The images in this collection are collected from several series of historical photos throughout Osgoode Digital Commons.
If you would like to view the images in their original galleries please follow the links below:
Osgoode@125 Historical Photo ExhibitOsgoode Catalysts
Remembrance Day
Graduating Class Composites
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1973 - Complementary Knowledge
The first issue of alumni magazine Continuum is printed. The curriculum is expanded to include a joint-degree leading to an LLB/MBA. The combined degree is the first of its kind in Canada. Osgoode’s timing couldn’t have been better. New office towers are redefining the Toronto skyline as large corporations move into the Canadian market and consequently, commercial law firms expand their staff and premises. The first contingent of mature students enters the LLB program. The Financial District, 1978.
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1972 - The Next Generation
Osgoode Hall Law School grants its first Bachelor of Laws degree. The Class of 1972 is the first to begin and complete their legal studies at York University. Harry Arthurs becomes the Dean of Osgoode. This is the Yonge and Finch plaza in 1971. Exponential growth would lead to the incorporation of North York as a city.
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The Honourable Russell Juriansz ’72 (1946- )
Born in India, Justice Russell Juriansz came to Toronto at the age of nine. In 1969, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science degree and then enrolled at Osgoode where he distinguished himself as President of the Legal & Literary Society. Juriansz practised in administrative, constitutional and employment law, concentrating on human rights, labour relations, pay equity, pension and benefits, and the Charter. From 1978 to 1987 he was General Counsel and Director of Legal Services for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, then went on to become a partner at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP before establishing his own practice. He was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice, then called the Ontario Court (General Division), in 1998. He was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2004 and became the first person of colour and the first South Asian judge on the Court.
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1971 - Trouble in Paradise
A student-staffed community legal services clinic is established at Parkdale Community Legal Services. Professor Fred Zemans serves as its first director, and Professor Mary Jane Mossman is its first articling student. Members of the Law Society’s Legal Aid Committee read that Osgoode Hall Law School is operating a storefront law office which would offer free legal advice and debates seeking a legal injunction against the school. They consider withdrawing the name “Osgoode Hall” from the Law School.
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1970 - The Unquiet Revolution
Osgoode forms a Clinical Training Committee to supervise the activities of the Community and Legal Assistance Services Programme (CLASP). The original committee includes Professors William Neilson, Garry Watson, Stephen Borins, and students, Terry O’Sullivan and Larry Taman. The October Crisis occurs. In response, Pierre Trudeau introduces the War Measures Act. Believing this to be an unjustifiable suppression of civil liberties, Osgoode students hold a teach-in in protest of the War Measures Act.
