Rande Kostal
Academic Degrees:
LL.B. (Western University) 1981, M.A. (McMaster) 1983, Ph.D. (Oxford) 1989, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1984.
| Email: | rwk@uwo.ca |
| Phone: | 519 661-2111 ext. 88415 |
| Office: | LB 18 |
A faculty member at Western since 1988, Professor Kostal teaches Legal History and Torts. Professor Kostal's research interests are focused in the field of modern Anglo-American legal history. He is the author of Law and English Railway Capitalism 1825-1875 (Oxford University Press, 1994), A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law (Oxford University Press, 2005), and a number of published writings in Legal History and Tort Law.
In 2019, Harvard University Press published Professor Kostal's monograph book, Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan, awarded the 2020 Phillip Reid Prize of the American Society for Legal History.
Research Highlights
Historical Monographs
Laying Down the Law: The American Legal Revolutions in Occupied Germany and Japan, Harvard University Press, 2019. (480 pp). {Winner, 2022 Phillip Reid Prize}
A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law, Revised Paperback Edition, Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 2008. (529 pp.).
A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law, Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 2005. {Honourable Mention, Wallace K. Ferguson Prize}.
Law and English Railway Capitalism, 1825-1875, Revised Paperback Edition, Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 1997. (420 pp.)
Law and English Railway Capitalism, 1825-1875, Oxford University Press (Clarendon), 1994. (420 pp.) {Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize}
Historical Publications: Refereed Articles
with Erika Chamberlain, “The Reinvention of Canadian Tort Law, 1945-1995: Jordan House as Case Study,” University of Toronto Law Journal, forthcoming, 2023.
“The Alchemy of Occupation: Karl Loewenstein and the Legal Reconstruction of Nazi Germany,” Law and History Review 29:1 (2011) 1-52.
“A Jurisprudence of Power: Martial Law and the Ceylon Controversy of 1848-51”, Journal of Commonwealth and Imperial Studies 28:1 (2000) 1-34.
