Philip Girard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841661 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Girard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Girard |
| SIGNATURE | GIRARD P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9720-9545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada’s Constitutional Act of 1791
The Constitutional Act 1791, which provided representative governments to Upper and Lower Canada, has often been regarded as a reactionary document. Here, a comparison with the constitutions of the eastern colonies of British North America as well as the pre-revolutionary constitutions of the Thirteen Colonies reveals a variety of ways in which the 1791 Act was more liberal and more committed to the popular element of the constitution than its co…
Truth Be Told
"Truth Be Told: My Journey through Life and the Law. Beverley McLachlin." Canadian Historical Review, 101(2), pp. 306–307
Angela Fernandez, Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America
“If two ride a horse, one must ride in front”
Canada's Naturalization Act 1881 followed Britain's lead in requiring a woman's nationality to conform to that of her husband. Analysis of the interwar campaign to change the law sheds light on the link between the status of women and dominion autonomy; the continuing reluctance to admit immigrant women to the full privileges of citizenship; the role of national women's organizations in maintaining Canada's future as a white settler nation; and t…
Dewigged, Bothered, & Bewildered
Rethinking ‘the Nation’ in National Legal History
In 1929, when Lorna Parsons tired of her four-year marriage to a London, Ontario tailor, she decided to seek a divorce—in Reno, Nevada. Even though Lorna's divorce was not generally recognized in Canada, obtaining it was important to her and to the hundreds, if not thousands, of Canadians who similarly sought United States divorces at a time when Canadian law was extremely restrictive. The choices of Parsons and her compatriots should be of inter…
Exclusionary Empire
Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire – Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and on one non-settler colony, India. The book exa…
Who's Afraid of Canadian Legal History
The ‘new legal history’ has flourished in Canada over the last three decades, ever since Andre Morel and John Brierley began their pioneering work in the history of Quebec law in the 1960s and R.C.B. Risk published his ‘Prospectus for the Study of Canadian Legal History’ in 1973. A recent survey of the field describes this body of scholarship as striking in its diversity in substance, theoretical context and methodology, ...a far cry from the con…
Renegade Lawyer
Bora Laskin
Introduction Part I: Starting Out 1 The Lakehead 2 Law School 3 Articling 4 Harvard 5 Waiting Part II: The Academy 6 Professor 7 Osgoode 8 Revolution 9 Federalism Part III: Extra-curricular 10 Arbitrator 11 Human Rights 12 Academic Freedom Part IV: Transitions 13 Elder Statesman 14 The Accidental Judge 15 Ontario Court of Appeal Part V: The Supreme Court of Canada 16 On to Ottawa 17 Early Promise 18 Chief Justice 19 The Laskin Court 20 The Great …
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004
Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.
Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871
Why Canada Has No Family Policy
This paper uses a comparative legal history approach to examine the "private" law of the family in France, Italy, and the major English-speaking countries in order to clarify the fundamental notions of the family which predated the welfare state. It is suggested that a major cleavage exists, historically, between an autonomous family law in France and Italy oriented around notions of familial solidarity, sibling interdependence and equality, and …
Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture
Beamish Murdoch (1800–76) was a young man when the first of the four volumes of his Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia rolled off Joseph Howe's press at Halifax in the spring of 1832. He was an old man when the first installment of his three-volume History of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie appeared under James Barnes's imprint in the spring of 1865. These two works have received surprisingly disparate attention in the century since Murdoch's death. Today…
Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Vol. 3, Nova Scotia
Journal Article Essays in the History of Canadian Law Get access Girard Philip Phillips Jim. Essays in the History of Canadian Law. vol. 3, Nova Scotia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, xii, 369 pp. $50.00. Gordon Morris Bakken Gordon Morris Bakken California State University, Fullerton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 324–32…
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
From Subversion to Liberation
Historians of the Cold War have tended to focus on the repression of political dissidents during that period, but only recently has attention been shifted to the simultaneous suppression of other types of non-conformity, such as sexual variance and non-traditional gender roles. Parallel to the repression of internal political dissent which accompanied the international Cold War, another, more subtle, campaign was proceeding. This was the attempt …
Bora Laskin
Introduction Part I: Starting Out 1 The Lakehead 2 Law School 3 Articling 4 Harvard 5 Waiting Part II: The Academy 6 Professor 7 Osgoode 8 Revolution 9 Federalism Part III: Extra-curricular 10 Arbitrator 11 Human Rights 12 Academic Freedom Part IV: Transitions 13 Elder Statesman 14 The Accidental Judge 15 Ontario Court of Appeal Part V: The Supreme Court of Canada 16 On to Ottawa 17 Early Promise 18 Chief Justice 19 The Laskin Court 20 The Great …
Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture
