Book Prize Winners (W. Wesley Pue Prize)
2023
Winner: Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown, History of Law in Canada, Volume 2: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914 (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
Honourable Mention: Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (Harper Collins, 2022)
2022
Winner: Jocelyn Hendrickson, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021).
Honourable Mention: Nathalie Kermoal and Chris Andersen, eds, Daniels v. Canada: In and Beyond the Courts (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021).
2021
Winner: Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, Céline Bellot Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Honourable Mention: Eric Reiter, Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1920(University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2019).
2020
John Borrows, Law's Indigenous Ethics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Honourable mention: Adelle Blackett, Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law (Cornell University Press, 2019).
2019
Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018).
Honourable mention: Philip Girard, Jim Phillips and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1866 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2018).
2018
Constance Backhouse, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé: A Life (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017).
Honourable mention: Prashan Ranasinghe, Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017).
2017
W. Wesley Pue, Lawyers’ Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
2016
Craig Forcese and Kent Roach, False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2015).
Short listed: Sarah Biddulph, The Stability Imperative: Human Rights and Law in China (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015).
Short listed: David Fraser, "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2015).
2015
Richard Weisman, Showing Remorse: Law and the Social Control of Emotion (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
Honourable mention: Dominique Clément, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84 (Vancouver: UBC Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2014).
2014
Mary Anne Waldron, Free to Believe: Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013).
2013
R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012).
Honourable mention: Shelley Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 (Vancouver: UBC Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012).
Honourable mention: David Milward, Aboriginal Justice and the Charter: Realizing a Culturally Sensitive Interpretation of Legal Rights (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012).
2011
John Borrows, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Honourable mention: Ken Leyton-Brown, The Practice of Execution in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).
Winner: Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown, History of Law in Canada, Volume 2: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914 (University of Toronto Press, 2022)
Honourable Mention: Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (Harper Collins, 2022)
2022
Winner: Jocelyn Hendrickson, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021).
Honourable Mention: Nathalie Kermoal and Chris Andersen, eds, Daniels v. Canada: In and Beyond the Courts (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2021).
2021
Winner: Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, Céline Bellot Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Honourable Mention: Eric Reiter, Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1920(University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2019).
2020
John Borrows, Law's Indigenous Ethics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Honourable mention: Adelle Blackett, Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law (Cornell University Press, 2019).
2019
Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018).
Honourable mention: Philip Girard, Jim Phillips and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1866 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2018).
2018
Constance Backhouse, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé: A Life (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017).
Honourable mention: Prashan Ranasinghe, Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017).
2017
W. Wesley Pue, Lawyers’ Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016).
2016
Craig Forcese and Kent Roach, False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2015).
Short listed: Sarah Biddulph, The Stability Imperative: Human Rights and Law in China (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015).
Short listed: David Fraser, "Honorary Protestants": The Jewish School Question in Montreal, 1867-1997 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2015).
2015
Richard Weisman, Showing Remorse: Law and the Social Control of Emotion (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
Honourable mention: Dominique Clément, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84 (Vancouver: UBC Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2014).
2014
Mary Anne Waldron, Free to Believe: Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013).
2013
R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012).
Honourable mention: Shelley Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 (Vancouver: UBC Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012).
Honourable mention: David Milward, Aboriginal Justice and the Charter: Realizing a Culturally Sensitive Interpretation of Legal Rights (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012).
2011
John Borrows, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Honourable mention: Ken Leyton-Brown, The Practice of Execution in Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010).