Logical Concepts in Legal Positivism

Juliele Maria Sievers

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society | nr. 4
• The present work offers an original approach on the legal notions developed by Hans Kelsen in his attempts towards a "pure" theory of Law, based on a ... Lees meer

Reconciling Truths

Kim Stanton

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• A forthright analysis of the factors that limit the effectiveness of public inquiries. Reconciling Truths traces the contested goals and legacies of p... Lees meer

Conflict in Caledonia

Laura DeVries

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• In February 2006, First Nations protesters blocked workers from entering a housing development in southern Ontario. The protest highlighted the issue ... Lees meer

Power Played

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• A whistle-blowing account of the harm, violence, and exploitation embedded in contemporary sports. On the one hand, sports are a tool for community bu... Lees meer

Feminized Justice

Amanda Glasbeek

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• In 1913, Toronto launched Canada's first woman's police court. The court was run by and for women, but was it a great achievement? This multifaceted p... Lees meer

Unjust by Design

Ron Ellis

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Canadian legislatures regularly assign what are truly court functions to non-court, government tribunals. These executive branch "judicial" tribunals ... Lees meer

Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here

Azar Masoumi

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Analyzing the contradictions within Canada's refugee system. State-controlled refugee protection in Canada has gone through paradoxical developments i... Lees meer

Sociology of Law

Georges Gurvitch

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Georges Gurvitch occupies an interesting position in the development of the sociology of law. In the period immediately preceding its quantitative exp... Lees meer

"Don't Be So Gay!"

Donn Short

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Recent cases of teen suicide linked with homophobic bullying have thrust the issue of school safety into the national spotlight. In "Don't Be So Gay!"... Lees meer

Seeking the Court's Advice

Kate Puddister

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Can Parliament legalize same-sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearms registry?... Lees meer

The Laws and the Land

Daniel Rück

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• A history of Canada's conquest of the Indigenous community of Kahnawà ke. Canadian settlers expropriated Indigenous lands through the combined might o... Lees meer

Banning Transgender Conversion Practices

Florence Ashley

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• A powerful consideration of the legal regulation of conversion therapy. Survivors of conversion practices--interventions meant to stop gender transiti... Lees meer

Critique of the Legal Order

Richard Quinney, Randall G Shelden

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides... Lees meer

Constraining the Court

James B Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• An investigation into what happens when the Supreme Court of Canada declares a statute unconstitutional. When the Supreme Court of Canada makes a deci... Lees meer

Critique of Legal Order

Richard Quinney, Randall G Shelden

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Originally published thirty years ago, Critique of the Legal Order remains highly relevant for the twenty-first century. Here Richard Quinney provides... Lees meer

Media Laws Across the World

Junhao Hong, Tuo-Yu Su

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Hong and Su compare the evolution of media laws across the world, focusing on representative countries in North America, Western Europe and Asia and a... Lees meer

Corporate Crime

Peter Yeager

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Corporate Crime , originally published in 1980, is the first and still the only comprehensive study of corporate law violations by our largest corpora... Lees meer

The Sociology of Law

A Javier Trevino

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• The purpose of this book is to introduce the sociology of law by providing a coherent organization to the general body of literature in that field. As... Lees meer

Custom

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• In Custom, Ferdinand Tonnies illustrates the relationship of custom to various aspects of culture, such as religion, gender, and family. Tonnies argue... Lees meer

Power Played

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• A whistle-blowing account of the harm, violence, and exploitation embedded in contemporary sports. On the one hand, sports are a tool for community bu... Lees meer

Women, Film, and Law

Suzanne Bouclin

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Now in paperback, an exploration of movies and TV shows featuring women on the wrong side of the law. Films and shows about incarcerated women stir co... Lees meer

The New Lawyer

Julie MacFarlane

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Today's justice system and the legal profession have rendered the "lawyer-warrior" notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than pr... Lees meer

Reconciling Truths

Kim Stanton

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• A forthright analysis of the factors that limit the effectiveness of public inquiries. Reconciling Truths traces the contested goals and legacies of p... Lees meer

Equality Deferred

Dominique Clément

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing... Lees meer