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Peter Fitzpatrick part 4

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "Asylum histories"; "Taking place : aboriginality and the failure of legal foundation"; "Introduction - law's resistance"; "The already stifling reign of society : sociology and the containment of law"; "The coincidence of opposites : American empire and the rule of law"; "An unavowable community : positivism and the quality of international legal being"; "Social theories"; and "Unlikely assassins : imperialism and the ends of international law." Articles include annotations made by Hans Mohr.

Peter Fitzpatrick part 3

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "The inevitability of law"; "The triumph of a departed world : law, the sacred and the American empire"; "No higher duty : Mabo and the failure of legal foundation"; "Founding the normative : poststructural law and the constitution of peoples" and "Precolonialism - Nelson Mandela and the law of the law." File also includes an article by Peter Goodrich entitled "A delirious profession" and correspondence between Hans Mohr and Fitzpatrick. Articles include annotations by Mohr.

J.W. (Hans) Mohr fonds

  • F0642
  • Fonds
  • 1900-2013

Fonds consists of publications, professional and personal correspondence, reports, newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, greeting cards, postcards, photographs, conference papers, seminar papers, student evaluations, meeting minutes, memos, research articles, curriculum vitae and publications list, and unpublished manuscripts. The fonds documents Mohr's work in the fields of psychiatry, law reform, legal education, criminal justice in Canada, family equality, sentencing standards, and more. The fonds includes: handwritten letters written in German by Mohr to his wife and family during the 1950s when he moved to Canada, as well as letters written in German by friends; draft manuscripts and articles from his colleagues; meeting minutes and memos from law reform organizations; printed online articles about the Law Commission of Canada and its work; correspondence with members of law reform organizations of the Law Commission of Canada regarding reports and upcoming policies. Mohr visited many other universities for lectures, seminars and conferences, in addition to participating in professional organizations. Fonds includes his papers used at these events such as 'Clinical Judgements and Citizen Reviews and the Children's Act,' the 'International Congress on Law and Psychiatry,' and 'National Consultation on Sentencing.' Fonds includes a collection of papers and reports on subjects about the Max Planck Institute, feminism, postmodernism and the law, rhetoric language and the law, psychiatry and medical works, law and theory, and criminal law. Fonds also includes physical and electronic versions of Mohr's unpublished manuscripts, as well as electronic versions of some of Mohr's outgoing correspondence.

Mohr, J. W., 1928-2008

Remembrance files

Series consists of correspondence relating to Hans Mohr’s death, photographs of his personal library, a collection of poems entitled Memento mori: paintings and poetry published after Mohr’s death, and a book of friends and family’s notes from the funerals of Hans and Ingeborg Mohr.

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "Making difference : modernity and the political formations of death"; "Law as theory : constitutive thought in the formation of practice"; and "Surpassing sovereignty." Articles include annotations made by Hans Mohr.

Condolences

File consists of letters, e-mail printouts, and greeting cards sent to Mohr’s daughters expressing condolences for Mohr’s death from friends, family and colleagues. File also includes a few letters to Hans before his death.

Condolences

File consists of letters, e-mail printouts, and greeting cards sent to Mohr’s daughters expressing condolences from friends, family and colleagues.

Memento mori: paintings and poetry

File consists of the book Memento mori: paintings and poetry, published after Mohr’s death in July 2008 by his three children. These poems were written for his wife, Ingeborg Mohr, while she was sick. Included in the book are select images of Ingeborg’s paintings.

Richard Cullen

File consists of letters, greeting cards and postcards. File also consists of copies of articles written by Richard Cullen with inscriptions to Hans Mohr; print out copies of e-mail correspondence between Richard Cullen and Yan Xu regarding Marxist theory and China; print out copies of e-mail correspondence between Paul VonNessen and Richard Cullen regarding China; a copy of an article by Theodore Dalrymple entitled "What the New Atheists Don't See" with an inscription by Richard Cullen; an article written by Cullen entitled "Political Reform in Hong Kong - Within Greater China"; an article entitled "Who Owns China" written by Richard Cullen and Yan Xu; and an article entitled "Building a fair property regime on the mainland" written by Richard Cullen and Yan Xu.

Book of friends

File includes a book of signatures and notes from friends and family attending Ingeborg Mohr’s funeral and then Hans Mohr’s funeral.