Beamish Murdoch (1800–76) was a young man when the first of the four volumes of his Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia rolled off Joseph Howe's press at Halifax in the spring of 1832. He was an old man when the first installment of his three-volume History of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie appeared under James Barnes's imprint in the spring of 1865. These two works have received surprisingly disparate attention in the century since Murdoch's death. Today…
From Subversion to Liberation
Historians of the Cold War have tended to focus on the repression of political dissidents during that period, but only recently has attention been shifted to the simultaneous suppression of other types of non-conformity, such as sexual variance and non-traditional gender roles. Parallel to the repression of internal political dissent which accompanied the international Cold War, another, more subtle, campaign was proceeding. This was the attempt …
From Subversion to Liberation
Historians of the Cold War have tended to focus on the repression of political dissidents during that period, but only recently has attention been shifted to the simultaneous suppression of other types of non-conformity, such as sexual variance and non-traditional gender roles. Parallel to the repression of internal political dissent which accompanied the international Cold War, another, more subtle, campaign was proceeding. This was the attempt …
Essays in the History of Canadian Law
Essays in the History of Canadian Law. Vol. 3, Nova Scotia
Journal Article Essays in the History of Canadian Law Get access Girard Philip Phillips Jim. Essays in the History of Canadian Law. vol. 3, Nova Scotia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990, xii, 369 pp. $50.00. Gordon Morris Bakken Gordon Morris Bakken California State University, Fullerton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 3, July 1991, Pages 324–32…
Themes and Variations in Early Canadian Legal Culture
Beamish Murdoch (1800–76) was a young man when the first of the four volumes of his Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia rolled off Joseph Howe's press at Halifax in the spring of 1832. He was an old man when the first installment of his three-volume History of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie appeared under James Barnes's imprint in the spring of 1865. These two works have received surprisingly disparate attention in the century since Murdoch's death. Today…
Why Canada Has No Family Policy
This paper uses a comparative legal history approach to examine the "private" law of the family in France, Italy, and the major English-speaking countries in order to clarify the fundamental notions of the family which predated the welfare state. It is suggested that a major cleavage exists, historically, between an autonomous family law in France and Italy oriented around notions of familial solidarity, sibling interdependence and equality, and …
Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004
Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history.
Renegade Lawyer
Bora Laskin
Introduction Part I: Starting Out 1 The Lakehead 2 Law School 3 Articling 4 Harvard 5 Waiting Part II: The Academy 6 Professor 7 Osgoode 8 Revolution 9 Federalism Part III: Extra-curricular 10 Arbitrator 11 Human Rights 12 Academic Freedom Part IV: Transitions 13 Elder Statesman 14 The Accidental Judge 15 Ontario Court of Appeal Part V: The Supreme Court of Canada 16 On to Ottawa 17 Early Promise 18 Chief Justice 19 The Laskin Court 20 The Great …
Who's Afraid of Canadian Legal History
The ‘new legal history’ has flourished in Canada over the last three decades, ever since Andre Morel and John Brierley began their pioneering work in the history of Quebec law in the 1960s and R.C.B. Risk published his ‘Prospectus for the Study of Canadian Legal History’ in 1973. A recent survey of the field describes this body of scholarship as striking in its diversity in substance, theoretical context and methodology, ...a far cry from the con…
Exclusionary Empire
Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire – Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa – and on one non-settler colony, India. The book exa…
Rethinking ‘the Nation’ in National Legal History
In 1929, when Lorna Parsons tired of her four-year marriage to a London, Ontario tailor, she decided to seek a divorce—in Reno, Nevada. Even though Lorna's divorce was not generally recognized in Canada, obtaining it was important to her and to the hundreds, if not thousands, of Canadians who similarly sought United States divorces at a time when Canadian law was extremely restrictive. The choices of Parsons and her compatriots should be of inter…
Dewigged, Bothered, & Bewildered
“If two ride a horse, one must ride in front”
Canada's Naturalization Act 1881 followed Britain's lead in requiring a woman's nationality to conform to that of her husband. Analysis of the interwar campaign to change the law sheds light on the link between the status of women and dominion autonomy; the continuing reluctance to admit immigrant women to the full privileges of citizenship; the role of national women's organizations in maintaining Canada's future as a white settler nation; and t…
Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America
Truth Be Told
"Truth Be Told: My Journey through Life and the Law. Beverley McLachlin." Canadian Historical Review, 101(2), pp. 306–307
Angela Fernandez, Pierson v. Post, The Hunt for the Fox
Rearguard or Vanguard? A New Look at Canada’s Constitutional Act of 1791
The Constitutional Act 1791, which provided representative governments to Upper and Lower Canada, has often been regarded as a reactionary document. Here, a comparison with the constitutions of the eastern colonies of British North America as well as the pre-revolutionary constitutions of the Thirteen Colonies reveals a variety of ways in which the 1791 Act was more liberal and more committed to the popular element of the constitution than its co…
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