Rande Kostal
Professor
Law
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Biography
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. LL.B. (Western University) 1981, M.A. (McMaster) 1983, Ph.D. (Oxford) 1989, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1984.
Research Interest
Modern Anglo-American legal history.
Publications
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Kostal RW. A jurisprudence of power: Martial law and the Ceylon controversy of 1848–51. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 2000 Jan 1;28(1):1-34.
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Kostal RW. Conservative Insurrection: Great Strikes and Deep Law in Cleveland, Ohio and London, Ontario, 1898-1899. Essays in the History of Canadian Law. 1999;8:289-334.
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Kostal RW. A jurisprudence of power: Victorian Empire and the rule of law. Oxford University Press on Demand; 2005.