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of letters and postcards from Peter Fitzpatrick that discuss numerous topics including upcoming articles, theory, philosophy, legal theory, and legal education. File also includes letters that discuss critiques and suggestions about Mohr's manuscripts written during his retirement, such as 'The banality of evil / the evil of banality.'

Harry Arthurs

File consists of letters from Harry Arthurs regarding personal matters, upcoming articles, politics, and theory. File also includes letters that discuss Mohr's annotations and critiques of Arthurs' articles, as well as an article written by Arthurs entitled "The university and the rule of law."

Peter Bieselt

File consists of handwritten and typed letters from Peter Bieselt, photographs, and a newspaper article.

Post-cartesian transformations and notes

File consists of two diskettes with comments and editions of Mohr’s manuscripts, “The absence of presence / the presence of absence : an inquiry into the question of nothingness,” and “Politics of aesthetics / aesthetics of politics.” File also includes an annotated copy of part three of Mohr’s “Post-cartesian transformations” and Mohr’s handwritten revisions and notes for his manuscripts.

Academic files of Hans Mohr

Series consists of article, reports, lectures, and presentations written by Mohr throughout his career on topics such as psychiatry, mental health, homosexuality, family equality, children's rights, sentencing, criminology, criminal law, legal reform, legal education, and sociology, as well as copies of his book reviews. Many of his articles are original annotated drafts, final editions or in offprint format. Series includes seminar papers on his course about structuralism, his course "Sociology 92-456 : The sociology of law," "Law 324 : Children and the law," his seminar on "Theory and empiricism in law," and his graduate seminar "Legal research, policy and reform." Series also includes evaluations written in 1981 by students in courses "Social foundations of law" and "Law and psychiatry." In addition, series includes drafts of conference papers and articles written by friends and colleagues such as Peter Fitzpatrick, Harry W. Arthurs, Roderick A. Macdonald, Kurt Wolff, and Marie Andree Bertrand. Some of these drafts have annotations made by Mohr. Series also includes: offprints inscribed to Mohr by friends and colleagues such as Alan Hunt, Douglas Hay and Charles David Axelrod; newspaper articles about Mohr and his work with law, psychiatry, sentencing, criminal law, and law reforms; and a collection of research articles on similar topics.

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "The new constitutionalism : the global, the postcolonial and the constitution of nations"; "Latin roots : imperialism and the formation of modern law"; "Is humanity enough? The secular theology of human rights"; "The law of international law"; "What are the gods to us now? Secular theology and the modernity of law"; "The normality of the exception in democracy's empire"; and "The triumph of a departed world : law, the sacred and the American empire." Articles include annotations made by Hans Mohr.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence from friends and colleagues including Michael Gormann-Thelen, M. Tippett, Alfred Wirth, and Daniel S. Perlitz, as well as copies of letters written by Mohr. File also includes a newspaper obituary for Robert (Bob) Miller; David Andrew's article entitled "Climates for landscapes" and a copy of an article by Theodore Shapiro entitled "Naming the unnamable."

Miscellaneous

File consists of an article entitled "Cosmos and psyche: intimations of a new world view" by Richard Tarnas, cartoon and magazine clippings, an obituary for John Douglas Morecroft Griffin, and copies of articles by Jim Holt, Mark Edmundson, Paul Q. Beeching, Umberto Eco, Anders Henriksson, and Dennis Mills.

Cyril Greenland

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Cyril Greenland regarding teaching critical thinking to students, personal matters, politics, universities, films, books, and archives. File also includes: a printed online article entitled "Ashcroft's coverup scandalizes U.S. capital" by Suzanne Fields, an article by Greenland entitled "At the Crichton Royal with William Mayer-Gross," an article entitled "Psychiatry, postmodernism and postnormal science" by Richard Laugharne, a draft of Greenland's paper "Madness and poetry : the case of Porphyria's lover," and a newsletter from the Archives on the History of Canadian Psychiatry and Mental Health Services.

Istvan Anhalt

File consists of newspaper articles about Istvan Anhalt, an article written by Anhalt with a handwritten inscription to Mohr entitled "American music," a program from the Kingston Symphony, a keynote address from Anhalt from 2008 entitled "Of the centre, periphery; exile, liberation, home, and the self," greeting cards, postcards and correspondence from Anhlat to Mohr.

