Law & Society / Legal History

By Consent Alone reveals how medieval German literature responded to the evolving laws of marriage and consent in medieval Europe.

Bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection explores how feminism has influenced the connected histories of gender, class, race, labour, and colonialism.

Prairie Justice examines the gripping true story of a 1928 murder in Saskatchewan, highlighting themes of injustice and systemic flaws in the Canadian criminal justice system.

A fascinating journey into life and law in late nineteenth-century Canada, Deadly Swindle tells the story of one the country’s most sensational murder cases.

Drawing on ten significant criminal cases, this book sheds light on the development of the Canadian criminal justice system.

Drawing on a wide range of Old English literary and religious texts, Nothing Pure explores the cultural translation of Jewish law in pre-Conquest England.

Entangled Emancipation examines the struggle to redefine the gender order and women’s rights in East and West Germany after the Second World War.

This collection investigates historical cases involving women and gender relations in order to uncover the power dynamics at the heart of the legal system.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

By applying the techniques of linguistic anthropology to the pre-history of medicine, anatomical knowledge, and law, Lisi Oliver has produced a remarkable study that sheds new light on early Germanic conceptions of the body in terms of medical value, physiological function, psychological worth, and social significance.

Using the career histories of judges who challenged the system, Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered illuminates issues of judicial tenure, accountability, and independence throughout the British Empire.

The Daily Plebiscite offers a multi-faceted analysis of Canada’s national unity crisis from the perspective of someone who lived through it all.