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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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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Evidence : Principles and Problems

Lisa Dufraimont
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.
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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