Browse Books in Legal History

Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

The Lunatic and the Lords

Carnal Crimes
Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975

The Grand Experiment
Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies

Impersonations
Troubling the Person in Law and Culture

The Promise and Perils of Law
Lawyers in Canadian History

Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

Essays in the History of Canadian Law
A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver

A Passion for Justice
How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer

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

The Evolution of Resource Property Rights

Negotiating Responsibility
Law, Murder, and States of Mind

Just Works
Lawyers in Alberta, 1907–2007

The Courts and the Colonies
The Litigation of Hutterite Church Disputes

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

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

Under Arrest
Canadian Laws You Won't Believe

The Laskin Legacy
Essays in Commemoration of Chief Justice Bora Laskin

Magistrates, Police, and People
Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764-1837

The Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba, 1870-1950
A Biographical History

A History of Canadian Legal Thought
Collected Essays

A Jurisprudence of Power
Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law

Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies
Infanticide in Canada

Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Two Islands, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island