| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 646 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History |
|
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
|
| Contents |
""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Starting Out""; ""1 The Lakehead""; ""2 Law School""; ""3 Articling""; ""4 Harvard""; ""5 Waiting""; ""Part II: The Academy""; ""6 Professor""; ""7 Osgoode""; ""8 Revolution""; ""9 Federalism""; ""Part III: Extra-curricular""; ""10 Arbitrator""; ""11 Human Rights""; ""12 Academic Freedom""; ""Part IV: Transitions""; ""13 Elder Statesman""; ""14 The Accidental Judge""; ""15 Ontario Court of Appeal""; ""Part V: The Supreme Court of Canada""; ""16 On to Ottawa""; ""17 Early Promise""; ""18 Chief Justice"" |
|
""19 The Laskin Court""""20 The Great Dissenter""; ""21 Architect of Public Law""; ""22 Patriation""; ""23 The Berger Affair""; ""24 Final Years""; ""25 Epilogue""; ""NOTES""; ""ILLUSTRATION CREDITS""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z"" |
| Summary |
In <i>Bora Laskin</i>, Girard chronicles the life of a man who, at all points of his life, was a fighter for a better Canada: he fought antisemitism, corporate capital, omnipotent university boards, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and his own judicial colleagues in an effort to modernize institutions and re-shape Canadian law |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Laskin, Bora
|
| SUBJECT |
Laskin, Bora fast |
| Subject |
Canada. Supreme Court -- Biography
|
| SUBJECT |
Canada. Supreme Court fast |
| Subject |
Judges -- Canada -- Biography
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Lawyers & Judges.
|
|
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
|
|
LAW -- Legal Services.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
|
|
LAW -- Legal History.
|
|
Judges
|
|
Canada
|
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
Biographies
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
|
| ISBN |
9781442671522 |
|
1442671521 |
|
1281991805 |
|
9781281991805 |
|
1442626186 |
|
9781442626188 |
|
9786611991807 |
|
6611991808 |
|
