Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
Philip; Osgoode Society Girard
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hardcover. Centred on one pre-Confederation lawyer whose career epitomizes the trends of his day, Beamish Murdoch (1800-1876), Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America makes an important and compelling contribution to Canadian legal history. Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
From award-winning biographer Philip Girard, Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America is the first history of the legal profession in Canada to emphasize its cross-provincial similarities and its deep roots in the colonial period. Girard details how nineteenth-century British North American lawyers created a distinctive Canadian template for the profession by combining the strong collective governance of the English tradition with the high degree of creativity and client responsiveness characteristic of U.S. lawyers — a mix that forms the basis of the legal profession in Canada today.
Girard provides a unique window on the interconnections between lawyers' roles ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442644106
SKU
V9781442644106
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About Philip; Osgoode Society Girard
Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
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