Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Girard, Philip

Titel

Who's Afraid of Canadian Legal History?

Ist Teil von

• The University of Toronto law journal, 2007-11, Vol.57 (4), p.727-754

Ort / Verlag

University of Toronto Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The 'new legal history' has flourished in Canada over the last three decades, ever since Andre´ Morel and John Brierley began their pioneering work in the history of Quebec law in the 1960s and R.C.B. Risk published his 'Prospectus for the Study of Canadian Legal History' in 1973. A recent survey of the field describes this body of scholarship as striking in its diversity in substance, theoretical context and methodology,... a far cry from the concerns of traditional English history focused primarily, as it was, on the evolution of the common law, the Royal courts, and the cast of characters who administered them and made decisions or practiced in them... [T]he focus of contemporary legal historical scholarship in Canada... extend[s] well beyond the courts and their denizens to law and legal culture in all its complexity.