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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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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
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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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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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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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Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948
Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker
In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative ...
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Cases, Materials and Notes on Partnerships and Canadian Business Corporations, 4th Edition
Doug Harris, Ron Daniels, Ed Iacobucci, Ian Lee, Jeff MacIntosh, Poonam Puri, and Jacob S. Ziegel
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The Law of Restitution [Looseleaf Edition]
Peter D. Maddaugh and John D. McCamus
Restitutionary law offers recovery for unjust enrichment in a broad range of legal settings. With a complete explanation of the leading Canadian and Commonwealth authorities, The Law of Restitution, Looseleaf Edition covers a wide spectrum of topics, including: Canadian reception ...
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