Browse Books in Legal History

Controversies in the Common Law
Tracing the Contributions of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin

Building Justice
Frank Iacobucci and the Life Cycles of Law

The Pen, the Sword, and the Law
Dueling and Democracy in Uruguay

Faith, Force, and Reason
An Armchair History of the Rule of Law

Debt and Federalism
Landmark Cases in Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, 1894-1937

Disputing New France
Companies, Law, and Sovereignty in the French Atlantic, 1598-1663

To Share, Not Surrender
Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia

The Daily Plebiscite
Federalism, Nationalism, and Canada

In the Public Good
Eugenics and Law in Ontario

No Legal Way Out
R v Ryan, Domestic Abuse, and the Defence of Duress

Picturing Punishment
The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic

The Magic of Rogues
Necromancers in Early Tudor England

Laws of the Constitution
Consolidated

Doodem and Council Fire
Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance

Corporate Cataclysm
Abitibi Power & Paper and the Collapse of the Newsprint Industry, 1912-1946

The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History

Taking the Bite Out of Rabies
The Evolution of Rabies Management in Canada

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law
A History of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act

From Wardship to Rights
The Guerin Case and Aboriginal Law
Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy
The Biography of an Enigma

Faith or Fraud
Fortune-Telling, Spirituality, and the Law

Wounded Feelings
Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1950

By the Court
Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada