Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America

Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

von Philip Girard

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 as community leaders and as legal professionals. 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.

• Themen: Recht Rechtswissenschaft, allgemein Rechtsgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781442644106
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2011
• Größe: 229 x 150 mm
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press