{"product_id":"a-history-of-canadian-legal-thought-9780802094247","title":"A History of Canadian Legal Thought","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume in the Osgoode Society''s distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a collection of the principal essays of Professor Emeritus R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority on the history of Canadian legal thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Scott, Bora Laskin, W.P.M. Kennedy, John Willis and Edward Blake are among the better known figures whose thinking and writing about law are featured in this collection. But this compilation of the most important essays by a pioneer in Canadian legal history brings to light many other lesser known figures as well, whose writings covered a wide range of topics, from estoppel to the British North America Act to the purpose of legal education. Written over more than two decades, and covering the immediate post-Confederation period to the 1960s, these essays reveal a distinctive Canadian tradition of thinking about the nature and functions of law, one which Risk clearly tak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFOREWARD   Introduction   PART ONE   The Classical Age: Canadian Legal Thought in the   Late Nineteenth Century   * Constitutional Scholarship in the Late Nineteenth Century:     Making Federalism Work  * A.H.F. Lefroy: Common Law Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century     Canada - On Burying One's Grandfather  * Rights Talk in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century: 'The Good     Sense and Right Feeling of the People'  * Blake and Liberty  * John Skirving Ewart: The Legal Thought  * Sir William R. Meredith, CJO: The Search for Authority  PART TWO   The Challenge of Modernity: Canadian Legal Thought   in the 1930s   * Volume One of the Journal: A Tribute and a Belated Review   * The Scholars and the Constitution: POGG and the     Privy Council  * John Willis: A Tribute  * The Many Minds of W.P.M. Kennedy  * Canadian Law Teachers in the 1930s: 'When the World Was     Turned Upside Down'  PART THREE Postwar Developments   * On the Road to Oz: Common Law Scholarship about Federalism     after World War II\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405230055767,"sku":"9780802094247","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-canadian-legal-thought-9780802094247","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}