Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VIII
In Honour of R.C.B. Risk

George Blaine Baker (Edited by), Jim Phillips (Edited by)

9781442657618

Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1999

606 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.82 kg

This volume in the Osgoode Society's distinguished series on the history of Canadian law is a tribute to Professor R.C.B. Risk, one of the pioneers of Canadian legal history and for many years regarded as its foremost authority. The fifteen original essays are by notable scholars, some of whom were students of Professor Risk, and represent some of the best and most original work in the area of Canadian legal history. They cover a number of important topics that range from the form of the criminal trial in the eighteenth century, to debates over the meaning of property in the nineteenth, and to lawyer/poet Tom MacInnes's views on the law of aboriginal title in the twentieth century.