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Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 8th ed.
The Labour Law Casebook Group and Sara Slinn
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Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks, Second Edition
David Vaver
Since the publication of the first edition in 1997, David Vaver’s Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-Marks has become one of the most important treatises on the subject in Canada. It has been relied upon by scholars, practitioners, policy analysts ...
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The Embedded Firm: Corporate Governance, Labor, and Finance Capitalism
Cynthia A. Williams and Peer Zumbansen
The globalization of capital markets since the 1980s has been accompanied by a vigorous debate over the convergence of corporate governance standards around the world towards the shareholder model. But even before the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009, the ...
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Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory
Peer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess
Law and economics has arguably become one of the most influential theories in contemporary legal theory and adjudication. The essays in this volume, authored by both legal scholars and economists, constitute lively and critical engagements between law and economics and ...
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Rough Consensus and Running Code: A Theory of Transnational Private Law
Gralf-Peter Calliess and Peer Zumbansen
Private law has long been the focus of efforts to explain wider developments of law in an era of globalisation. As consumer transactions and corporate activities continue to develop with scant regard to legal and national boundaries, private law theorists ...
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Securities Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary, 2nd Edition
Mary Condon, Anita Anand, and Janis Sarra
Securities Law in Canada 2nd Edition gives students a solid grounding in the basic principles and practical operation of securities law and guides them through legal developments in this area within the broader debate about the role played by securities ...
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Copyright, Contracts, Creators: New Media, New Rules
Giuseppina D'Agostino
The digital world has put content within arm’s reach of desire. No longer can an author be satisfied that her intellectual property is safely encased in a bound book, nor can a photographer know where his work will be displayed ...
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Judicial Independence in Context
Adam M. Dodek and Lorne Sossin
Judicial Independence in Context is a collection of essays by leading scholars, lawyers, and judges that examines both the theory and practice of judicial independence in Canada and around the world. Contributors assess the legacy of the Supreme Court of ...
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Work on Trial: Canadian Labour Law Struggles
Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker
Work on Trial is a collection of studies of eleven major cases and events that have helped to shape the legal landscape of work in Canada. While most of the cases are well-known because of the impact they have had ...
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The Legal Tender of Gender: Law, Welfare and the Regulation of Women's Poverty
Shelley A. M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn
Extensive welfare, law and policy reforms characterised the making and unmaking of Keynesian states in the twentieth century. This collection highlights the gendered nature of these regulatory shifts and, specifically, the roles played by women as reformers, welfare workers and ...
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Criminal Cases on the Crown Side of King's Bench: Staffordshire, 1740-1800
Douglas Hay
This volume presents the records of all cases in the court of King’s Bench arising in the ancient county of Stafford between 1740 and 1800. They are a rich source for social, political, local, and family historians, as well as ...
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Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World
Allan C. Hutchinson
Great cases are those judicial decisions around which the common law develops. This book explores eight exemplary cases from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia that show the law as a living, breathing, and down-the-street experience. It explores ...
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Canadian Constitutional Law, Fourth Edition
Patrick Macklem, Carol Rogerson, Joel Bakan, Jean Leclair, John Borrows, Ian Lee, Sujit Choudhry, Richard Moon, Robin Elliot, R. C. B. Risk, Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, Kent Roach, Donna Greschner, Bruce Ryder, Patricia Hughes, David Schneiderman, and Lorraine Weinrib
In its 4th edition, Canadian Constitutional Law continues to offer a truly national perspective — drawing on an editorial team that is rich with regional, linguistic, and scholarly diversity. This edition remains true to the structure and purposes of previous ...
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The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World and How We Can Take It Back
Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
The glittering lives of billionaires may seem like a harmless source of entertainment. But such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and the very functioning of democracy. It's no accident that the United States claims ...
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Constructing Crime: Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
Janet E. Mosher and Joan Brockman
Constructing Crime examines the central question: Why do we define and enforce particular behaviours as crimes and target particular individuals as criminals? To answer this question, contributors interrogate notions of crime, processes of criminalization, and the deployment of the concept ...
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The Common Law of Intellectual Property: Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver
Catherine W. Ng, Lionel Bently, and Giuseppina D'Agostino
This collection of essays was written in honour of David Vaver, who recently retired as Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law and Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford. The essays, written ...
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The 'Healthy' Embryo: Social, Biomedical, Legal and Philosophical Perspectives
Jeff Nisker, François Baylis, Isabel Karpin, Carolyn McLeod, and Roxanne Mykitiuk
Public attention on embryo research has never been greater. Modern reproductive medicine technology and the use of embryos to generate stem cells ensure that this will continue to be a topic of debate and research across many disciplines. This multidisciplinary ...
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Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials, 10th Edition
Kent Roach, Benjamin L. Berger, Patrick Healy, and James Stribopoulos
Building on Martin Friedland's acclaimed and innovative course materials, this new edition of Criminal Law and Procedure provides a valuable teaching tool for introductory courses on criminal law and criminal justice. Students are provided with an overview of the entire ...
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Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials, 6th Edition
Gus Van Harten, Gerald Heckman, and David Mullan
With in-depth and well-framed discussion of the principles of administrative law, the sixth edition of Administrative Law: Cases, Text, and Materials carries on the scholarly legacy and pedagogical standards of this respected casebook. This text covers all of the important ...
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Common Law, Civil Law and the Future of Categories
Janet Walker and Oscar G. Chase
Around the world, there are signs that the traditional categories of civil and common law may be collapsing in the wake of procedural reform spurred by a new range of concerns and aspirations for procedure. In the United Kingdom, the ...
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Civil Litigation
Janet Walker and Lorne Sossin
Civil Litigation by Professors Janet Walker and Lorne Sossin is a concise narrative of the key elements of the resolution of civil disputes in Canada. It covers all aspects of civil procedure and provides a useful pan-Canadian comparison of legislation ...
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The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials, 7th Edition
Janet Walker, Garry D. Watson, Allan C. Hutchinson, and Timothy Pinos
In its 7th edition, The Civil Litigation Process remains Canada's leading casebook on civil procedure. The new edition reflects recent developments in the law and embodies changes in the evolving approach to the teaching and learning of procedural law in ...
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Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, 8th Edition
Stephanie Ben-Ishai and David Percy
Extensively revised and updated since its previous publication in 2004, Contracts: Cases and Commentaries, 8th 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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