Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk

by George Blaine Baker (Editor), Jim Phillips (Editor)

Overview

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442657618
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/1999
Series:	Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.35(d)

About the Author

George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. Jim Phillips is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of History at the University of Toronto.