People and Place demonstrates the fascinating ways in which personality and locale interact to shape the law, and how location influences legal cultural history. The essays, by a diverse array of scho
This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan response to the varied legal questions of the past cent
Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940 examines the legal history of the north-west frontier, from the earliest years of European-Native contact in the seventeenth century to the m
Nine essays, presented by Swainger (history, U. of Northern British Columbia, Canada) and Backhouse (law, U. of Ottawa, Canada), examine issues of (mostly Canadian) law, by focusing on particular hist