Toni Pickard

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Toni Pickard regarding Mohr's unpublished manuscripts, philosophy, sociology, theory, personal matters, writing, language, history, and culture. File also includes an article written by Pickard entitled "Is real life finally happening?"

Roderick A. MacDonald

File consists of articles written Macdonald: "Kaleidoscopic federalism"; "Patchwork law reform : your idea is good in practice, but it won't work in theory"; and "Frames of reference." Many of the articles are annotated by Hans Mohr.

Harry W. Arthurs

File consists of articles written Arthurs and annotated by Hans Mohr entitled "The spider, the bee, the snail and the camel : legal knowledge, practice, culture, institutions and power in a changing world"; "What immortal hand or eye? : who will redraw the boundaries of labour law?"; "Vox populi : populism, the legislative process and the Canadian constitution"; "From governance to political economy : insights from a study of relations between corporations and workers"; "Corporate self-regulation : political economy, state regulation and reflexive labour law"; and "Law and learning in an era of globalization."

Mark Novack

File consists of correspondence between Mark Novak and Mohr regarding comments on articles, politics, personal matters, and publishing articles. File also includes: an article written by Novak entitled "Biography after the end of metaphysics : a critique of epigenetic evolution," photographs, and a magazine article entitled "The unique power of Russia's underground language" by Victor Erofeyev.

Nick Tavouchi

File consists of letters from Nick Tavouchi regarding reading, personal matters, comments on Mohr's unpublished manuscripts, technology, theory and sociology.

Correspondence of Hans Mohr

Series consists of personal and professional letters and cards received by J.W. (Hans) Mohr from friends and colleagues including Harry W. Arthurs, Roderick A. Macdonald, Robert (Bob) Siemens, Michel Silberfeld, Bob Glossop, Istvan Anhalt, Peter Bieselt, Richard Cullen, and Cyril Greenland discussing philosophy, law reform, law and education, the effects of law on society from the 1960s to the late 1990s, upcoming publications, criminology, sociology, publishing, current events, political theory, legal theory, psychiatry, psychology, conferences, seminars, university policies and academic standards, history, religion, perspectives on educating university students, and events in their personal lives. File also consists of correspondence regarding publication of Hans Mohr’s manuscripts, the death of Ingeborg Mohr, Hans Mohr’s illness, condolences to the Mohr family on Hans’s death, and personal notes and revisions of articles

Personal files of Hans Mohr

Series consists of greeting cards, postcards, correspondence, personal notebooks, photographs and a guestbook from Ingeborg's art exhibits. Greeting cards express holiday and birthday messages, in addition to remarks on Mohr's 50th wedding anniversary and condolences on Ingeborg's death in 2004. The postcards were sent to Mohr from family and friends with images of European cities such as Dresden, Vienna, Edinburgh, Paris, and Athens, as well as Canadian cities such as Montreal and Vancouver. In addition, the series includes two handwritten personal notebooks by Mohr in German from the 1950s, two notebooks of early poetry, and handwritten correspondence between Mohr and his friends from when he travelled to Canada.

Richard Cullen

File consists of letters, greeting cards and postcards. File also includes a colour and black and white photocopy of Richard Cullen and Hans Mohr, as well as copies of articles written by Richard Cullen with inscriptions to Hans Mohr.

Roderick Macdonald

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Roderick A. Macdonald regarding personal matters, as well as criticisms of texts such as "Lessons of everyday law," the work of the Law Reform Commission of Canada and career advancements.

Michel Silberfeld

File consists of letters from Michel Silberfeld regarding personal matters, articles and book reviews, theory, and religion.

Michael Menzinger

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Michael Menzinger. File also includes a copy of a newspaper article entitled "People don't want to hear about God."

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "In the end, or the cause of law"; "Copying right : cultural property and the limits of occidental law"; "The triumph of a departed world : law, modernity and the sacred"; and "What are the gods to us now? Secular theology and the modernity of law." Articles include annotations made by Hans Mohr.

Paul Roazen

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Paul Roazen regarding publishing articles and books, editing articles, personal matters, philosophy. legal theory, and psychology. File also includes an application form to the American Philosophical Society regarding a research proposal about psychoanalysis.

Lorraine

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Lorraine [Berzins].

