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• Title:The promise and perils of law : lawyers in Canadian history / Constance Backhouse & W. Wesley Pue, co-editors.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Backhouse, Constance, 1952-
  Pue, W. Wesley.
  
• Conference/Event:Law Society of Upper Canada Symposium on the History of the Canadian Legal Profession (2007 : Toronto, Ont.)
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Irwin Law, ©2009.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KE330 .L38 2009 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:LAW LIBRARY special collections (non-circulating)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KE330 .L38 2009 (LC)
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lawyers--Canada--History--Congresses.
  Practice of law--Canada--History--Congresses.
  Law--Study and teaching--Canada--History--Congresses.
  
• Description:viii, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Papers presented at the symposium, Law Society of Upper Canada Symposium on the History of the Canadian Legal Profession, held October 12, 2007 at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, Ont.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781552211663 :
  
• Contents:1. Introduction / W. Wesley Pue
  2. Introduction to Osgoode Hall on the Occasion of its 175th Anniversary: More than Bricks and Mortar / Deidre Rowe-Brown
  Historical Perspectives on Legal Education
  3. "Slamming the Door on Brains": Narrowing Opportunity at Two Canadian Law Schools, 1880s-1920s / David G. Bell
  4. "Good government, without him, is well-nigh impossible": Training Future (Male) Lawyers for Politics in Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia, 1920-1960 / Melanie Brunet
  Historical Reflections on the Practice of Law
  5. Dealing with Adversity: The Halifax Bar, 1900-1950 / Philip Girard and Jeffrey Haycock
  6. Megafirm History: Past and Present of the Large Law Firm in Canada / Christopher Moore
  Quebec: A Distinct Legal History
  7. Civil Law, Legal Practitioners, and Everyday Justice in the Decades Following the Quebec Act / Jean-Philippe Garneau
  8. Legal Profession and Penal Justice in Quebec City, 1856-1965: From Modernity to Anti-Modernity / Donald Fyson
  Rule of Law, Impeachment, and Bureaucratic Regulation
  9. Court and the Legal Profession: Loyalist Lawyers and the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, 1785-1790 / Jim Phillips
  10. "Guardians of Liberty": R.M.W. Chitty, Lawyers, and the Second World War / Eric M. Adams
  Race Issues: Diversifying the Bar and its Legal Strategies
  11. Reconstructing the Lives and Careers of Lawyers: Ethelbert Lionel Cross, Toronto's First Black Lawyer / Susan Lewthwaite
  12. If Your Life is a Leaf: Arthur Eugene O'Meara's Campaign for Aboriginal Justice / Hamar Foster
  Gender Issues: The Impact of Women on the Profession
  13. "In the rough of things": Women Lawyers in British Columbia, 1912-1930 / Dorothy E. Chunn and Joan Brockman
  14. "A Revolution in Numbers": The Formative Years for Ontario Feminist Lawyers, 1970-1990 / Constance Backhouse.