Borderline Crime: Fugitive Criminals and the Challenge of the Border, 1819-1914

‘Miller’s excellent book is a welcome addition to work on extradition examining everyday legal practices and their underlying jurisprudence foundations… It provides an important study into the intersection between international, British imperial and Canadian law.’

Emily Whewell, Legal History vol 25:2017

"An important and helpful book for legal historians of the Canada-US border, [Borderline Crime] lays a framework for examining how the border was interpreted as a legal and political entity during its most formative years in the nineteenth century. "

Brandon Dimmel, BC Studies no. 198, Summer 2018

"This is a scholarly, closely argued book, but it will have appeal to a wide audience. Bradley Miller illustrates his themes with engaging and entertaining examples and writes clearly and concisely…Borderline Crime should become required reading in colonial, early Canadian, and North American international and diplomatic history."

Lori Chambers, Lakehead University, University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018

"Professor Miller’s fascinating book makes a valuable contribution to international legal history and to our understanding of the relationships between international, British imperial and Canadian law at the high and low levels – which turn out to look remarkably different from one another – and of circuits of law within the British Empire."

Karen Knop, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"Miller is not only intimately familiar with but also extensively and very appropriately uses the internal literature on extradition, asylum, and related issues as the foundation of his study. Borderline Crime is an intriguing and illuminating study."

Jane Errington, Department of History, Queen’s University