Wright, J. Barry
Professor Emeritus, Honorary Professor, T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia
- B.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (York), LL.M. (London), Ph.D. (York)
- Email Wright, J. Barry
- 613-520-2600 x. 8201
Current research
- Political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history
- Utilitarianism, 19th century criminal law reform and codification
- Comparative study of rule of law issues and 19th century British colonial and post colonial governance
Teaching interests
- history
- criminal and constitutional law
- legal, political and social theory
Selected publications
Recent Books:
Canadian State Trials Volume Five: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990 (co-edited with Susan Binnie and Eric Tucker) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022 (530 pages).
Canadian State Trials Volume Four: Security, Dissent and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939 (co-edited with Eric Tucker and Susan Binnie) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015
Codification, Macaulay and the Indian Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform (co-edited with Wing-Cheong Chan and Stanley Yeo) Ashgate UK, 2011
Looking at Law: Canada’s Legal System 6th. ed. (co-authored with P.J. Fitzgerald and Vincent Kazmierski) Toronto: LexisNexis-Butterworths, 2010
(see CV link or Law.UQ link above for a full list of publications)