Legal History Posts

The Vancouver Island Treaties and the Evolving Principles of Indigenous Title

Women Who Woke Up the Law
An excerpt from new book Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases That Changed Women's Rights in Canada.

Monopolies and Patents
A Study of the History and Future of the Patent Monopoly

The Witenagemot in the Reign of Edward the Confessor

Cases and Notes on Land Law

St Antoninus of Florence on Trade, Merchants, and Workers

Prairie Justice
The Hanging of Mike Hack

Heenan Blaikie
The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm

Heenan Blaikie
The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm

Deadly Swindle
An 1890 Murder in Backwoods Ontario that Gripped the World