{"product_id":"lawyers-and-legal-culture-in-british-north-america-9781442644106","title":"Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning biographer Philip Girard, \u003cem\u003eLawyers and Legal Culture in British North America \u003c\/em\u003eis the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers  a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGirard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers'' roles as community leaders and as legal professionals. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), \u003cem\u003eLawyers and Legal Culture in British North America\u003c\/em\u003e makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Introduction  II Antecedents  III Apprenticeship  IV The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia:  Organization and Mobility   V The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-1827  VI The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-1850  VII The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer:  Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government      VIII Law and Politics in the Colonial City:  Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-1860   IX Law, Identity and Improvement:  Murdoch as Cultural Producer   X Epilogue  XI Conclusion  Appendix A","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408366281047,"sku":"9781442644106","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442644106.jpg?v=1730502635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lawyers-and-legal-culture-in-british-north-america-9781442644106","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}