My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures / / Martin L. Friedland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Friedland, Martin L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (530 p.)

Since his call to the Bar in 1960, Martin L. Friedland has been involved in a number of important public policy issues, including bail, legal aid, gun control, securities regulation, access to the law, judicial independence and accountability, and national security. My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures offers a first-hand account of the development of these areas of law from the perspective of a man who was heavily involved in their formation and implementation. It is also the story of a distinguished academic, author, and former dean of law at the University of Toronto.Moving beyond the boundaries of conventional memoir, Friedland offers an extended meditation on public policy issues and significant events in the field of law, discussing their historical impact and predicting the course of their future development. Given his personal experience, there is no other person more suited to discuss these hugely important issues. Friedland puts the law and legal institutions into a wider context, looking at the role of personalities, politics, and pressure groups in the establishment of laws that continue to have tremendous importance for Canadians.My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures reflects upon a life devoted to education, scholarship, and the law, and is an insider account of public policy issues that have come to shape life in this country in the twentieth century and beyond.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 Legal Education -- 2 Articling and the Bar Ads -- 3 Cambridge and Double Jeopardy -- 4 The Enforcement of Morality -- 5 More Double Jeopardy -- 6 Detention before Trial -- 7 Legal Aid -- 8 Criminal Courts -- 9 Securities Regulation -- 10 Machinery of Law Reform -- 11 The Law Reform Commission of Canada -- 12 Access to the Law -- 13 Deaning and the University -- 14 Gun Control -- 15 National Security -- 16 More National Security - Terrorism -- 17 Codification of the Criminal Law -- 18 The Charter -- 19 The Trials of Israel Lipski -- 20 The Case of Valentine Shortis -- 21 The Death of Old Man Rice -- 22 The Frailty of the Criminal Process - Some Observations -- 23 Sanctions and Rewards in the Legal System -- 24 Borderline Justice and Other Studies of Law and Society -- 25 A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability -- 26 Controlling Misconduct in the Military -- 27 Writing the History of the University of Toronto -- Epilogue -- Notes on Sources -- Publications and Government Work of Martin L. Friedland -- Index -- Backmatter