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Sociology of Law
Av Norman K. Denzin, Georges Gurvitch
Häftad, 2001
761 kr
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Georges Gurvitch occupies an interesting position in the development of the sociology of law. In the period immediately preceding its quantitative expansion, he produced an explicitly conceived systematic theoretical intervention. What is particularly significant about Gurvitch's Sociology of Law …
Critique of the Legal Order
Crime Control in Capitalist Society
Av Richard Quinney, Randall G. Shelden
Häftad, 2001
693 kr
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Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides a critical look at the legal order in capitalist society. Using a traditional Marxist perspective, he argues that the legal order is not intended to …
Regulating Lives
Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law
Av Robert Menzies, Dorothy E. Chunn
Häftad, 2003
427 kr
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This book examines Canadian experiences of social control, moralregulation, and governmentality during the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. Informed by the wealth of theoretical andhistorical writings that have recently emerged on these subjects, thecontributors explore diverse state, …
Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities
Inbunden, 2005
1094 kr
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Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restrictedthemselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law inSpanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head andinvestigates what happens when the voices of each discipline areinvited to speak to each other. Susan …
Compulsory Compassion
A Critique of Restorative Justice
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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Often touted as the humane and politically progressive alternative to the rigid philosophy of retributive punishment that underpins many of the world's judicial systems, restorative justice aspires to a theoretical and practical reconciliation of the values of love and compassion with justice and …
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
Inbunden, 2004
1094 kr
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Since 1980, the Canadian women's movement has been an active participant in constitutional politics and Charter litigation. This book, through its focus on the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), presents a compelling examination of how Canadian feminists became key actors in developing …
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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Since 1980, the Canadian women's movement has been an active participant in constitutional politics and Charter litigation. This book, through its focus on the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), presents a compelling examination of how Canadian feminists became key actors in developing …
Taxing Choices
The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
Inbunden, 2002
1094 kr
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Winner, 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social SciencesIn the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challenge against the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costs were a …
Taxing Choices
The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
Häftad, 2003
682 kr
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Winner, 2003-2004 Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English-Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social SciencesIn the early 1990s, lawyer Beth Symes brought an equality challenge against the Canadian Income Tax Act, arguing that her childcare costs were a …
Collective Insecurity
The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order
Inbunden, 2003
1224 kr
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Africa's notorious civil wars and seemingly endless conflicts constitute one of the most intractable threats to global peace and security in the post-Cold War era. This book provides both a superb analysis of the historical dysfunction of the post-colonial African state generally and, more …
Collective Insecurity
The Liberian Crisis, Unilateralism, and Global Order
Häftad, 2004
427 kr
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Africa's notorious civil wars and seemingly endless conflicts constitute one of the most intractable threats to global peace and security in the post-Cold War era. This book provides both a superb analysis of the historical dysfunction of the post-colonial African state generally and, more …
Unnatural Law
Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy
Häftad, 2003
360 kr
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While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada’s record, …
Despotic Dominion
Property Rights in British Settler Societies
Av John P.S. McLaren, A.R. Buck m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
427 kr
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In the late 18th century, the English jurist William Blackstone famously described property as "that sole and despotic dominion." What Blackstone meant was that property was an "absolute right, inherent in every Englishman . . . which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all …
Gay Male Pornography
An Issue of Sex Discrimination
Inbunden, 2004
1094 kr
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The 2000 case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Customs Canada provided Canada’s highest court with its first opportunity to consider whether the analysis set out in R. v. Butler – in which the Supreme Court identified pornography as an issue of sex discrimination – applies to pornography …
Gay Male Pornography
An Issue of Sex Discrimination
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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The 2000 case of Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Customs Canada provided Canada's highest court with its first opportunity to consider whether the analysis set out in R. v. Butler – in which the Supreme Court identified pornography as an issue of sex discrimination – applies to pornography …
Tournament of Appeals
Granting Judicial Review in Canada
Inbunden, 2004
1094 kr
