By the Court

Peter McCormick

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a "By the Court" format. This transfor... Lees meer

First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. W... Lees meer

From Ui to Ei

Georges Campeau

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Established in 1940 in response to the Great Depression, the original goal of Canada's system of unemployment insurance was to ensure the protection o... Lees meer

Aboriginal Justice and the Charter

David Milward

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Aboriginal Justice and the Charter examines and seeks to resolve the tension between Aboriginal approaches to justice and the Canadian Charter of Righ... Lees meer

Truth and Conviction

L Jane McMillan

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Now in paperback, the story of how Donald Marshall Jr.'s life-long battle against injustice revitalized Indigenous law in Canada. The name "Donald Mar... Lees meer

Paths to the Bench

Dale Brawn

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Using the judiciary of Manitoba as a model, Paths to the Bench examines the political nature of Canada's judicial appointment process and suggests tha... Lees meer

Colonial Proximities

Renisa Mawani

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Encounters among Aboriginal peoples, European colonists, Chinese migrants, and mixed-race populations generated a range of racial anxieties that under... Lees meer

First Nations Sacred Sites in Canada's Courts

Michael Lee Ross

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• The sacred sites of indigenous peoples are under increasing threat worldwide as a result of state appropriation of control over ancestral territories,... Lees meer

Troubling Sex

Elaine Craig

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical frameworks. Queer theorists typica... Lees meer

Multicultural Nationalism

Gerald Kernerman

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Generations of intellectuals have debated Canada's national question. Rather than join the debate, Multicultural Nationalism challenges its logic. The... Lees meer

First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. W... Lees meer

Gender in the Legal Profession

Joan Brockman

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• The history of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere is one of the exclusion of women, Aboriginals, ethnic and racial minorities, and those fro... Lees meer

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

Landing Native Fisheries

Douglas C Harris

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• Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program o... Lees meer

Despotic Dominion

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• Despotic Dominion brings together the work of scholars whose study of the evolution of property law in the colonies recognizes the value in locating p... Lees meer

Defending Battered Women on Trial

Elizabeth A Sheehy

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing... Lees meer

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distingu... Lees meer

Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court

Christopher P Manfredi

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Since 1980, the Canadian women's movement has been an active participant in constitutional politics and Charter litigation. This book, through its foc... Lees meer

Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Delgamuukw. Mabo. Ngati Apa. Recent cases have created a framework for litigating Aboriginal title in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The distingu... 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

Courts and Federalism

Gerald Baier

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Courts and Federalism examines recent developments in the judicial review of federalism in the United States, Australia, and Canada. Through detailed ... Lees meer

Westward Bound

Lesley Erickson

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Westward Bound debunks the myth of Canada's peaceful West and the masculine conceptions of law and violence upon which it rests by shifting the focus ... Lees meer

Hunger, Horses, and Government Men

Shelley A M Gavigan

• Hardcover | Engels | Law and Society
• Scholars often accept without question that the Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. Drawing on court files, police and penitentiary records,... Lees meer

The Strategic Constitution

Irvin Studin

• Paperback | Engels | Law and Society
• Historically, Canada's Constitution has been principally viewed as a federal framework or a rights bulwark. This book offers a new interpretation. The... Lees meer