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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.
List of contents
Foreword
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
28. Epilogue
Notes on Sources
Publications and Government Work of Martin L. Friedland
Index
About the author
Martin L. Friedland is University Professor and Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1990, and was awarded the Molson Prize in 1995.
Summary
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.
