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

This volume presents a history of the development of three legal traditions in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English.

Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.

This third volume of Essays in the History of Canadian Law presents thoroughly researched, original essays in Nova Scotian legal history.

In Bora Laskin, Girard chronicles the life of a man who, at all points of his life, was a fighter for a better Canada: he fought antisemitism, corporate capital, omnipotent university boards, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and his own judicial colleagues in an effort to modernize institutions and re-shape Canadian law.

Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.