BA and MA (Toronto), PhD (Warwick)

(with Paul Craven), eds., Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), a volume in Studies in Legal History, the series of the American Society for Legal History, 591pp. Joint author chap 1 (1-58), sole author chap 2 (59-116).

Biographies of the high court judges Lloyd Kenyon CJKB, William Ashhurst JKB, James Eyre CJCP, Simon LeBlanc JKB for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (60 vols., Oxford University Press, 2004).

“The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century,” in Philip Girard, Jim Phillips and Barry Cahill, eds., The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia 1754-12004: From Imperial bastion to Provincial Oracle (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press, 2004), 13-29.

“Legislation, Magistrates, and Judges: High Law and Low Law in England and the Empire,” in David Lemmings, ed., The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century (London: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), 59-79.

“Women, Men, and Empires of Law” [review essay], Journal of British Studies , vol. 44 no.1 (January 2005), 204-212.

“Masters, magistrates, commanders and coercion in Britain and the Empire”, Northeast Conference on British Studies conference, Montreal, 1 October 2004

"The Law of master and servant in eighteenth-century Scotland”, Toronto Legal History Seminar, 10 March 2005, and Scottish Studies Seminar, Department of History, University of Guelph, 14 March 2005

“Legal and Criminal Lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography”, Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario, London, 31 May 2005

Osgoode Hall Law School Research Fellowship (one term)
Small SSHRC ($1,000) “Contract of Employment in Ireland”