Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) win Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

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Writer Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) continue to be recognized for their co-authored 2022 book Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation.

Stobo Sniderman, an alumnus of the Faculty of Law, and Sanderson, the Prichard Wilson Chair in Law & Public Policy and the Decanal Advisor on Indigenous Issues, have been awarded the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies.

The award, which recognizes the best non-fiction book about the Great Plains – the North American flatlands reaching west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains into parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta – comes with a cash prize of $10,000 (USD).

In Valley of the Birdtail, Stobo Sniderman and Sanderson tell the story of two communities in Manitoba “divided by a valley, a river and 150 years of racism.”

“We want to start a real conversation about an equitable and shared future,” Stobo Sniderman told U of T News last year when the book was published.

The writers will give a book prize lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln later this year.

Recently awarded the 2023 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, Valley of the Birdtail has also received an honourable mention from the W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Law and Society Association to the best book on law and society published in the previous year in English or French.

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Jim Phillips awarded W. Wesley Pue Book Prize

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Jim Phillips awarded W. Wesley Pue Book Prize

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Jim Phillips is the co-author of A History of Law in Canada: Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914 (supplied images)

Jim Phillips, a professor in the Faculty of Law, and his co-authors Philip Girard, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Faculty of Law alumnus R. Blake Brown, a professor in the department of history at Saint Mary’s University and an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law, have been awarded the Canadian Law and Society Association's W. Wesley Pue Book Prize for A History of Law in Canada: Volume II: Law for the New Dominion, 1867-1914.

The prize is awarded to the best book on law and society published in the previous year in English or in French. Their book was published in 2022 by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press. Phillips is the editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Society.

The jury citation said the authors have “significantly contributed to law and society scholarship with a monumental book of legal history. Comprehensive and meticulously sourced, Phillips, Girard and Brown illustrate how plural legal orders – Indigenous law, common law and civil law – were impacted by the process of developing and consolidating a national legal order in Canada, and how fundamental aspects of the Canadian legal order took form between 1867 and 1914. Such a new and outstanding work in law and society is absolutely deserving of the CLSA’s W. Wesley Pue Book Prize.”

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