Jane Glassco

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Jane Glassco regarding personal matters.

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "The believer"; "Taking place : the spaces and timing of law"; "Access as justice"; "The damned world : culture and its incompatibility with law"; and "Bare sovereignty : homo sacer and the insistence of law." Articles include annotations made by Hans Mohr.

Richard Cullen

File consists of letters and postcards regarding theory, philosophy, personal matters, travels, and technology. File also includes a small collection of articles sent by Cullen to Mohr on topics such as philosophy, and short stories.

Kurt H. Wolff

File consists of articles written by Kurt H. Wolff that were sent to Hans Mohr for revision. Some articles have annotations made by Hans Mohr. File also consists of correspondence between Mohr and Wolff, as well as correspondence between Mohr and publishers regarding Mohr reviewing Wolf's works.

Roderick A. MacDonald

File consists of articles written by Macdonald: "Orchestrating legal multilingualism" and "The acoustics of accountability : towards well-tempered tribunals." Many of the articles are annotated by Mohr. File also includes two articles on law.

Harry W. Arthurs

File consists of draft articles written by Arthurs and annotated by Hans Mohr entitled "The hollowing out of corporate Canada? How the microphysics of power may shape the fate of nations"; "The pachyderm and the predator : two fables about the social regulation of the global firm"; "Constitutional courage"; "The administrative state goes to market"; "Does the charter matter?"; and "Vox populi : populism, the legislative process and the Canadian constitution."

Correspondence

File consists of letters to Hans Mohr and his wife Ingeborg Mohr, as well as letters, greeting cards, and postcards expressing condolences to Hans after the death of Ingeborg. File also includes copies of Hans’ poems from his collection Memento mori.

Correspondence

File consists of letters, greeting cards and postcards expressing condolences to Hans after the death of his wife, Ingeborg.

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of articles written by Fitzpatrick: "Gods would be needed : an American empire and the rule of international law" and "We know what it is when you do not ask us : the unchallengeable nation." Both articles include annotations made by Hans Mohr.

Ron Bouchard

File consists of correspondence between Mohr and Ron Bouchard regarding personal matters, philosophy, and education . File includes a copy of Bouchard's thesis proposal, and an essay entitled "Obligation, autonomy and halachah" for Mohr's comments.

Roderick A. MacDonald

File consists of articles written by Macdonald: "The governance of human agency"; "Legal republicanism and legal pluralism : two takes on identity and diversity"; "What is graduate legal education for?"; and "Triangulating social law reform." Many of the articles are annotated by Hans Mohr.

Hans Mohr's files for professional organizations

Series consists of certificates of appreciation and membership from organizations such as The National Organization of Child Care Worker Associations Inc., The Christian Festival, The Board of Governors of Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology, The Coalition for Gun Control, the Canadian Criminal Justice Association, and a certificate of appreciation from the African National Congress signed by Nelson R. Mandela in 1995. Series includes reports, meeting minutes, research updates, memoranda, notes and articles from organizations such as the Vanier Institute of the Family, the Law Commission of Canada, the Round Table on Citizen Agency, Big Brothers of Canada, and the Church Council on Justice and Corrections, as well as correspondence between officials of the institutions and Mohr. Included in the series is the report, "Restorative justice discussion paper" from 1999, and a signed letter from Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau acknowledging receipt of Mohr's paper, "The politics of the family and the family in politics."

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence from friends and colleagues including Antonio Lamer, Murray Wilson, Ian A. Stuart, Peter W. Hogg, Bob Martens, and M. Louise Marchand, as well as copies of letters written by Mohr. Some letters are written in German. File also includes: an article by Michael Shelden entitled "The road to publication," and an article entitled "Neoliberalism und pornographic: the enemy in my bed."

Bob Glossop

File consists of a letter from Bob Glossop regarding Mohr's unpublished manuscript 'One-an-other,' as well as two poems written by Glossop.

A whole, a fragment / by Kurt H. Wolff

File consists of correspondence between Hans Mohr and Lexington Books regarding editing Kurt Wolff's books "What it contains" and "A whole, a fragment." File also includes an unedited proof for Wolff's book, "A whole, a fragment."

