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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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  Evidence : Principles and Problems

  Lisa Dufraimont

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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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  The Law Workbook: Developing Skills for Legal Research and Writing [2nd Edition]

  Shelley M. Kierstead, Sherifa Elkhadem, and Suzanne Gordon

  The new edition of The Law Workbook includes exercises that show students how to read, research, and analyze problems like a lawyer. Authors Shelley Kierstead, Suzanne Gordon, and Sherifa Elkhadem have framed the exercises to focus students' attention on the ...
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  Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Movements

  Randy K. Lippert and Sean Rehaag

  Sanctuary Practices in International Perspectives examines the diverse, complex, and mutating practice of providing sanctuary to asylum-seekers. The ancient tradition of church sanctuary underwent a revival in the late 1970s. Immigrants living without legal status and their supporters, first in ...
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  Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy

  Meg Luxton and Mary Jane Mossman

  How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Emerging from the lecture series “Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy,” held at York University in 2009, Reconsidering Knowledge examines current ideas about feminism in relation to knowledge, education and society, ...
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  The Law of Contracts, Second Edition

  John D. McCamus

  The Law of Contracts, second edition, is a thorough revision of this authoritative text in Irwin Law’s Essentials of Canadian Law series. It includes discussion of recent jurisprudential developments in variety of topics including: The new doctrine in Tercon Contractors ...
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  Families and the Law: Cases and Commentary, First Captus Edition

  Mary Jane Mossman

  Families and the Law is significantly revised and completely updated to March 31, 2012. Like its earlier edition, the casebook examines topics in family law in context, using a variety of interdisciplinary and comparative materials to explore and critique developments ...
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  Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context

  James Muir, Eric Tucker, and Bruce Ziff

  Property on Trial is a collection of 14 studies of Canadian property law disputes — some well-known, some more obscure — that have helped to shape the contours of the principles and rules of property law over 150 years. These ...
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  Local Climate Change Law: Environmental Regulation in Cities and Other Localities

  Benjamin J. Richardson

  Local Climate Change Law examines the role of local government, especially within cities, in addressing climate change through legal, policy, planning and other tools. This timely study offers a multi-jurisdictional perspective, featuring international contributors who examine both theoretical and practical ...
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  Dynamic Negotiations: Teacher Labour Relations in Canadian Elementary and Secondary Education

  Sara Slinn and Arthur Sweetman

  Labour relations in the public elementary and secondary school system is a vital area of Canadian public policy with important direct and indirect effects on society. However, at many times and in many jurisdictions, teacher bargaining has been regarded as ...
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  Business Organizations: Cases, Problems, and Case Studies, 3rd Edition

  Gordon Smith

  This next generation casebook reflects changes in the structure of business enterprise, incorporates more real-world materials, and provides a wealth of enriching materials on the Web for professors who want wider and deeper coverage of specific topics.

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  Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada, Second Edition

  Lorne Sossin

  This book is an innovative work on the scope of judicial decision-making in Canada. Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada, 2nd Edition explores the restrictions on which matters courts may decide and which are moot, hypothetical, ...
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  Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law

  François Tanguay-Renaud and James Stribopoulos

  In the last two decades, the philosophy of criminal law has undergone a vibrant revival in Canada. The adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has given the Supreme Court of Canada unprecedented latitude to engage with principles of ...
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  Middle Income Access to Justice

  Michael J. Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan, and Lorne Sossin

  Though most conceptions of the rule of law assume equality before the law – and hence equal access to the justice system – this basic right is not being met for many low and middle income Canadians. This book focuses ...
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  Trade-marks and Unfair Competition Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary

  Bita Amani and Carys Craig

  This text offers a thorough and accessible survey of the Canadian law of trade-marks and unfair competition. The legal protection afforded by statutory and common law to brands, logos, and "source-identifiers" in the marketplace is a significant and growing area ...
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  Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making

  Kim Brooks, Åsa Gunnarsson, Lisa C. Philipps, and Maria Wersig

  This volume takes a critical look at the gender of tax policy around the world. Contributors based in eight different countries examine the profound effects that gender norms and practices have had in shaping tax law and policy, and how ...
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  Copyright, Communication and Culture: Towards a Relational Theory of Copyright Law

  Carys Craig

  In this provocative book, Carys Craig challenges the assumptions of possessive individualism embedded in modern day copyright law, arguing that the dominant conception of copyright as private property fails to adequately reflect the realities of cultural creativity. Employing both theoretical ...
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  Public Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary, 2nd Edition

  Neil Craik, Craig Forcese, Philip Bryden, Peter Carver, Richard Haigh, Ed Ratushny, and Ruth Sullivan

  Public Law: Cases, Materials, and Commentary, 2nd Edition was designed to meet the core needs of first-year public law and legislation courses across the Canada. Using carefully selected case excerpts, it demonstrates concepts, principles, and theory to students in a ...
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  The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages: A Legal History

  Benjamin Geva

  Examining the legal history of the order to pay money initiating a funds transfer, the author tracks basic principles of modern law to those that governed the payment order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Exploring the legal nature of ...
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  Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England [Revised Edition]

  Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E. P. Thompson, and Cal Winslow

  In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In ...
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