Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop: Winter/Spring Schedule

Via the Canadian Legal History Blog, we have the winter/spring schedule for the Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop.
OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP – WINTER TERM 2015

Wednesday January 14: Joe Kary, Kary and Kwan: "Judgments Of Peace: An Unorthodox Court For The Orthodox And Not-So-Orthodox Jews Of Montreal, 1923-1973

Wednesday January 28: Open

Wednesday February 11: Jim Phillips, University of Toronto, "Restrictive Covenants: A Case Study in Nineteenth Century Ontario Legal Reception"

Wednesday February 25: Douglas Hay, Osgoode Hall Law School, TBA

Wednesday March 4: Elsbeth Heaman, McGill University, "“Legal Fictions of Fairness: Corporate Tax Revolt in fin-de siècle Ontario”

Wednesday March 18: Rande Kostal, Western University, "Constructing the Rule of Law in Occupied Japan, 1945-48"

Wednesday April 1 - Myra Tawfik, University of Windsor, "The Impact of Canada's First Copyright Act (Lower Canada 1832) on Authors, Publishers and Schoolbook Production”
Scholars interested in the open slot are invited to contact Jim Phillips (j.phillips@utoronto.ca).