Published first in 2019
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Cover Art: The foreground features a photo of Chief Justice Robson, the background is adapted from “Great Gray Owl” By Brian Seed OWS SCA.
Special Issue Chief Justice Hugh Robson: His Original Voice and Contemporary Reflections examines one of the founders of the Manitoba Law School, including his auto-biography and a series of articles about him.
Contents:
Introduction | Page i
An Introduction from the Manitoba Law Journal – The Life and Works of Chief Justice Hugh Amos Robson
Schwartz, Bryan P.
Article | Page 1
Hugh Amos Robson: Lawyer, Judge, Founder of the Manitoba Law School, Politician, Popular Public Servant
Penner, Roland
Article | Page 46
H.A. Robson’s Autobiography
Robson, Hugh Amos
Article | Page 56
Strike or Revolution? H.A. Robson’s Inquiry and the Winnipeg General Strike
Mitchell, Tom
Article | Page 85
Hugh A. Robson – A Labour Jurist Ahead of his Time
Curran, Bruce
Article | Page 99
Report on the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
Robson, Hugh Amos
Article | Page 134
Prairie Vice: Reflecting on Robson’s Report of the Royal Commission Re Charges of Vice and of Graft Against the Police – A Winnipeg Study
Jochelson, Richard; Laidlaw, Leon; Bertrand, Michelle
Article | Page 173
Report on the Proliferation of Prostitution in Winnipeg
Robson, Hugh Amos
Article | Page 192
Chief Justice Robson’s Prescient Interpretation of Corporate Criminal Liability
MacPherson, Darcy L.
Article | Page 204
On Company Law
Robson, Hugh Amos
Article | Page 215
Robson JA: The Manitoba Court of Appeal in the Robson Era
Bueckert, Melanie R.
Article | Page 241
Memorial Essay to Sir James Albert Manning Aikins, K.C.
Robson, Hugh Amos
Article | Page 249
The Failure of Liberal Reform: Hugh Robson as Manitoba Liberal Leader, 1927–1929
Ferguson, Barry
Article | Page 278
Speech by H.A. Robson: The Revival of Liberalism
Robson, Hugh Amos
Article | Page 286
From Reading Courses to Robson Hall: The Development of Legal Education in the Province of Manitoba, 1877–1968
Renaud, Matthew