Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Hamar Foster, QC who was awarded the 2019 Clio Prize Lifetime Achievement Award by the Canadian Historical Association. This is awarded for exceptional contributions to regional history across one’s career.
Hamar joined the Faculty of Law in 1978, and was promoted to professor in 1993. He taught Legal Process, Property, Criminal Law, The Law of Evidence, Legal History and Aboriginal Law before retiring in 2014.
Below is a small selection of Professor Foster’s publications on the legal history of British Columbia available through the library:
“For the Better Administration of Justice: The British Columbia Court of Appeal, 1910-2010” (2009) 162 BC Studies, pp 5-24 (co-edited by John McLaren and Wes Pue).
“‘We Want a Strong Promise’: The Opposition to Indian Treaties in British Columbia, 1850-1990,” (2009) 18 Native Studies Review, pp 113-137.
The Grand Experiment: Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies (Toronto: The Osgoode Society and the University of British Columbia Press, 2008), (co-edited with Andrew Buck and Benjamin Berger). Call number: KD5020 G72 2008
“We Are Not O’Meara’s Children: Law, Lawyers and the First Campaign for Aboriginal Title in British Columbia, 1908-1928” in Hamar Foster, Heather Raven and Jeremy Webber, eds, Let Right Be Done: Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case and the Future of Indigenous Rights (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), pp 61-84. Call number: KID4407 L47 2007
“Honouring the Queen’s Flag: A Legal and Historical Perspective on the Nisga’a Treaty” (1998) 120 BC Studies, pp 11-36.
“British Columbia: Legal Institutions in the Far West, from Contact to 1871″ (1995) 23 Manitoba Law Journal, pp 293-340.
“Hard Choices and Sharp Edges: The Legal History of British Columbia and the Yukon” in Hamar Foster and John McLaren, eds, Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume VI: British Columbia and the Yukon (Toronto: University of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society for Legal History, 1995) pp 3-27 (co-authored with John McLaren). Call number: KF345 E8
“The Saanichton Bay Marina Case: Imperial Law, Colonial History and Competing Theories of Aboriginal Title” (1989) 23 University of British Columbia Law Review, pp 629-650.
“The Struggle for the Supreme Court: Law and Politics in British Columbia 1871-1885” in Knafla, Louis A, ed, Law and Justice in a New Land: Essays in Western Canadian Legal History (Toronto: Carswell, 1986), pp 167-213.
Call number: KF345 L388 1984
Congratulations Hamar!