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My Life in the Law is a rich, personal reflection on Robert J. Sharpe's long, varied, and influential career as a lawyer, scholar, and judge.
After giving an account of his early life and education, Sharpe examines his time as a law student in the late 1960s, an era when great emphasis was put upon formalistic legal doctrine, heavily influenced by English law. As a legal academic in the 1970s up until the 1990s, Sharpe participated in Canadian law's emergence from the shadow of its narrow past. He then dealt with that evolution from the very different perspective of a judge and a legal history scholar during his twenty-five years on the bench.
Throughout the book, Sharpe writes about the people who influenced his trajectory: the exceptional lawyers with whom he practiced, his Oxford University professors, and his University or Toronto colleagues. He describes how these people and his three-year experience working as executive legal officer to Justice Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada prepared him for his twenty-five-year career as a judge.
Written in an engaging and accessible style, this memoir tells the story of a man whose fascination with the law has led to an illustrious, decades-long career of great significance.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Beginnings
Chapter 2. Early Education
Chapter 3. Law School
Chapter 4. MacKinnon McTaggart
Chapter 5. Oxford
Chapter 6. Law Professor
Chapter 7. My First Adventures in Legal History
Chapter 8. Constitutional Litigation
Chapter 9. Executive Legal Officer at the Supreme Court of Canada
Chapter 10. Law School Dean
Chapter 11. Trial Judge
Chapter 12. Court of Appeal
Chapter 13. More Scholarly Adventures
Chapter 14. International Assignments
Chapter 15. Conclusion
