Legal History Posts

My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures

Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights

Negotiating Responsibility
Law, Murder, and States of Mind

Murdering Holiness
The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell

Just Works
Lawyers in Alberta, 1907–2007

The Persons Case
The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood

Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies
Infanticide in Canada

Regulating Lives
Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law

Taxing Choices
The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law

The Courts and the Colonies
The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes