 and 2021 for Legal Histories of Empire and for the celebration of a special birthday of the founder of the Legal Histories of Empire Conferences. Our speakers: Rohit De: “Brown Lawyers, Black Robes: Decolonization, Diasporic Lawyers and Minority Rights” Rohit De is Associate Professor of History at Yale University and is the author of A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (2018). As a Carnegie Fellow, he is currently working on a book on a history of rebellious lawyering and decolonization Catherine Evans: “Civilization as Sanity in the Victorian Empire” Catherine L. Evans is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her first book, Unsound Empire: Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law, comes out next fall (Yale University Press, 2021). Timezones: New Haven/Toronto @ 4 pm on 30 October Vancouver @ 1pm on 30 October Sydney @ 7 am on 31 October Auckland @ 9 am on 31October London/Dublin @ 8 pm on 30 October Singapore @ 4 am on 31 October Registration: Free via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/legal-histories-of-empire-symposium-tickets-125282891501 Registration is required. You will be emailed a Zoom link 36 hours before the event.

Members' Book delayed until November

 Because of covid-19, natch.

Traditionally our annual members’ book has been published and sent to members by now. This year our members’ book, Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance by Heidi Bohaker, has been delayed. This book is elaborately illustrated and, with COVID-19 closures, obtaining permissions for these illustrations from museums and archives has been a challenge. We have been given a publication date of the end of November and will send books immediately upon publication. If there are further delays we will let all members know.  If you have not yet renewed your membership there is still time to do so and receive the book! Please visit our website at to join now. Thank you for your patience during these challenging times.

Sign up for zoom event on Black Activism and the History of Rights in Canada!

 

An Evening of Canadian Legal History – Prof. Jim Walker, “Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada”

Sep 23, 2020 - 5:30 PM at ZOOM On-Line Event

We will be resuming our evening legal history talks in the fall. They will be conducted over Zoom and there will be a question and comment period after each talk.

Jim Walker, Professor of History, Waterloo University: ‘Legacies: The Impact of Black Activism on the History of Rights in Canada.’

Event is open to all who sign up in advance.

https://www.osgoodesociety.ca/event/an-evening-of-canadian-legal-history-3/

If you have questions about the society or this event, please contact Amanda Campbell amanda.campbell@osgoodesociety.ca

Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop Fall 2020 schedule

Friends. I have pasted in below the final schedule for the legal history workshop for the fall term. A reminder that we will be conducting the workshop over Zoom. I don’t think we need to December 9^th date, but if anybody is keen an extra session could be arranged for December

 

Jim

 

LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP 2020-2021: FALL TERM SCHEDULE

Wednesday September 16 – Virginia Torrie, University of Manitoba: ‘The Farmers' Creditors Arrangement Act Reference Case 1937.’

 Wednesday September 30 – Hamar Foster, University of Victoria: ‘Sharp as a Knife: Judge Begbie and Reconciliation’

 

Wednesday October 14 - Nick Rogers, York University: ‘The Bristol fratricide of 1741: How a set of vicious property disputes among the minor gentry turned fatal.’

 

Wednesday October 28 – Jim Phillips, University of Toronto: ‘From Betrayal of the Metis to Restrictive Covenants: Developments in Dominion Land Law, 1867-1914.’

 

Wednesday November 11 – Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, University of Toronto, ‘Étienne Parent and the Demise of the Mixed Constitution’.

 

Wednesday November 25 – Lara Tessaro, University of Kent: ‘Constituting a form for substances: Cosmetics, federalism, and the turn to prohibition in Canadian food and drugs regulation, 1933-1950.’

 

Wednesday December 9 – Available if needed