2015 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing Awarded to Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Earlier this week at its annual conference in Moncton, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries announced that the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History book series was the winner of the 2015 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing.
Over the past 35 years, the Society has published books that cover the breadth of Canadian legal history, including the history of crime and punishment, women and the law, the legal treatment of minorities and much more.
The Award is named after the late Hugh Lawford, law professor at Queen’s in Kingston, Ontario and the founder of Quicklaw.
We should also name Dr Peter Oliver who as the founding director of the Osgoode Society transformed legal history in Canada. From a gleam of an idea at an Albany Club lunch in the late Seventies has sprung a wealth of scholarship that has illuminated so many aspects of Canadian law and life.
Jim Phillips is carrying on the work brilliantly, but Peter was the driving force.