Jim Phillips

Jim Phillips is Professor of Law, History and Criminology at the University of Toronto, and editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. He has co-edited four volumes of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History’s Essays in the History of Canadian Law and, with Philip Girard, a volume on the history of Canada’s oldest surviving superior common law court, The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle (Osgoode Society, 2004). He has published over fifty articles and book chapters on British imperial history and 18th-century India, on property and charities law, US legal history, and, principally, Canadian legal history. He is also the author, with Rosemary Gartner, of Murdering Holiness: The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell (University of British Columbia Press, 2003).

Books by Jim Phillips

A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volume 2

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III

Murdering Holiness

A History of Canadian Legal Thought

Between State and Market

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V