This course examines Canadian legal history through differing Indigenous, civil, and common law legal traditions, using multiple categories of analysis, including race, gender, class, spirituality and sexuality. Legal history is a strong and engaging field of study in Canada. Topics will include constitutional histories, treaties, law-making, differing systems of land tenure, the franchise and the structure of deliberative bodies (e.g. legislatures), courts and systems of justice, policing and criminal law, punishment (including histories of incarceration and alternatives).
4.0 credits including HIS263Y1/ HIS264H1. Students who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to contact the Department.
HIS389H1 (offered as "Ontario's Treaties: The First Law of the Land"), taken in Winter 2020, (offered as "Topics in Canadian Legal History"), taken in Winter 2021, (offered as "Canadian Legal Histories"), taken in Winter 2023.
