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Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal HistoryEssays in Honour of G. Blaine Baker |
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Exploring Canadian legal history through the life and career of historian Blaine Baker.
As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for over three decades, Blaine Baker (1952-2018) was known for his unique personality, teaching style, intellectual cosmopolitanism, and deep commitment to the place of Canadian legal history in the curriculum of law faculties.
Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History examines important themes in Canadian legal history through the prism of Baker’s career. Essays discuss Baker’s own research, his influence within McGill’s law faculty, his complex personality, and the relationship between the private and the public in the life of a university intellectual at the turn of the twenty-first century. Inspired by topics Baker took up in his own writing, contributors use Baker’s broad interests in legal culture to reflect on fundamental themes across Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building and national identity, criminal law and marginalized populations, and constitutionalism.
Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History offers a contemporary analysis of Canadian legal history and thoughtfully engages with what it means to honour one individual’s enduring legacy in the study of law.
Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History examines important themes in Canadian legal history through the prism of Baker’s career. Essays discuss Baker’s own research, his influence within McGill’s law faculty, his complex personality, and the relationship between the private and the public in the life of a university intellectual at the turn of the twenty-first century. Inspired by topics Baker took up in his own writing, contributors use Baker’s broad interests in legal culture to reflect on fundamental themes across Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building and national identity, criminal law and marginalized populations, and constitutionalism.
Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History offers a contemporary analysis of Canadian legal history and thoughtfully engages with what it means to honour one individual’s enduring legacy in the study of law.
Details
560 Pages, 6 x 9
17 figures, 15 tables
ISBN 9780228012078
July 2022
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“An essential purchase for all academic libraries supporting law or history programs. I also highly recommend it to anyone with an interest in legal history, legal education, or biographies. A warning to the reader, however: between Professor Baker’s publications and those of the contributors, reading this book will certainly result in the lengthening of your reading list.” Canadian Law Library Review
Ian C. Pilarczyk is lecturer at Tufts University.
Angela Fernandez is professor of law cross-appointed to the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Brian Young is James McGill Professor (emeritus) of Canadian history at McGill University.
Angela Fernandez is professor of law cross-appointed to the Department of History at the University of Toronto.
Brian Young is James McGill Professor (emeritus) of Canadian history at McGill University.
Tables and Figures | ix
Foreword: Blaine Baker’s Quebec | xiii
Nicholas Kasirer
Acknowledgments | xxvii
PART ONE| BLAINE BAKER, HIS LIFE AND WORK
footnotes margins minutes | 3
Kathy Fisher
1 Blaine Baker, a Tribute | 7
Ian C. Pilarczyk
2 Blaine Baker, a Butterfly | 36
Angela Fernandez
3 It Was a Man’s World: Blaine Baker and the Writing of Canadian Legal History, 1981-2018 | 50
Brian Young
4 Traces of Blaine Baker upon McGill’s Faculty of Law
Richard Janda | 84
PART TWO | BLAINE BAKER AND THE FIELD OF LEGAL HISTORY
Model of a Legal Academian | 119
G. Blaine Baker
5 The Historical Exploits of Stella March: Reflecting on Feminist Legal History | 122
Constance Backhouse
6 The Case of the Frederick Gerring Jr: Fish, Colony, and Nation | 149
Angela Fernandez
7 New Directions in Judicial Biography: More Humane, More Transnational, More Comparative | 193
Philip Girard
8 The Colonial Origins of the Division of Powers in the British North America Act | 212
Jim Phillips and Tom Collins
9 “A Most Atrocious Crime”: Sex Crimes against the Woman-Child in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal | 250
Ian C. Pilarczyk
10 The Making of Canada’s First Technology Transfer Office (1916-1939) | 298
S. Tina Piper
11 Petty Theft in the City: Women and Everyday Justice in the Montreal Archives, 1768-1841 | 338
Mary Anne Poutanen
12 The Case of the Theologizing Blacksmith: Liberalism, Conservative Catholicism, and Defamation in 1870s Quebec | 382
Eric H. Reiter
13 The Limits of Adjudication in the First-Year Curriculum: The Recurring History of Legal Process at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law | 415
David Sandomierski
14 The Camel’s Nose in the Constitutional Tent: Extrapolating from G. Blaine Baker’s Thoughts on Late Nineteenth-Century Legal Liberalism and Elite Lawyer Resistance to the Canadian Welfare State | 455
Cory Verbauwhede
Appendix: University of Toronto Faculty of Law Legal Process
(law100his - Four Credits) First Year - Winter 2019 | 493
Bibliography: Works by G. Blaine Baker, 1979-2019 | 509
Contributors | 513
Index | 517
Foreword: Blaine Baker’s Quebec | xiii
Nicholas Kasirer
Acknowledgments | xxvii
PART ONE| BLAINE BAKER, HIS LIFE AND WORK
footnotes margins minutes | 3
Kathy Fisher
1 Blaine Baker, a Tribute | 7
Ian C. Pilarczyk
2 Blaine Baker, a Butterfly | 36
Angela Fernandez
3 It Was a Man’s World: Blaine Baker and the Writing of Canadian Legal History, 1981-2018 | 50
Brian Young
4 Traces of Blaine Baker upon McGill’s Faculty of Law
Richard Janda | 84
PART TWO | BLAINE BAKER AND THE FIELD OF LEGAL HISTORY
Model of a Legal Academian | 119
G. Blaine Baker
5 The Historical Exploits of Stella March: Reflecting on Feminist Legal History | 122
Constance Backhouse
6 The Case of the Frederick Gerring Jr: Fish, Colony, and Nation | 149
Angela Fernandez
7 New Directions in Judicial Biography: More Humane, More Transnational, More Comparative | 193
Philip Girard
8 The Colonial Origins of the Division of Powers in the British North America Act | 212
Jim Phillips and Tom Collins
9 “A Most Atrocious Crime”: Sex Crimes against the Woman-Child in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal | 250
Ian C. Pilarczyk
10 The Making of Canada’s First Technology Transfer Office (1916-1939) | 298
S. Tina Piper
11 Petty Theft in the City: Women and Everyday Justice in the Montreal Archives, 1768-1841 | 338
Mary Anne Poutanen
12 The Case of the Theologizing Blacksmith: Liberalism, Conservative Catholicism, and Defamation in 1870s Quebec | 382
Eric H. Reiter
13 The Limits of Adjudication in the First-Year Curriculum: The Recurring History of Legal Process at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law | 415
David Sandomierski
14 The Camel’s Nose in the Constitutional Tent: Extrapolating from G. Blaine Baker’s Thoughts on Late Nineteenth-Century Legal Liberalism and Elite Lawyer Resistance to the Canadian Welfare State | 455
Cory Verbauwhede
Appendix: University of Toronto Faculty of Law Legal Process
(law100his - Four Credits) First Year - Winter 2019 | 493
Bibliography: Works by G. Blaine Baker, 1979-2019 | 509
Contributors | 513
Index | 517
