A history of Canadian legal thought : collected essays / R.C.B. Risk ; edited and introduced by G. Blaine Baker and Jim Phillips.

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Written over more than two decades, and covering the immediate post-Confederation period to the 1960s, these essays reveal a distinctive Canadian tradition of thinking about the nature and functions of law, one which Risk clearly takes pride in and urges us to celebrate.

part 1. The classical age : Canadian legal thought in the late nineteenth century -- 1. Constitutional scholarship in the late nineteenth century : making federalism work -- 2. A.H.F. Lefroy : common law thought in late-nineteenth-century Canada -- on burying one's grandfather -- 3. Rights talk in Canada in the late nineteenth century : 'the good sense and right feeling of the people' -- 4. Blake and liberty -- 5. John Skirving Ewart : the legal thought -- 6. Sir William R. Meredith, CJO : the search for authority -- part 2. The challenge of modernity : Canadian legal thought in the 1930s -- 7. Volume one of the journal : a tribute and a belated review -- 8. The scholars and the constitution : POGG and the Privy Council.