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Canada's Legal Pasts presents 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.Telling 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 archival
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. This is Canadian legal history as
you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts 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.
Truth and Privilege is a comparative study that brings together
legal, constitutional and social history to explore the common
law's diverging paths in two kindred places committed to freedom of
expression but separated by the American Revolution. Comparing Nova
Scotia and Massachusetts, Lyndsay Campbell examines the development
of libel law, the defences of truth and privilege, and the place of
courts as fora for disputes. She contrasts courts' centrality in
struggles over expression and the interpretation of individual
rights in Massachusetts with concerns about defining protective
boundaries for the press and individuals through institutional
design in Nova Scotia. Campbell's rich analysis acts as a lens
through which to understand the role of law in shaping societal
change in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the essential
question we still grapple with today: what should law's role be in
regulating expression we perceive as harmful?
Canada's Legal Pasts presents 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. Telling 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. This is Canadian legal history as
you've never seen it before. Canada's Legal Pasts 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.
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