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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

Law for a New Dominion, 1867-1914

by (author) Jim Phillips, Philip Girard & R. Blake Brown

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

Beginnings to 1866

by (author) Philip Girard, Jim Phillips & R. Blake Brown

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

Beginnings to 1866

by (author) Philip Girard, Jim Phillips & R. Blake Brown

Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volume 1

Settlement and Governance, 1812-1872

by (author) Dale Gibson
foreword by Jim Phillips

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

General Quarterly Court of Assiniboia, Annotated Records, 1844-1872

by (author) Dale Gibson
foreword by Jim Phillips

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III

Nova Scotia

by (author) Philip Girard & Jim Phillips

A History of Canadian Legal Thought

Collected Essays

by (author) R.C.B. Risk
edited by George Blain Baker & Jim Phillips

Between State and Market

Essay on Charities Law and Policy in Canada

by (author) Jim Phillips, Bruce Chapman & David Stevens

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII

In Honour of R.C.B. Risk

edited by George Blain Baker & Jim Phillips

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII

In Honour of R.C.B. Risk

edited by George Blain Baker & Jim Phillips

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V

Crime and Criminal Justice

edited by Susan Lewthwaite, Tina Loo & Jim Phillips

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume V

Crime and Criminal Justice

edited by Susan Lewthwaite, Tina Loo & Jim Phillips