Wesley Pue Book Prize Winners
2026
Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (UBC Press, 2025) Honourable Mention: Qian Liu, Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships (University of California Press, 2025)
2025
Margaret L. Boittin, The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials (Cambridge University Press, 2024) Honourable Mentions: Elaine Craig, Mainstreaming Porn: Sexual Integrity and the Law Online (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024) Mary Jane Mossman, Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2024)
2024
Emilie Biland, Family Law in Action: Divorce and Inequality in Quebec and France, Trans. Annelies Fryberger and Miranda Richardson Mouillot (UBC Press, 2023) Honourable Mention: Rabiat Akande, Entangled Domains: Empire, Law, and Religion in Northern Nigeria (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
2023
Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown, History of Law in Canada, Volume 2: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914 (University of Toronto Press, 2022) Honourable Mention: Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (Harper Collins, 2022)
2022
Jocelyn Hendrickson, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa (Harvard University Press, 2021) Honourable Mention: Nathalie Kermoal and Chris Andersen, editors, Daniels v. Canada: In and Beyond the Courts (University of Manitoba Press, 2021)
2021
Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Céline Bellot, Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People (Cambridge University Press, 2020) Honourable Mention: Eric Reiter, Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870-1920 (University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2019)
2020
John Borrows, Law's Indigenous Ethics (University of Toronto Press, 2019) Honourable Mention: Adelle Blackett, Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers' Transnational Challenge to International Labor Law (Cornell University Press, 2019)
2019
Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018) Honourable Mention: Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1866 (University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society, 2018)
2018
Constance Backhouse, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé: A Life (UBC Press, 2017)
Honourable Mention: Prashan Ranasinghe, Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter (University of Toronto Press, 2017)
2017
W. Wesley Pue, Lawyers’ Empire: Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950 (UBC Press, 2016)
2016
Craig Forcese and Kent Roach, False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-Terrorism (Irwin Law, 2015)
2015
Richard Weisman, Showing Remorse: Law and the Social Control of Emotion (Ashgate, 2014) Honourable Mention: Dominique Clément, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84 (UBC Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2014)
2014
Mary Anne Waldron, Free to Believe: Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
2013
R. Blake Brown, Arming and Disarming: A History of Gun Control in Canada (University of Toronto Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012) Honourable Mentions: Shelley Gavigan, Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905 (UBC Press and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2012) David Milward, Aboriginal Justice and the Charter: Realizing a Culturally Sensitive Interpretation of Legal Rights (UBC Press, 2012)
2011
John Borrows, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (University of Toronto Press, 2010) Honourable Mention: Ken Leyton-Brown, The Practice of Execution in Canada (UBC Press, 2010)
