Professor Lyndsay Campbell presented a paper on "Race, Law and the Early Canadian State" at the Legal Histories of the British Empire Conference at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in July. Over a hundred legal historians from all over the world presented papers on the theme of “Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire: Engagements & Legacies”, exploring various aspects of the common law's role in the colonial and post-colonial world. Lyndsay’s presentation explored jurists' attitudes to building racial categories into law before the late nineteenth century; an abstract is available here.
University of Calgary
Faculty of Law
