R.C.B. Risk is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. George Blaine Baker is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.Jim Phillips is a professor emeritus of law and history at the University of Toronto.

• FOREWARDIntroductionPART ONEThe Classical Age: Canadian Legal Thought in the Late Nineteenth Century Constitutional Scholarship in the Late Nineteenth Century: Making Federalism WorkA.H.F. Lefroy: Common Law Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada – On Burying One’s GrandfatherRights Talk in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century: ‘The Good Sense and Right Feeling of the People’Blake and LibertyJohn Skirving Ewart: The Legal ThoughtSir William R. Meredith, CJO: The Search for AuthorityPART TWOThe Challenge of Modernity: Canadian Legal Thought in the 1930s Volume One of the Journal: A Tribute and a Belated Review The Scholars and the Constitution: POGG and the Privy CouncilJohn Willis: A TributeThe Many Minds of W.P.M. KennedyCanadian Law Teachers in the 1930s: ‘When the World Was Turned Upside Down’PART THREEPostwar Developments On the Road to Oz: Common Law Scholarship about Federalism after World War II