Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America

Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

Philip Girard (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2011
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4410-6 (ISBN)

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From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is 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.

Girard 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), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history.

Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.

I 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

Reihe/Serie	Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Zusatzinfo	1 b&w illustration
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 236 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4426-4410-9 / 1442644109
ISBN-13	978-1-4426-4410-6 / 9781442644106
Zustand	Neuware