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International Taxation in Canada: Principles and Practices, Third Edition
Jinyan Li, Arthur Cockfield, and J. Scott Wilkie
The first comprehensive book on Canadian international tax law, International Taxation in Canada – Principles and Practices was originally published in 2006. Now in its third edition, it has become the leading book on this topic in Canada and is ...
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Property Law: Cases and Commentary, 3rd Edition
Mary Jane Mossman and Philip Girard
Property Law: Cases and Commentary, 3rd Edition, explores traditional and contemporary issues surrounding the law of property in Canada. It addresses concepts such as possession, property interests in land and chattels, gifts, and family property. Authoritative commentary paired with carefully ...
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Class Actions in Canada : Cases, Notes, and Materials
Janet Walker and Garry D. Watson
Class actions, also known as mass torts, have become a vital, developing area of civil law. They offer redress in cases where the costs of litigation might overwhelm the damages to be recovered, particularly in jurisdictions where punitive damages are ...
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Transnational Organized Crime
Margaret Beare
This selection of influential articles traces our evolving understanding of transnational organized crime - paradigm shifts - from the 'alien conspiracy' focused research to the more nuanced focused scholarship on 'markets' and 'networks', culminating in a focus on 'enablers' of ...
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Unthinkable Thoughts: Academic Freedom and the One-State Model for Israel and Palestine
Susan G. Drummond
In June 2009, an international conference on models of statehood for Israel and Palestine was held at Toronto’s York University. The conference itself was uneventful; however, the lead-up roiled Canadian academia and society, provoking a controversy that raised major issues ...
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The Courts and Beyond: The Architecture of Justice in Transition
Trevor C. W. Farrow and Patrick Molinari
Collection of papers presented at the 2012 CIAJ annual conference held in Calgary, for judges, practitioners, academics and other professionals. The papers included in this collection each provide a useful perspective on various aspects of the renovation project that is ...
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Administrative Law in Context, 2nd Edition
Colleen M. Flood and Lorne Sossin
The second edition of the best-selling casebook Administrative Law in Context uses the same unique two-part format as the previous edition — a hardbound text supported by a website where both students and instructors can find full-text cases for each ...
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Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law [8th Edition]
Peter W. Hogg, Joanne E. Magee, and Jinyan Li
Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law is an introduction to the Canadian income tax law using clear, concise and non-technical language. It has been cited and quoted with approval in a number of tax cases decided by the Supreme Court ...
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Legal Research Handbook, 6th Edition
Douglass T. MacEllven, Neil A. Campbell, and John N. Davis
This highly respected practical handbook for Canadian legal researchers has now been thoroughly revised and updated since the previous edition published in 2003. The many dramatic developments in legal research over the past decade are reflected in this new edition, ...
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The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis
Moira McCarney, Ruth Kuras, Annette Demers, and Shelley M. Kierstead
The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis focuses on developing the required competencies emphasized by the Federation of Law Societies in legal research, writing, and analysis and using those skills in both law school and professional environments. The ...
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Constitutional Law, 4th Edition
Patrick J. Monahan and Byron Shaw
The fourth edition of Constitutional Law represents a significant update of the third edition, published in 2006. During this period, the Supreme Court of Canada has continued to develop the jurisprudence in all areas of constitutional law, particularly the Canadian ...
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Copyright: Cases and Commentary on the Canadian and International Law, Second Edition
Barry B. Sookman, Steven Mason, and Carys Craig
Copyright law grants exclusive rights for limited terms to the authors of musical, literary, dramatic and artistic works. With the shift towards an information economy and the rapid development of digital technologies, copyright is fast becoming one of the most ...
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Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment
Katherine V. W. Stone and Harry W. Arthurs
During the middle third of the 20th century, workers in most industrialized countries secured a substantial measure of job security, whether through legislation, contract or social practice. This “standard employment contract,” as it was known, became the foundation of an ...
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Criminal Procedure in Canada : Student Edition
James Stribopoulos
This long-awaited guide explains the rules of criminal procedure in a clear, concise manner - ideal for prosecutors, defence lawyers, law students and judges. Rather than organizing the subject around particular statutory or constitutional provisions, the authors have chosen a ...
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Sovereign Choices and Sovereign Constraints: Judicial Restraint in Investment Treaty Arbitration
Gus Van Harten
Provides an innovative analysis to show why international arbitration should be restrained by the same mediating factors limiting domestic judicial review Establishes an in-depth empirical assessment of publicly-available awards to investigate the complex reality of how arbitrators have exercised their ...
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Encyclopedia of Transnational Crime and Justice
Margaret E. Beare
Transnational crimes involve border crossings as an integral part of the criminal activity. They also include crimes that take place in one country with consequences that significantly affect other countries. Examples include human trafficking, smuggling (arms, drugs, currency), sex slavery, ...
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Unsettled Legacy: Thirty Years of Criminal Justice under the Charter
Benjamin L. Berger and James Stribopoulos
After thirty years, what effect has the Charter had on the justness of the Canadian criminal justice system? This thought-provoking collection of essays by a group of leading criminal law scholars explores that very question, critically examining the ways in ...
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Reading Modern Law: Critical Methodologies and Sovereign Formations
Ruth Margaret Buchanan, Stewart J. Motha, and Sundhya Pahuja
Reading Modern Law identifies and elaborates upon key critical methodologies for reading and writing about law in modernity. The force of law rests on determinate and localizable authorizations, as well as an expansive capacity to encompass what has not been ...
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Canadian Income Tax Law, 4th Edition
David G. Duff, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, Geoffrey Loomer, and Lisa Philipps
Now in its fourth 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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Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case
Fay Faraday, Judy Fudge, and Eric Tucker
On 29 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Attorney General of Ontario v Fraser, which dealt with the scope of constitutional protection of collective bargaining. The case involved a constitutional challenge to an Ontario ...
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Hunger, Horses and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
Scholars often accept without question that Canada's Indian Act (1876) criminalized First Nations. In this illuminating book, Shelley Gavigan argues that the notion of criminalization captures neither the complexities of Aboriginal participation in the courts nor the significance of the ...
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Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization
Günther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, and Peer Zumbansen
Taking “extraterritoriality,” the traditional touchstone for the state-centered allocation of transnational legal authority, as its conceptual starting point the book traces the evolution of transnational legal authority in the course of globalization. It examines various representative transnational legal scenarios, covering ...
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Laughing at the Gods: Great Judges and How They Made the Common Law
Allan C. Hutchinson
Any effort to understand how law works has to take seriously its main players – judges. Like any performance, judging should be evaluated by reference to those who are its best exponents. Not surprisingly, the debate about what makes a ...
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