About Peter Oliver Peter Oliver is a professor in the Department of History at York University and Editor-in-Chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Books by Peter Oliver The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution edited by Peter Oliver, Patrick Macklem & Nathalie Des Rosiers The Conventional Man The Diaries of Ontario Chief Justice Robert A. Harrison, 1856-1878 edited by Peter Oliver 'Terror to Evil-Doers' Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario by (author) Peter Oliver G. Howard Ferguson Ontario Tory by (author) Peter Oliver