Books

This collection comprises descriptions of and references to books written or co-authored by members of the Osgoode faculty. Access to the full digital text is provided if available and licensed for access by the public. In many cases, the digital text will be accessible only by members of the York University community.

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If Plato Had Played Football: Playing a Different Game of Philosophy and Life

Allan C. Hutchinson

This book takes football and its surrounding myths and milieus as a legitimate occasion for reflections on life and living. It taps into the enormous energy and emotions that are expended on football throughout the world. Football is a truly ...
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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility [2nd Edition]

Allan C. Hutchinson

The importance of ethical behaviour and professional responsibility has long been something lawyers have insisted is a hallmark of their chosen profession. However, many lawyers would argue that a discussion of these matters is necessary only when considering isolated and ...
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International Taxation in Canada: Principles and Practices [1st Edition]

Jinyan Li, J. Scott Wilkie, and Arthur J. Cockfield
Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge

Ikechi Mgbeoji

Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of ...
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Constitutional Law, Third Edition

Patrick J. Monahan
The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions

Mary Jane Mossman

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive ...
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Legitimizing Human Rights NGOs: Lessons from Nigeria

Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Environmental Law for Sustainability : A Reader

Benjamin J. Richardson and Stepan Wood

This volume of new essays presents critical new scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. Aimed at both students and scholars in law ...
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Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 2nd Edition

Hamish Stewart, Marilyn L. Pilkington, Renalda Murphy, Steven Penney, and James Stribopoulos

In most law school courses, the facts of the cases studied are taken as a given: the facts of they are presented as found by a trial court or tribunal or as understood by an appellate court. The law of ...
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Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response

Eric Tucker

Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much public attention beyond, perhaps, a small paragraph in the local newspaper. Instead, these ...
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The Annual of German & European Law, Vols. 2 & 3

Peer Zumbansen

German law has been of long-standing interest and increasing relevance around the world, but access for researchers and practitioners very frequently was limited by the necessity of German language proficiency. Offering English-language access to these fields, the Annual of German ...
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Access to Justice for a New Century: The Way Forward

Julia H. Bass, W. A. Bogart, and Frederick H. Zemans

This book is a timely addition to the literature on access to justice. The book's essays address all aspects of the topic, including differing views on the meaning of access to justice; ways to improve access to legal services; litigation ...
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Securities Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary, 1st Edition

Mary G. Condon, Anita I. Anand, and Janis P. Sarra
Self-employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions

Cynthia Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko

Over a million self-employed Canadians work every day but many of them not entitled to the basic labour protections and rights such as minimum wages, maternity and parental leaves and benefits, pay equity, a safe and healthy working environment, and ...
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Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate Over Private Health Insurance in Canada

Colleen M. Flood, Kent Roach, and Lorne Sossin

Historically, the Supreme Court of Canada has avoided direct intervention in health care policy-making. This posture changed dramatically with the release of the Chaoulli decision in June 2005. In a narrow four-to-three decision, the Supreme Court struck down Quebec laws ...
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Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law [5th Edition]

Peter W. Hogg, Joanne E. Magee, and Jinyan Li
Evolution and the Common Law

Allan C. Hutchinson

This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the ...
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The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance for a Democratic Society

Allan C. Hutchinson

A new corporate scandal seems to break every day. And not just in America: Canada has its Nortel, Bre-X, Livent, and Hollinger. In this book, Allan Hutchinson insists that a lasting solution to these ills requires more than a rooting ...
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Come l'America la fa franca con la giustizia internazionale: Guerre illegali, danni collaterali e crimini contro l'uminata

Michael Mandel

L'America ha tentato di giustificare la guerra contro l'Iraq facendo appello a un'autorizzazione del Consiglio di Sicurezza delle Nazioni Unite. A proposito dell'Afghanistan, aveva parlato di "autodifesa", mentre per il Kosovo di "intervento umanitario". Stando alle norme del Diritto internazionale, ...
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Pax Pentagon : wie die USA der Welt den Krieg als Frieden verkaufen

Michael Mandel

Wie die USA der Welt den Krieg als Frieden verkaufen. Michael Mandel: Pax Pentagon. Der Irakkrieg im Jahr 2003 war der dritte illegale Krieg der Vereinigten Staaten in nur vier Jahren, wobei der Krieg gegen Saddam besonders blutig und eklatant ...
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The Law of Contracts [1st Edition]

John D. McCamus
Cases and Materials on Contracts, Third Edition

John D. McCamus, Stephen M. Waddams, M. A. Weldron, Jason Neyers, and Michael J. Trebilcock

Cases and Materials on Contracts offers a comprehensive foundation for the development of a full understanding of Canadian contract law. Recent cases and materials, drawn from Canadian, Commonwealth, and American sources, have been carefully selected and edited to deliver a ...
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Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges

Margrit Shildrick and Roxanne Mykitiuk

The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with ...
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Intellectual Property Rights

David Vaver

Countries with innovative local industries almost invariably have laws to foster innovation by regulating the copying of inventions, identifying symbols and creative expressions. These laws encompass four separate and distinct types of intangible property – patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade ...
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Castel and Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws, 6th Edition

Janet Walker

Through five successful editions, LexisNexis® Butterworths Castel & Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws has provided a scholarly yet practical analysis of the vast and continuously growing body of common law, legislation and treaties and conventions that govern private international law ...
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