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Martin Friedland

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Martin Lawrence Friedland
Born(1932-09-21)September 21, 1932(age 92)
Toronto,Ontario
CitizenshipCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
University of Cambridge
Known forContributions to theCanadian legal systemand to the administration of justice[1]
SpouseJudith Fern Friedland
ChildrenThomas Friedland, Jennifer Friedland, Nancy Friedland

Martin Lawrence Friedland,CCQCFRSC(born September 21, 1932) is a Canadian lawyer, academic and author.

He received aBComm.(1955),LL.B.(1958), and honorary LL.D. from theUniversity of Toronto,and a PhD (1968) andLL.DfromCambridge University.He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1960. He taught atOsgoode Hall Law Schooluntil 1965 when he joined the University of Toronto as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 1968 and served as dean from 1972–1979.

He was appointed a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Canadain 1983. In 1990 he was made an Officer of theOrder of Canadaand was promoted to Companion in 2003. He was awarded theMolson Prizein 1994. In 2003 he was awarded the Sir John William Dawson Medal, for important contributions of knowledge in multiple domains, by the Royal Society of Canada. He received an honorary LL.D fromYork Universityin 2003.

Selected works

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  • A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability in Canada
  • Access to the Law
  • Detention before Trial
  • Double Jeopardy
  • The Case of Valentine Shortis[2]
  • The Death of Old Man Rice[3][4]
  • The Trials of Israel Lipski[5]
  • The University of Toronto: A History(University of Toronto Press, 2002, second edition, 2013ISBN0-8020-4429-8)
  • My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures
  • Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma(2020)

References

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  1. ^Order of Canada citation
  2. ^cf.Shortis caseatThe Canadian Encyclopedia
  3. ^"Review ofThe Death of Old Man Riceby Martin L. Friedland ".Publishers Weekly.August 29, 1994.(SeeWilliam Marsh Rice.)
  4. ^Lipartito, Kenneth (2011). "Review ofThe Death of Old Man Rice: A True Story of Criminal Justice in America,by Martin L. Friedland, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 423. $37.50 (ISBN 0-8020-2941-8) ".Law and History Review.14(2): 395–396.doi:10.2307/743798.ISSN0738-2480.JSTOR743798.
  5. ^Renfert, Blaine G. (1986)."Review ofThe Trials of Israel Lipski".Michigan Law Review.842(4): 842–845.doi:10.2307/1288853.JSTOR1288853.(SeeIsrael Lipski.)

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