Law, life, and the teaching of legal history : essays in honour of G. Blaine Baker / edited by Ian C. Pilarczyk, Angela Fernandez, and Brian Young.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for thirty-five years, Blaine Baker (1952-2018) was known for his unique personality, teaching style, intellectual cosmopolitanism, and deep commitment to the place of Canadian legal history in the curriculum of law faculties. Written by fifteen historians, Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History examines important themes in Canadian legal history through the prism of Baker's career. A first group of essays discusses Baker's own research, his influence within McGill's law faculty, his complex personality, and the relationship between the private and the public in the life of a university intellectual at the turn of the twenty-first century. Additional essays, inspired by topics Baker took up in his own writing, use Baker's broad interests in legal culture to reflect on fundamental themes across Canadian legal history, including legal education, gender and race, technology, nation building and national identity, criminal law and marginalized populations, and constitutionalism. Law, Life, and the Teaching of Legal History offers contemporary analysis of Canadian legal history and thoughtfully engages with what it means to honour one individual's enduring legacy in the study of law."-- Provided by publisher.

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Front Matter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Blaine Baker's Quebec -- Acknowledgments -- Blaine Baker, His Life and Work -- Footnotes Margins Minutes -- Blaine Baker, a Tribute -- Blaine Baker, a Butterfly -- It Was a Man's World: Blaine Baker and the Writing of Canadian Legal History, 1981-2018 -- Traces of Blaine Baker upon McGill's Faculty of Law -- Blaine Baker and the Field of Legal History -- Model of a Legal Academian -- The Historical Exploits of Stella March: Reflecting on Feminist Legal History -- The Case of the Frederick Gerring Jr: Fish, Colony, and Nation -- New Directions in Judicial Biography: More Humane, More Transnational, More Comparative -- The Colonial Origins of the Division of Powers in the British North America Act -- "A Most Atrocious Crime": Sex Crimes against the Woman-Child in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal -- The Making of Canada's First Technology Transfer Office (1916-1939) -- Petty Theft in the City: Women and Everyday Justice in the Montreal Archives, 1768-1841 -- The Case of the Theologizing Blacksmith: Liberalism, Conservative Catholicism, and Defamation in 1870s Quebec -- The Limits of Adjudication in the First-Year Curriculum: The Recurring History of Legal Process at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law -- The Camel's Nose in the Constitutional Tent: Extrapolating from G. Blaine Baker's Thoughts on Late Nineteenth-Century Legal Liberalism and Elite Lawyer Resistance to the Canadian Welfare State -- University of Toronto Faculty of Law Legal Process (LAW100HIS -- Four Credits) First Year -- Winter 2019 -- Bibliography: Works by G. Blaine Baker, 1979-2019 -- Contributors -- Index

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