W. Wesley Pue (1954-2019): A Personal Appreciation

Abstract

A personal appreciation of Wes Pue (1954-2019), a leading light of Canadian legal history, who is best known for his richly detailed, ground-breaking research which unravelled the ways in which lawyers and legal education shaped culture, cultural authority, identity, politics and the British empire in England and its Empire from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.

Keywords: legal history, legal profession, legal education, law and society, socio-legal studies, law and culture, law and empire, law and the British Empire, Canada, cultural studies, cultural history, colonialism, law and humanities, comparative legal history