Law & Society

This book explores how Canadian courts adapt international human trafficking laws, while also examining how trafficking cases are policed and prosecuted, defended, and judged.

This book traces the dissolution of the household and the construction of the family in English law and legal thought in the long nineteenth century.

This book recounts the many and varied transformations in the history of law in Canada in the half century after Confederation.

The final volume of the Osgoode Society’s Canadian State Trials series sheds light on the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats in Canada in the twentieth century.

In this unique collection, Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors relate their own experiences with teaching and conducting research involving Indigenous peoples and their rights.

This book sheds light on the fraught relationship between birth and citizenship, particularly in the Canadian context.

Controversies in the Common Law identifies some of the thorniest problems in private and public law, and explains how Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin addressed them by applying a common law approach to judging.

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.

Public Inquiries provides first-hand insights and expert perspectives on Canada’s policy-making process.

Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.

Picking Up the Slack examines how Canadian law has failed to address climate change and offers an accessible basis for a new approach.

The fifth edition of Centuries of Genocide combines highly informative essays on major genocides with powerful first-person survivor testimonies.

Offering diverse perspectives on Daniel Paul Scheber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, this volume uses law and legal thought to uncover fundamental questions about the nature of law and gender, sexuality and normativity.

Paradoxes of Professional Regulation draws on case-studies to develop a coherent and consistent set of regulatory principles for regulating diverse professions.

Faith, Force, and Reason follows the way legal thinking has evolved over time and explains how the rule of law has come to replace faith and force as the accepted method of conflict resolution.

Judicializing Everything? focuses on judicial decision-making in parliamentary states that have recently adopted bills of rights.