Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures ix
4. Blaine Baker’s Quebec xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxvii
6. Blaine Baker, His Life and Work
7. Footnotes Margins Minutes 3
8. Blaine Baker, a Tribute 7
9. Blaine Baker, a Butterfly 36
10. It Was a Man’s World: Blaine Baker and the Writing of Canadian Legal History, 1981–2018 50
11. Traces of Blaine Baker upon McGill’s Faculty of Law 84
12. Blaine Baker and the Field of Legal History
13. Model of a Legal Academian 119
14. The Historical Exploits of Stella March: Reflecting on Feminist Legal History 122
15. The Case of the Frederick Gerring Jr: Fish, Colony, and Nation 149
16. New Directions in Judicial Biography: More Humane, More Transnational, More Comparative 193
17. The Colonial Origins of the Division of Powers in the British North America Act 212
18. “A Most Atrocious Crime”: Sex Crimes against the Woman-Child in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal 250
19. The Making of Canada’s First Technology Transfer Office (1916–1939) 298
20. Petty Theft in the City: Women and Everyday Justice in the Montreal Archives, 1768–1841 338
21. The Case of the Theologizing Blacksmith: Liberalism, Conservative Catholicism, and Defamation in 1870s Quebec 382
22. The Limits of Adjudication in the First-Year Curriculum: The Recurring History of Legal Process at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law 415
23. The Camel’s Nose in the Constitutional Tent: Extrapolating from G. Blaine Baker’s Thoughts on Late Nineteenth-Century Legal Liberalism and Elite Lawyer Resistance to the Canadian Welfare State 455
24. University of Toronto Faculty of Law Legal Process (LAW100HIS – Four Credits) First Year – Winter 2019 493
25. Bibliography: Works by G. Blaine Baker, 1979–2019 509
26. Contributors 513
27. Index 517