Browse Books in Legal History

Qualities of Mercy
Justice, Punishment, and Discretion

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume III
Nova Scotia

Dewigged, Bothered, and Bewildered
British Colonial Judges on Trial, 1800-1900

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume II
Volume II

Public Law at the McLachlin Court
The First Decade

Westward Bound
Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society

Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America
Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles

A Mighty Empire
The Origins of the American Revolution

Feminized Justice
The Toronto Women’s Court, 1913-34

De la couleur des lois
Une histoire juridique du racisme au Canada entre 1900 et 1950

The Practice of Execution in Canada

The British Columbia Court of Appeal
The First Hundred Years

Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921

The Lunatic and the Lords

Carnal Crimes
Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975

The Grand Experiment
Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies

Impersonations
Troubling the Person in Law and Culture

The Promise and Perils of Law
Lawyers in Canadian History

Murdering Holiness
The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell

Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925

Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume X
A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver

A Passion for Justice
How 'Vinegar Jim' McRuer Became Canada's Greatest Law Reformer