Law and History

Several faculty members at U of T Law work on diverse aspects of legal history.

• See the list of faculty members working on Law and History

The Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop is hosted at U of T Law and sponsored by the Osgoode Society. Participants in this informal evening seminar  are graduate students and faculty in law and history from U of T, York, McMaster and other institutions, as well as law students. All law students with an interest in legal history are welcome.

• Prof. Angela Fernandez is an Executive Committee Member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History.
• Wright Lecture: Robert W. Gordon, "Caesar” Wright’s Legacy:  The Necessarily Uneasy Relation Between Legal Education and Legal Practice"
• Wright Lecture: Martti Koskenniemi, "Empire and International Law: The Spanish Contribution"
• Nexus magazine: The Wright stuff - The Faculty of Law’s Dean Cecil ‘Caesar’ Wright had a transformative vision for law school that still reverberates today
• Prof. Martin Friedland: 'The Enigmatic W.P.M. Kennedy': Prof. Martin Friedland writes about the law school's first dean
• Excerpt from Prof. Friedland's Introduction to W.P.M. Kennedy's 1922 classic 'The Constitution of Canada'