{"product_id":"canadas-legal-pasts-looking-foreward-looking-back-9781773851167","title":"Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Foreward, Looking Back","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eCanada's Legal Pasts \u003c\/em\u003epresents new essays on a range of topics and episodes in Canadian legal history, provides an introduction to legal methodologies, shows researchers new to the field how to locate and use a variety of sources, and includes a combined bibliography arranged to demonstrate best practices in gathering and listing primary sources. It is an essential welcome for scholars who wish to learn about Canada's legal pasts - and why we study them. \u003cp\u003eTelling new stories - about a fishing vessel that became the subject of an extraordinarily long diplomatic dispute, young Northwest Mounted Police constables subject to an odd mixture of police discipline and criminal procedure, and more, this book presents the vibrant evolution of Canada's legal tradition. Explorations of primary sources, including provincial archive records that suggest how Quebec courts have been used in interfamilial conflict, newspaper records that disclose the details of bigamy cases, and penitentiary records that reveal the details of the lives and legal entanglements of Canada's most marginalized people, show the many different ways of researching and understanding legal history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is Canadian legal history as you've never seen it before. \u003cem\u003eCanada's Legal Pasts\u003c\/em\u003e dives into new topics in Canada's fascinating history and presents practical approaches to legal scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars in collection essential for researchers at all levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword: A Student's Take on Canada's Legal Pasts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eNick Austin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Canada's Legal Pasts: Looking Forward, Looking Back\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTed McCoy, Lyndsay Campbell, Mélanie Méthot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Illuminating Cases\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFamily Defamation in Quebec: The View from the Archives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eEric H. Reiter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting Penitentiary History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eTed McCoy \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnalyzing Bigamy Cases without Archival Records: It Is Possible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eMélanie Méthot \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrial Pamphlets and Newspaper Accounts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eLyndsay Campbell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Last Voyage of the Frederick Gerring, Jr\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristopher Shorey \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Textbook Edition of Kent's Commentaries Used in the Gerring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAngela Fernandez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Exploring Systems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmpire's Law: Archives and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eCatharine MacMillan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractising Law in the \"\"Lawyerless\"\" Colony of New France\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlexandra Havrylyshyn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoursuivre son mari en justice au Bas-Canada: femmes mariées et coutume de Paris devant la cour du Banc du roi (1795-1830) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eJean-Philippe Garneau\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGetting Their Man: The NWMP as Accused in the Territorial Criminal Court in the Canadian North-West, 1876-1905\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelley A.M. Gavigan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Writing Legal History: Past, Present and Future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSex Discrimination in Law: From Equal Citizenship to Human Rights Law\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eDominique Clément\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLegal-Historical Writing for the Canadian Prairies: Past, Present, Future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eLouis A. Knafla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimary source bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSecondary source bibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Calgary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51863828791639,"sku":"9781773851167","price":29.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781773851167.jpg?v=1759921197","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canadas-legal-pasts-looking-foreward-looking-back-9781773851167","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}