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Ivan Rand's Ancient Constitutionalism, Jonathon Penney

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Few names loom larger than Ivan Rand’s in the history of Canadian law. If anything, Rand has retained his image as a courageous judge willing to bend the law in creative ways to seek justice and protect the rights of oppressed minorities. But Rand’s legal ideas have not faired as well. Over the years, his theory of “implied rights,” and view of the judicial role, has been criticized as incoherent and indefensible. The central aim of this paper is to challenge these criticisms. I want to offer a solution by reconstructing an overlooked component of his legal thought: a form …

A Prospectus For Canadian Legal History, R. C. B. Risk

Dalhousie Law Journal

The study of legal history can be a useful and scholarly undertaking. An understanding of the uses and limits of law is useful, if not necessary, for any civilized community, and a study of legal history is one way, although not the exclusive way, of achieving this understanding. More generally, our understanding of history cannot be complete without some understanding of its legal elements. Therefore, the study of Canadian legal history should be respectable and flourishing, but it is not. It has been greatly neglected, and most of the little work that has been done has reflected limited interests. Lawyers …

The Canadian Law List (Hardy's) 1900, H. Cartwright

Thompson Rare Book Collection

The Canadian Law List (Hardy's) 1900 edited by H. Cartqright, Esq. includes:

• Canadian law firms and barristers;
• Canadian Commissioners;
• Dominion Laws;
• Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada;
• Judges;
• Synopsis of laws.3

Content is organized by province.