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UBC Press is publishing Michael Boudreau's study of crime and society in inter war Halifax:City of Order: Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35 Here is the description from their website:Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens struggled to adopt new ideas and technologies as... Read more »

Readers of this blog might be interested in knowing that the plenary address at the Canadian Law and Society Association's conference this year (with the Congress at Waterloo) will be delivered by Philip Girard. It is on Sunday May 27 at 5 pm in room 2065 of the Math and Computing bui... Read more »

Adams on Private Bills for Professional Accreditation in Ontario

  "Sneaking in the Back Door? Social Closure and Private Bills for Entry into Ontario Professions, 1868–1914" by sociologist Tracey L. Adams has been around for a while--it appears in Social History/Histoire Sociale in 2006 (no.78). Many Ontario legal historians know the story of Delos R... Read more »

Updated: Pilarczyk on Infanticide in 19th century Montreal

Ian C. Pilarczyk of Boston University has an article in the May 2012 issue of Law & History Review, entitled ‘So Foul A Deed’: Infanticide in Montreal, 1825–1850.UPDATE: Ian advises the paper is available on SSRN and also his website: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2046... Read more »

Is auditing a species of low law?

I think so. In any event, "Law & Legislation" are among the keywords listed for an article entitled "The First External Auditors of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1866" by Gary F. Spraakman of York University, the notice for which flitted across my screen a couple of days ago. It... Read more »