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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Hart, Fuller, and Everything After: The Politics of Legal Theory

Allan C. Hutchinson

More has been said about the Hart-Fuller debate than can be considered healthy or productive even within the precious world of jurisprudential scholarship – too much philosophising about how law has revelled in its own abstractness and narrowness. But the ...
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The Law of Restitution, 2023 Student Edition

Peter D. Maddaugh and John D. Mccamus

"This student edition of the looseleaf service entitled The Law of Restitution, by Peter D. Maddaugh, Q.C. and John D. McCamus, has been created specifically for your course. The sections included in this student edition are reproduced from the November ...
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Quiet Rebels: A History of Ontario Women Lawyers

Mary Jane Mossman

""It's a girl!" As the Ontario press announced, Canada's first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897.Quiet Rebels explores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers up to 1957, and how their experiences continue to ...
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Part-Time for All: A Care Manifesto

Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Malleson

Part-Time for All offers solutions to four pressing problems: inequality for care-givers; family stress from demands of work and care; chronic time scarcity; and policy makers who are ignorant of care and care-givers with little access to policy making—the care/policy ...
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Rethinking Investment Law: Perspectives and Prospects

David Schneiderman and Gus Van Harten

The rules and enforcement mechanisms of investment law and arbitration reach deep into the regulatory and policy space of host states; tribunals have the ability to second-guess all variety of state measures, and in doing so they have displayed a ...
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Escape to Ponti

Brian Slattery and Antonio Javier Caparo

"Fourteen--year--old Bec learned a lesson that day. Be careful whom you rob. A slave on the run from his vicious master, Bec is desperate for money. But when he mugs Tien Nu, he gets more than he bargained for. Tien ...
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Cases and Materials on Contracts, 7th ed.

Stephen Waddams, Jassmine Girgis, John D. McCamus, Jason Neyers, and Bruce MacDougall

Cases and Materials on Contracts is a current and comprehensive collection of primary materials and commentaries covering all aspects of contract law in Canada. It examines key principles such as offer and acceptance, written versus oral contracts, what constitutes breach ...
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Your Boss Is an Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence, Platform Work and Labour

Antonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano

What effect do robots, algorithms, and online platforms have on the world of work? Using case studies and examples from across the EU, the UK, and the US, this book provides a compass to navigate this technological transformation as well ...
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All Is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay

All Is Well attempts to answer one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is the relationship between modern states and the disasters they claim to manage? Disasters are commonly understood as exceptional occurrences that ruin societies and ...
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Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, 11th ed.

Stephanie Ben-Ishai and David Percy

The Contracts casebook of choice in Canada for over 40 years, this eleventh edition consists of a critical survey of important cases and commentary in contract law, reflecting a period of intense doctrinal development by the Supreme Court of Canada. ...
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Canada's Cannabis Act : Annotation & Commentary

Russell Bennett and Alan Young

"This text identifies the relevant case law and underlying legislation used to draft theCannabis Act, helping readers analyze the rules and limits of theActand the Regulations. ... For ease of navigation, this text follows the 15 Parts of theCannabis Act. ...
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A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society

Valerio De Stefano, Ilda Durri, Charalampos Stylogiannis, and Mathias Wouters

"Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the gig economy from both a labour and employment perspective, this Research Agenda goes beyond the question of the employment status of platform workers. It investigates how the gig economy is changing the way ...
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Cryptocurrencies and the Regulatory Challenge

Allan C. Hutchinson

"As a social process that places great stock in its stability and predictability, law does not deal easily or well with change. In a modern world that is in a constant and rapid state of flux, law is being placed ...
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Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law, 10th ed.

Jinyan Li, Joanne Magee, and J. Scott Wilkie

"Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law, 10th Edition elucidates Canadian income tax law in simple, concise, and non-technical language. The book encourages us to think deeply and critically about the important role of income tax in Canadian society. It emphasizes ...
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Canadian Constitutional Law, Sixth Edition

Carissima Mathen; Patrick Macklem; Richard Albert; Joel Bakan; John Borrows; Sujit Choudhry; Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens; Noura Karazivan; Jennifer Koshan; Jean Leclair; Ian Lee; Vanessa MacDonnell; Richard Moon; Peter Oliver; RCB Risk, University of Toronto; Kent Roach; Bruce Ryder; David Schneiderman; Hamish Stewart; Jonnette Watson Hamilton; and Lorraine Weinrib

"In addition to providing a comprehensive introduction to Canadian constitutional law, leading cases, and insightful commentary and discussion, Canadian Constitutional Law, 6e also looks to provide new insight into the book with the addition of new authors, a fresh perspective ...
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A History of Law in Canada, Volume Two: Law for the New Dominion 1867–1914

Jim Phillips, Philip Girard, and R. Blake Brown

This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada. The period covered in this volume witnessed both continuity and change in the relationships among law, society, Indigenous peoples, and ...
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State Trials V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990

Barry Wright, Susan Binnie, and Eric Tucker

"The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of1939to1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its immediate ...
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Research Handbook on Law and Emotions

Susan A. Bandes, Jody Lynee Madeira, Kathryn D. Temple, and Emily Kidd White

This illuminating Research Handbook analyses the role that emotions play and ought to play in legal reasoning and practice, rejecting the simplistic distinction between reason and emotion.International expert contributors take multidisciplinary approaches, drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, literary theory, psychology, history, ...
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Dangerous Opportunities : The Future of Financial Institutions, Housing Policy, and Governance

Stephanie Ben-Ishai

The 2017 Home Capital saga represents the shortcomings of a financial system challenged by distinct, siloed regulatory frameworks that fail to communicate with each other. Home Capital is a publicly traded company that acts as a lender through the Home ...
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Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law

Giuseppina D'Agostino, Aviv Gaon, and Carole Piovesan

Leading Legal Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and a Toolkit for Lawyers and the Law is designed to challenge lawyers with the practical implications that emerging technologies will have on delivering legal services and thinking about legal issues to navigate their digital ...
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International Negotiable Instruments

Benjamin Geva and Sagi Peari

"For centuries, bills of exchange, cheques, and promissory notes ('negotiable instruments') have played a vital role in the smooth operation of domestic and international commerce. The payment mechanisms have been subject to rapid technological progress and law has needed to ...
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Democracy and Constitutions: Putting Citizens First

Allan C. Hutchinson

As things stand, a commitment to weak democracy and strong constitutionalism ensures that a range of elite groups, actors, and institutions – political, economic, intellectual, and legal – hold considerable sway over constitutional matters, leaving less room for the participation ...
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Like Confessing a Murder: Darwin, Religion and the Oxford

Allan C. Hutchinson

At the end of June 1860, the great and good of Britain's intellectual establishment gathered in Oxford for the annual jamboree of the Association for the Advancement of Science. Only six months after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the ...
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Oosterhoff on Wills, 9th Edition

Albert H. Oosterhoff, David Freeman, Mitchell McInnes, and Adam Parachin

Authored by a team of distinguished academics, Oosterhoff on Wills provides a complete primer on all aspects of the law, incorporating text and commentary with concisely edited case extracts to elucidate and explore every aspect and phase of wills law. ...
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Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials, 9th Edition

Janet Walker, Erik S. Knutsen, Gerard J. Kennedy, and Catherine Piché

Now in its ninth edition, Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials remains the leading casebook on civil procedure in Canada. This edition continues its track record of providing a thorough overview of civil litigation, helping law students, law clerks, and ...
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