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Canada's Supreme Court decides cases with far-reaching effects on Canadian politics and public policies. When the Supreme Court sets cases on its agenda, it exercises nearly unrestrained discretion and considerable public authority. But how does the Court choose these cases in the first …
Tournament of Appeals
Granting Judicial Review in Canada
Häftad, 2005
382 kr
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Canada's Supreme Court decides cases with far-reaching effects on Canadian politics and public policies. When the Supreme Court sets cases on its agenda, it exercises nearly unrestrained discretion and considerable public authority. But how does the Court choose these cases in the first …
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation
Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Häftad, 2005
384 kr
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Refugees are on the move around the globe. Prosperous nations are rapidly adjusting their laws to crack down on the so-called "undeserving." Australia and Canada have each sought international reputations as humanitarian do-gooders, especially in the area of refugee admissions. Humanitarianism, …
From UI to EI
Waging War on the Welfare State
Inbunden, 2004
1189 kr
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Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada's system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection of income to the unemployed. Joblessness was viewed as a social problem and the jobless as its unfortunate victims. If governments could not create …
First Nations Sacred Sites in Canada's Courts
Inbunden, 2005
1094 kr
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The sacred sites of indigenous peoples are under increasing threat worldwide as a result of state appropriation of control over ancestral territories, coupled with insatiable demands on lands, waters, and natural resources. Yet because they spiritually anchor indigenous peoples' relationship with …
First Nations Sacred Sites in Canada's Courts
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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The sacred sites of indigenous peoples are under increasing threat worldwide as a result of state appropriation of control over ancestral territories, coupled with insatiable demands on lands, waters, and natural resources. Yet because they spiritually anchor indigenous peoples' relationship with …
Securing Borders
Detention and Deportation in Canada
Av Anna Pratt
Inbunden, 2005
1094 kr
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Detention and deportation are the two most extreme sanctions of an "immigration penality" that polices noncitizens, identifies those deemed dangerous, diseased, deceitful, or destitute, and refuses them entry or casts them out. They play a key role in regulating national borders, citizens, and …
Defending Rights in Russia
Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reform in the Post-Soviet Era
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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Lawyers often play pivotal roles in building democracies. PamelaJordan's engaging study of the Russian bar (advokatura) providesa richly textured portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse,practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-definedroles as contributors to legal reform and …
Good Government? Good Citizens?
Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Changing Canada
Av W.A. Bogart
Inbunden, 2005
1094 kr
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Good Government? Good Citizens? explores the evolving concept of the citizen in Canada at the beginning of this century. Three forces are at work in reconstituting the citizen in this society: courts, politics, and markets. Many see these forces as intersecting and colliding in ways that are …
Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940
Av Louis A. Knafla, Jonathan Swainger
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940 examines the legal history of the north-west frontier, from the earliest years of European-Native contact in the seventeenth century to the mid-1900s. Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism, the book explores the …
Critical Disability Theory
Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law
Av Dianne Pothier, Richard Devlin
Häftad, 2006
408 kr
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People with disabilities in Canada inhabit a system of deep structural, economic, social, political, legal, and cultural inequality – a regime of dis-citizenship. Despite the widespread belief that Canada is a country of liberty, equality, and inclusiveness, many persons with disabilities …
Governing with the Charter
Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent
Inbunden, 2005
1094 kr
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Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, the question of judicial power and its relationship to parliamentary democracy has been an important one in Canadian politics. Some critics, suspicious of what they perceive as the "activism" of "unelected and …
Governing with the Charter
Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent
Häftad, 2006
382 kr
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Since the introduction of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, the question of judicial power and its relationship to parliamentary democracy has been an important one in Canadian politics. Some critics, suspicious of what they perceive as the "activism" of "unelected and …
Diversity and Equality
The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada
Häftad, 2007
387 kr
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The tension between diversity and equality is central to debates about multiculturalism, self-determination, identity, and pluralism. How, for example, can the claims of ethnic and religious groups be respected when they conflict with individual rights and liberal equality? Diversity and Equality …
Negotiating Responsibility
Law, Murder, and States of Mind
Inbunden, 2007
1094 kr
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The meaning of criminal responsibility emerged in early- to mid-twentieth-century Canadian capital murder cases through a complex synthesis of socio-cultural, medical, and legal processes. Kimberley White places the negotiable concept of responsibility at the centre of her interdisciplinary …
