2007•University of Toronto Law JournalRequires access
Who's Afraid of Canadian Legal History?
Philip Girard
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Abstract
striking in its diversity in substance, theoretical context and methodology, . . . a far cry from the concerns of traditional English history focused primarily, as it was, on the evolution of the common law, the Royal courts, and the cast of characters who administered them and made decisions or practiced in them. . . . [T]he focus of contemporary legal historical scholarship in Canada . . . extend[s] well beyond the courts and their denizens to law and legal culture in all its complexity.3