The promise and perils of law : lawyers in Canadian history / Constance Backhouse & W. Wesley Pue, co-editors.

Toronto : Irwin Law, c2009.

1st edition

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Lawyers -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.

Practice of law -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.

Law -- Study and teaching -- Canada -- History -- Congresses.

1. Introduction

2. An introduction to Osgoode Hall on its 175th anniversary : more than bricks and mortar

Part I. Historical perspectives on legal education

3. Slamming the door on brains : two early twentieth-century law schools and the narrowing of educational opportunity

4. Good government, without him, is well-nigh impossible : training future (male) lawyers for politics in Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, 1920-1960

Part II. Historical reflections on the practice of law

5. Stratification, economic adversity, and diversity in an urban bar

6. Megafirm : a chronology for the large law firm in Canada

Part III. Quebec : a distinct legal history

7. Civil law, legal practitioners, and everyday justice in the decades following the Quebec Act of 1774

8. The legal profession and penal justice in Quebec City, 1856-1965 : from modernity to anti-modernity

Part IV. The rule of law, impeachment, and bureaucratic regulation

9. The court and the legal profession : loyalist lawyers and the Nova Scotia Supreme Court in the 1780s

10. Guardians of Liberty : R.M.W. Chitty and the wartime idea of constitutional rights

Part V. Race issues : diversifying the bar and its legal strategies

11. Ethelbert Lionel Cross : Toronto's first black lawyer

12. If your life is a leaf : Arthur Eugene O'Meara's campaign for aboriginal justice

Part VI. Gender issues : the impact of women on the profession

13. Into the rough of things : women lawyers in British Columbia, 1912-1930

14. A revolution in numbers : Ontario feminist lawyers in the formative years 1970s to the 1990s.

Papers presented at the symposium, Law Society of Upper Canada Symposium on the History of the Canadian Legal Profession, held October 12, 2007 at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Ont.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781552211663

viii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm