Bradley Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3778331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradley Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradley |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Notorious Georges
A milestone in Canadian legal history
This review essay critically examines the first volume, covering the period from pre-contact until 1866, of a three-volume history of law in Canada. The essay assesses, in particular, how the book deals with Indigenous law and Indigenous-settler legal relations as well as the histories of private law and criminal justice in the French and British colonies that now constitute Canada. The book is an extraordinary achievement. It surveys a vast numb…
Roads to Confederation
"Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867." Canadian Historical Review, 100(4), pp. 681–682
Confederation in Court
This article argues that Canadian historians should teach more of the law, and not just the politics, of Confederation and the British North America Act, 1867 (bna Act). It proposes three themes grounded in legal history that can offer students new perspectives on what they often see as the over-familiar and underwhelming events and aftermaths of 1867. It suggests, first, that instructors should wade into the court battles and the constitutional …
Borderline Crime
Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.
Too Many Courts and Too Much Law”
The 1830s was Nova Scotia's “Age of Reform.” Although historians have documented the growing tensions between elected Assembly and appointed lieutenant governor and Council, the concomitant attacks on the established economic elite, and the rise of a distinct party in colonial politics, little attention has been paid to the role played by the colony's courts and judges in this crucial decade. This lacuna is surprising, because reformers were conv…
Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America
Reviewed by: Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax Bradley Miller Girard, Philip – Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax. Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. 279. This book is an important and impressive addition to the burgeoning field of Canadian legal history, written by one of its most distinguished practitioners. The book exa…
‘A carnival of crime on our border’
This paper traces the development of Canadian extradition law from the formation of a pro-extradition consensus in the 1860s to the passage of a new Canadian statute in 1877, to that act's final ratification by Britain in 1883. This process of law reform illustrates Britain's continuing legal power in Canada. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s imperial authorities suppressed, delayed, and rewrote dominion extradition law, bringing it back into line w…
A summary of recent constitutional reform in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Legislative competence for the UK resides in the Westminster Parliament, but there are three legal systems (England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland) with separate courts and legal professions. These legal systems have a unified final court of appeal in the House of Lords. The Isle of Man, and the two Channe…
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A summary of recent constitutional reform in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Legislative competence for the UK resides in the Westminster Parliament, but there are three legal systems (England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland) with separate courts and legal professions. These legal systems have a unified final court of appeal in the House of Lords. The Isle of Man, and the two Channe…
‘A carnival of crime on our border’
This paper traces the development of Canadian extradition law from the formation of a pro-extradition consensus in the 1860s to the passage of a new Canadian statute in 1877, to that act's final ratification by Britain in 1883. This process of law reform illustrates Britain's continuing legal power in Canada. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s imperial authorities suppressed, delayed, and rewrote dominion extradition law, bringing it back into line w…
Too Many Courts and Too Much Law”
The 1830s was Nova Scotia's “Age of Reform.” Although historians have documented the growing tensions between elected Assembly and appointed lieutenant governor and Council, the concomitant attacks on the established economic elite, and the rise of a distinct party in colonial politics, little attention has been paid to the role played by the colony's courts and judges in this crucial decade. This lacuna is surprising, because reformers were conv…
Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America
Reviewed by: Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax Bradley Miller Girard, Philip – Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax. Toronto: The Osgoode Society and University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. 279. This book is an important and impressive addition to the burgeoning field of Canadian legal history, written by one of its most distinguished practitioners. The book exa…
Borderline Crime
Borderline Crime examines how law reacted to the challenge of the border in British North America and post-Confederation Canada.Miller also reveals how the law remained confused, amorphous, and often ineffectual at confronting the threat of the border to the rule of law.
Confederation in Court
This article argues that Canadian historians should teach more of the law, and not just the politics, of Confederation and the British North America Act, 1867 (bna Act). It proposes three themes grounded in legal history that can offer students new perspectives on what they often see as the over-familiar and underwhelming events and aftermaths of 1867. It suggests, first, that instructors should wade into the court battles and the constitutional …
Roads to Confederation
"Roads to Confederation: The Making of Canada, 1867." Canadian Historical Review, 100(4), pp. 681–682
A milestone in Canadian legal history
This review essay critically examines the first volume, covering the period from pre-contact until 1866, of a three-volume history of law in Canada. The essay assesses, in particular, how the book deals with Indigenous law and Indigenous-settler legal relations as well as the histories of private law and criminal justice in the French and British colonies that now constitute Canada. The book is an extraordinary achievement. It surveys a vast numb…
The Notorious Georges
Political science (7 works) · Canadian Identity and History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Appeal (2 works) · Economic Justice (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works)