Peter Fitzpatrick

File consists of articles written by Peter Fitzpatrick: "Laws of post colonialism : an insistent introduction"; "Enacted in the destiny of sedentary peoples : racism, discovery and the grounds of law"; "An empire of liberty? Locating the new legal imperialism"; "Law like poetry"; "These mad abandon'd times"; "Law in the domains of death : capital punishment and legal imperialism"; and "Laws of empire : American imperialism and resistant legality." Many of the articles include inscriptions written by Fitzpatrick to Hans Mohr.

Harry W. Arthurs

File consists of draft articles written by Arthurs and annotated by Hans Mohr entitled "Canada's constitutional moment"; "Constitutionalism now : of high hopes, low cunning, true believers and false gods"; "Corporate self-regulation : political economy, state regulation and reflexive labour law"; "National traditions in labour law scholarship : the Canadian case"; "The constitutional entrenchment of neo liberalism in the Canadian federation"; "Commentary : panel on comparative constitutionalism Law and Society Association"; "Remarks to convocation University of Toronto"; "Remarks to convocation University of Montreal"; "Remarks of Harry W. Arthurs Killam Laureate in the Social Sciences, Ottawa, April 25, 2002"; "Less than meets the eye : how judges, tribunal members and labour lawyers adjust to globalization"; and "Woe unto ye judges : or how reading Frankfurter and Greene, The Labour Injunction, ruined me as a labour lawyer and made me as an academic."

Harry W. Arthurs

File consists of draft articles written by Arthurs and annotated by Hans Mohr entitled: "What do we think we know about law? The politics of legal knowledge"; "Reinventing labor law for the global economy"; "A new constitution for the public domain : Canadian governance in the wake of globalization, neo-liberalism, regionalism and populism"; "The new constitutionalism and the prospects for the activist state"; "The world turned upside down : are changes in political economy and legal practice transforming legal education and scholarship? Or vice versa?"; "Governance : civil society, the state, the economy"; "Where have you gone, John R. Commons, now that we need you so?"; "Corporate self-regulation : political economy, state regulation and reflexive labour law"; and "Poor Canadian legal education : so near to Wall Street, so far from God."

Robert "Bob" Siemens

File consists of correspondence between Robert "Bob" Siemens regarding personal matters, critiques and suggestions about Mohr's manuscripts written during his retirement, such as 'Idiotic logic' and 'The absence of presence / the presence of absence,' sociology, and humanities. File also includes: a printed online article about the cognitive-psychological study of ayahuasca, philosophy, and a newsletter from the Anabaptist Sociology and Anthropology Association.

Roderick A. MacDonald

File consists of articles written by Macdonald: "Pursuing justice"; "Epistles to apostles"; "By any other name"; "In the beginning was the word"; "Let our future not be behind us : the legal profession in changing times"; "The fridge-door statute"; "The acoustics of accountability : towards well-tempered tribunals"; and "Metaphors of multiplicity : civil society, regimes and legal pluralism." Many of the articles are annotated by Hans Mohr. File also consists of correspondence between Macdonald and Mohr regarding the articles and the Law Commission of Canada.

Toni

File consists of letters and postcards from Toni Pickard regarding criminal law, language, power, hierarchy, yoga, personal matters, theory, education, training and reading Mohr's articles. File also includes an article by Pickard "Experience as teacher : discovering the politics of law teaching" and a letter from Mohr explaining his thoughts on Catharine A. Mackinnon's article "Feminism."

Harry W. Arthurs

File consists of articles written by Arthurs and annotated by Hans Mohr entitled: "The collective labour law of a global economy"; "Labour law and industrial relations in the global economy"; "Globalization and its discontents"; "Mechanical arts and merchandise : Canadian public administration in the new economy"; "Globalization of the mind : Canadian elites and the restructuring of legal fields"; "The political economy of Canadian legal education"; "Tina x 2 : constitutionalizing neo-conservatism and regional economic integration"; and "The constitution of the new public domain."

Miscellaneous part 1

File consists of reports and articles regarding sentencing and the Young Offender's Act by Mohr and the Church Council on Justice and Corrections.

Miscellaneous

File consists of letters and poems by Bradley Crawford, as well as handwritten school work completed by Mohr in Germany. File also includes: a paper entitled "Dynamics of social progress : considerations on the dynamic changes of social patterns" with a grade and annotations, most likely written by Mohr, and an article entitled "Is this political : the art of Alex Colville" by C.E.S. Franks.

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