J. Barry Wright
Professor Emeritus (cross appointed Law and Criminology); 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 J. Barry Wright
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 Media Appearances
- for their podcast series on new Canadian history books
Selected Recent Publications:
‘Gouzenko, Petrov, and the Canadian and Australian Espionage Commissions: The Rule of Law and the Neo-Colonial Development of Cold War Security States’ (2025) vol.36 (3) King’s Law Journal
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
‘State Trials in Post-revolution British North America’ in M. Davis, E. Macleod, and G. Pentland eds., Political Trials in an Age of Revolution: Britain and the North Atlantic, 1793-1848, London: Macmillan, 2019.
‘Macaulay’s India Law Reforms and Labour in the British Empire’ in Shaunnagh Dorsett and John McLaren eds., Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies London: Routledge, 2014.
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