Out of the Shadows:
The Civil Law Tradition in the Department of Justice Canada, 1868–2000

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Table of Contents

• Critiques
  
  
• Acknowledgements
  
  
• Introduction
  
  
• The Beginnings of Civil Law on Canadian Soil:
  • Historical Review (1663-1867)
  • The Custom of Paris (1663)
  • The Quebec Act (1774)
  • The Civil Code of Lower Canada (1857-1866)
  
  
• The Long Road to Recognition:
  • The First Civilians at the Department of Justice (1867-1952)
  • Birth of a Department
  • The First Civilians
  • The Rise of the Civilians
    
    
• Gaining a Place at the Department of Justice:
  • The Birth of the Civil Law Section and Its Development (1952-1986)
  • Difficult Beginnings
  • The Start of a New Era
  • The Upheavals of the 1960s
  • The Glassco Commission and Its Repercussions
  • The Montréal Regional Office
  • Meanwhile, Back in Ottawa
  
  
• Paving the Way for Genuine Bijuralism: Harmonization
  and Recognition of the Place of Civil Law at the
  Department of Justice (1986 to the Present)
  • Distribution of Cases Between Ottawa and Montréal
  • Harmonizing Federal Laws: From Administration to Politics
  • Increasing the Visibility of Civil Law and Its Practitioners
    
    
• Conclusion
  
  
• Appendix 1: Ministers of Justice Trained in Civil Law
  
  
• Appendix 2: Chronological Highlights
  
  
• Bibliography
  

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