Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America Beamish Murdoch of Halifax
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Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
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.
I Introduction
II Antecedents
III Apprenticeship
IV The Legal Profession in Nova Scotia: Organization and Mobility
V The Making of a Colonial Lawyer, 1822-1827
VI The Maturing of a Colonial Lawyer, 1828-1850
VII The Politics of a Colonial Lawyer: Murdoch, Howe, and Responsible Government
VIII Law and Politics in the Colonial City: Murdoch as Recorder of Halifax, 1850-1860
IX Law, Identity and Improvement: Murdoch as Cultural Producer
X Epilogue
XI Conclusion
Appendix A
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Biographical note
Philip Girard is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.