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Author Risk, R. C. B., 1936- author.

Title A history of Canadian legal thought : collected essays / R.C.B. Risk ; edited and introduced by G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips
Published Toronto, Ontario : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource
Series Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Contents pt. 1. The classical age : Canadian legal thought in the late nineteenth century -- 1. Constitutional scholarship in the late nineteenth century : making federalism work -- 2. A.H.F. Lefroy : common law thought in late-nineteenth-century Canada -- on burying one's grandfather -- 3. Rights talk in Canada in the late nineteenth century : 'the good sense and right feeling of the people' -- 4. Blake and liberty -- 5. John Skirving Ewart : the legal thought -- 6. Sir William R. Meredith, CJO : the search for authority -- pt. 2. The challenge of modernity : Canadian legal thought in the 1930s -- 7. Volume one of the journal : a tribute and a belated review -- 8. The scholars and the constitution : POGG and the Privy Council
Summary 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 takes pride in and urges us to celebrate
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Law -- Canada -- Philosophy -- History
Law -- Canada -- History
Law -- Study and teaching -- Canada -- History
Jurisprudence -- Canada -- History
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Jurisprudence
Law -- Study and teaching
Law
Law -- Philosophy
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Baker, G. Blaine, editor, author of introduction.
Phillips, Jim, 1954- editor, author of introduction.
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
LC no. 2007273041
ISBN 9781442657151
1442657154
9781442659193
144265919X