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Challenging Boardroom Homogeneity : Corporate Law, Governance and Diversity
Aaron A. Dhir
The lack of gender parity in the governance of business corporations has ignited a heated global debate, leading policymakers to wrestle with difficult questions that lie at the intersection of market activity and social identity politics. Drawing on semi-structured interviews ...
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Law Librarianship in Academic Libraries: Best Practices
Yemisi Dina
In the last two decades, advancement in technology has transformed every aspect of librarianship. Law Librarianship in Academic Law Libraries discusses issues and model practices in academic law libraries. This text will help librarians and library school students understand the ...
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Evidence: Principles and Problems
Lisa Dufraimont
This is the eleventh edition of Evidence: Principles and Problems, a leading casebook on Canadian evidence law. Combining text and excerpts from leading cases with commentary and thought-provoking problem scenarios, the work continues to be a comprehensive resource on the ...
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Materials on Canadian Income Tax, 15th edition
Tim Edgar, Martha O'Brien, and Arthur J. Cockfield
Materials on Canadian Income Tax has become the predominant teaching tool in Canadian law schools for the study of income tax. Students rely on its integrated approach to learning the Canadian income tax regime – including expert commentary, case analysis, ...
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Public Law: Cases, Commentary, and Analysis, Third Edition
Richard Haigh, Craig Forcese, Adam Dodek, Philip Bryden, Peter Carver, Mary Liston, and Constance Macintosh
Public Law: Cases, Commentary, and Analysis, 3rd Edition, is the only text of its kind devoted exclusively to public law in Canada. Using carefully selected case excerpts, this text demonstrates concepts, principles, and theory in a direct and accessible manner. ...
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Fighting Fair : Legal Ethics for an Adversarial Age
Allan C. Hutchinson
Along with used car dealers and telemarketers, lawyers are considered to be among the least trustworthy of all professionals. If lawyers want more respect, they will have to earn it by reframing their ethical responsibilities. In an original approach to ...
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Annual Annotated Indian Act and Aboriginal Constitutional Provisions
Shin Imai
The 2015 Annotated Indian Act and Aboriginal Constitutional Provisions provides you with up-to-date legislation, constitutional documents, case law, and annotations. Written by Shin Imai, an experienced aboriginal law practitioner and teacher, this book features the full text of the Indian ...
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Families and the Law: Cases and Commentary, Second Edition
Mary Jane Mossman, Natasha Bakht, Vanessa Gruben, and Karen Pearlston
Significantly revised and completely updated (to 31 March 2015), the second edition of Families and the Law continues to offer readers an in-depth discussion of issues in family law within a socio-legal context. It examines legal regulation of families and ...
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The Dignity of Law : The Legacy of Justice Louis LeBel
Dwight Newman and Malcolm Thorburn
Intellectually generous. Prolific. Warm and decent. These are just some of the phrases editors Dwight Newman and Malcolm Thorburn use to describe retired Supreme Court of Canada Justice Louis LeBel in the introduction to The Dignity of Law: The Legacy ...
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Canadian Income Tax Law, 5th Edition
Lisa Philipps, David G. Duff, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, and Geoffrey Loomer
Now in its fifth edition, this work provides an overview of the foundations of tax law and the critical cases which have shaped each component of the tax regime, uniquely combining the best features of both a textbook and casebook. ...
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Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials, 11th Edition
Kent Roach, Benjamin L. Berger, Emma Cunliffe, and James Stribopoulos
Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials, now in its eleventh edition, weaves commentary and case law together to provide contextual background for the legislation that governs both regulatory and criminal offences. The text also provides practical information on how ...
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Our Chemical Selves : Gender, Toxics, and Environmental Health
Dayna Scott
Everyday exposures to chemicals found in homes, schools, and workplaces are having devastating consequences on human health. These toxic exposures derive from common personal care products and cosmetics, household cleaners, pharmaceuticals, furniture, the food we eat, the water we drink, ...
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Canadian State Trials IV : Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939
Eric Tucker
This latest collection in our State Trials series, the fourth, looks at the legal issues raised by the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the 1930s and the Great Depression. Topics covered include enemy aliens, ...
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Sold Down the Yangtze : Canada's Lopsided Investment Deal with China
Gus Van Harten
In Sold Down the Yangtze, investment treaty expert Gus Van Harten offers a searing critique of Canada's 31-year investment deal with China, which could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars. The Harper Government finalized the controversial Canada-China Foreign Investment ...
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Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials, 7th Edition
Gus Van Harten, Gerald Heckman, David Mullan, and Janna Promislow
The seventh edition of Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials has been meticulously reorganized and updated to provide detailed commentary and a thorough review of recent case law in a resource that is engaging and accessible to students. Careful editing ...
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Trade-marks and Unfair Competition Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary, Second Edition
Bita Amani and Carys Craig
The legal protection afforded by statutory and common law to brands, logos, and "source-identifiers" in the marketplace is a significant and growing area of concern. Trade-marks are often among a business's most valuable assets, making trade-mark law a vital component ...
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Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, Ninth Edition
Stephanie Ben-Ishai and David R. Percy
Extensively revised and updated since its previous publication in 2004, Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, 9th Edition continues to be the teaching tool of choice among Canadian contracts professors. This book allows students to learn the law of contracts by firstly ...
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Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development and Transitional Justice
Ruth Margaret Buchanan and Peer Zumbansen
Law has become the vehicle by which countries in the 'developing world', including post-conflict states or states undergoing constitutional transformation, must steer the course of social and economic, legal and political change. Legal mechanisms, in particular, the instruments as well ...
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Recognition Versus Self-Determination: Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics
Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, and Andrée Boisselle
The political concept of recognition has introduced new ways of thinking about the relationship between minorities and justice in plural societies. But is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today? Contributors to this volume examine the successes and ...
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Civil Justice, Privatization, and Democracy
Trevor C. W. Farrow
Privatization is occurring throughout the public justice system, including courts, tribunals, and state-sanctioned private dispute resolution regimes. Driven by a widespread ethos of efficiency-based civil justice reform, privatization claims to decrease costs, increase speed, and improve access to the tools ...
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Language and Cultural Rights
Leslie Green
Part of a series examining philosophical, political, and legal concepts of rights and systems of rights articulation, interpretation, protection, and enforcement, this volume is dedicated to issues arising from the intersection of language and cultural rights.
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Cambridge Handbook of Institutional Investment and Fiduciary Duty
James P. Hawley, Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Keith L. Johnson, Joakim Sandberg, and Edward J. Waitzer
The Cambridge Handbook of Institutional Investment and Fiduciary Duty is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and future trends in the principles that govern institutional investors and fiduciaries. A wide range of contributors offer new perspectives on dynamics that ...
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Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955
Douglas Hay and Paul Craven
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach ...
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International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada
Hugh M. Kindred; Philip M. Saunders; Robert J, Currie; Jutta Brunnée; Ted L. McDorman; Ikechi Mgbeoji; Karin Mickelson; René Provost; Linda C. Reif; and Christopher S. Waters
International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 8th Edition emphasizes the experience and practice of international law from a Canadian perspective both domestically and in foreign relations. A publication of long-standing quality and distinguished reputation, this seminal text ...
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