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Celebrating Four Unruly Women, Elaine Craig

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

In 1846, prison administrators at the Kingston Penitentiary replaced the daily whipping and flogging of prisoners with a new form punishment - The Box. The Box, as Ted McCoy describes it in his new book, Four Unruly Women: S fries f Incarceration and Resistance from Canada's Most Notorious Prison, was a six foot tall, three foot deep coffin used to impose a form of extreme isolation on unruly prisoners. The Box became the primary form of severe punishment for women prisons at Kingston when flogging was abolished.

Four Unruly Women depicts a shocking portrait of the cruelty and inhumanity imposed …

'A Literary Man & A Merchant': The Legal Career Of Sir William Young, William H. Laurence

PhD Dissertations

Sir William Young (1799-1887) of Halifax was a leading lawyer, served as Attorney General, promoted legal reforms in the Assembly, sat as Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, and promoted the establishment of Dalhousie University's Faculty of Law. He thereby fulfilled a variety of roles in his pursuit of two professional goals he had set at an early age, namely material success and intellectual interest. Nonetheless, his career in the law has been mostly ignored. By examining Young's legal career in detail, especially by paying attention to the duties he performed in his professional roles, this thesis seeks …

Brent Cotter Resigns From Dal Law Faculty, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Brent and Sandra Cotter have decided to make permanent, or at least long-term, their move back to their native Saskatchewan. After two years on leave from Dal Law School, the former Associate Dean, Dal Legal Aid Director and long-time Chair of the Admissions Committee has resigned, to continue to serve as Deputy Attorney General of Saskatchewan, a post he has held for the last two years.

John Willis - A Tribute, R. C. B. Risk

Dalhousie Law Journal

John Willis has been respected and loved in the Canadian legal community as a teacher, colleague, and scholar for decades, and one of his articles - Statute Interpretation in a Nutshell' - is probably the best-known single piece of Canadian legal writing. The law about government was his abiding interest and the subject of most of his writing. This article is a study of this writing, especially the writing done during the 1930s. It is primarily part of an undertaking to understand the minds of Canadian lawyers, but it is also a tribute. My conclusion is that this writing was …

Duff: A Life In The Law, Della M. M. Stanley

Dalhousie Law Journal

According to Donald G. Creighton wrote, "History is not made by inanimate forces and human automatons: it is made by living men and women ... which can best be understood by that insight into character . . . which is one of the great attributes of literary art."' The form of that literary art is the biography, a synthesis of an individual's life, activities, ideas, attitudes and character, placed within an historical context. The biographer must look beyond the public perception into the private life of his subject in hopes of better understanding and explaining his character and actions. That …

Dedication To Professor R.A. Samek, W. H. Charles

Dalhousie Law Journal

This issue of the Journal is dedicated to the memory of Bob Samek. Bob was the epitomy of the dedicated scholar searching for basic truths and fundamental concepts. A lonely task in many ways but one that also encouraged intellectual interaction with colleagues.