Professor G. Blaine Baker
Faculty of Law, McGill University
List of Publications - 2017

“Musings and Silences of Chief Justice William Osgoode: Digest Marginalia about the Reception of Imperial Law”, (2017), 54 Osgoode Hall L. J. (in press).

Mélanges Gerald Eric LeDain: Tracings of a Life, ed. (15 essays, 382 manuscript pages, in press).

“Testamentary Archeology in Late-Victorian Ontario: William Martin’s Little, Posthumous Legal System” (2015), 30 Can. J. L. & Soc’y 345-364.

“Character-Building at Multiple Sites of Justice: Administration and Teaching as Texts, Scholarship as Ethical and Political Action” in D. Jutras, R. Jukier, and R. Janda, eds., The Unbounded Level of the Mind: Rod Macdonald’s Legal Imagination (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015) 214-222.

“Quebec and the Canadas, 1760-1867: A Legal Historiography” in G.B. Baker and D. Fyson, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Quebec and the Canadas (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013) 3-95.

Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Quebec and the Canadas, with D. Fyson, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013) 12 essays, 608 pages.

“Popularizing the Rule of Law: Sheldon Amos and the International Scientific Series, 1874 to 1909” (2012), 32 J. Legal Hist. 151-184.

“Story’d Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine” in A. Fernandez and M. D. Dubber, eds., Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo- American Legal Treatise(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2011)82-107.

“Strategic Benthamism: Rehabilitating United Canada’s Bar Through Criminal Law Codification, 1847-54” in J. Phillips, R.R. McMurtry, and J.T. Saywell, eds., Essays in the History of Canadian Law: A Tribute to Peter N. Oliver (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008) 257-319.

“Introduction: Canadian Legal Thought” in G.B. Baker and J. Phillips, eds., A History of CanadianLegal Thought: Collected Essays (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 3-29.

A History of Canadian Legal Thought: Collected Essays, with J. Phillips, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 12 essays, 434pages.

“Willison Cultured Public Authorities” (2005), 55 U. Toronto L.J. 335-360.

Accountants’ Liability in Canada, with R. Forster, ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2002) 388 pages.

“R.C.B. Risk’s Canadian Legal History” in G.B. Baker and J. Phillips, eds., Essays in the History ofCanadian Law: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) 17-60.

Essays in the History of Canadian Law: In Honour of R.C.B. Risk, with J. Phillips, eds. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999)16 essays, 585 pages.

“Ordering the Urban Canadian Law Office and its Entrepreneurial Hinterland, 1825 to 1875” (1998), 48 U. Toronto L.J. 175-251.

A Noble Roster: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Law at McGill, with J.E.C.Brierley, N. Kasirer, and S.J. Toope, eds., (Montreal: Gelfand-Martineau, 1998) 156 pages.

“Public Frivolity and Patrician Confidence: Lower Canada’s ‘Brothers-in-Law’, 1827 to 1833” in J.E.C. Brierley, et al., eds., Mélanges Paul-AndréCrépeau (Cowansville, PQ: Blais, 1996) 43-73.

“William Proudfoot” and “William Albert Reeve” in R. Cook, F.G. Halpenny, and J. Hamelin, eds., Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vols. 12 and 13 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990-1994) 848-850, 887-888.

“The Province of Post-Confederation Rights” (1994), 45 U. Toronto L.J. 77-100.

“Civil Law – The French Colonies” and “Legal Professions – The French Colonies” in J.E. Cooke, ed., Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, vol. 1 (New York: Charles Scribner, 1993) 430-432, 443-445.

“Interstate Choice of Law and Early-American Constitutional Nationalism” (1992), 38 McGill L.J. 454-511.

“Law Practice and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Montreal: The Torrance-Morris Firm, 1848 to 1868” in C. Wilton, ed., Beyond the Law: Lawyers and Business in Canada 1830 to 1930 (Toronto: Butterworth, 1990) 45-91.

“Review Essay [on P. Baskerville, The Bank of Upper Canada: A Collection of Documents(Ottawa:Champlain Society, 1987)]” (1989), 81 Ont. Hist. 69-75.

“So Elegant a Web: Providential Order and the Rule of Secular Law in Early-Nineteenth-Century Upper Canada” (1988), 38 U. Toronto L.J. 184-205.

Sources in the Law Library of McGill University for a Reconstruction of the Legal Culture of Quebec, 1760-1890 – with K.E. Fisher,V. Masciotra, and B. Young (Montreal: McGill University and Montreal History Project, 1987) 276 pages.

“The Juvenile Advocate Society, 1821 to 1826: Self-Proclaimed Schoolroom for Upper Canada’s Governing Class” [1985] Hist. Papers – Can. Hist. Ass.74-101 (1986).

“The Reconstitution of Upper Canadian Legal Thought in the Late-Victorian Empire” (1985), 3 Law & Hist. Rev. 219-292.

“Bibliographic Reconstruction of Canadian Legal Culture” (1985), 25 Bull. Bibliographical Soc.Can. 11-20.

“William Warren Baldwin”, “Jonathan Belcher”, “William Hume Blake”, “William Henry Draper”, “Joseph-Francois Lafitau”, “Augustus Henry Frazer Lefroy”, “Hellen Emma MacGill”, “David Mills”, “Sir William Mulock”, “Emily Cowan Murphy”, “William Smith”, “Louis-Guillaume Verrier”, “Richard Chapman Weldon”, and “Solomon White” in A.W.B. Simpson, ed., Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law (London: Butterworth, 1984) 30-31, 40-41, 61-62, 156, 300, 310, 334, 377-378, 479, 480, 519-520, 527, 530.

“Legal Education in Upper Canada, 1785 to 1889: The Law Society as Educator” in D.H. Flaherty, ed., Essays in the History of Canadian Law (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983) 49-142.

“Legal Identity: From Maine and Durkheim to Graveson, Tribe, and Vining” (1981), 19 W. Ont. L. Rev. 307-341.

Reports of Family Law Reprint Series (1824-1970), with J.G. McLeod and G.P. Rodrigues, eds.(Toronto: Carswell, 1979-81) about 350 case annotations and headnotes, 2019 pages.

Contracts in the Family, with J.G. McLeod (Toronto: Butterworth, 1979) 72 pages.