Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America: Beamish Murdoch of Halifax

by Philip Girard

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442644109
• ISBN13: 9781442644106
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher