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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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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Liability of the Crown, 4th Edition

Peter W. Hogg, Patrick J. Monahan, and Wade K. Wright

With government having assumed an important role in most areas of economic and social life, issues relating to potential legal liability for wrongful or negligent activity have taken on increasing importance. When things go wrong, whether it involves matters as ...
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International Taxation in Canada: Principles and Practices [2nd Edition]

Jinyan Li, Arthur J. Cockfield, and J. Scott Wilkie

The second edition of International Taxation in Canada continues the journey of assisting the reader to understand Canada's international tax regime. The authors strive to do so as comprehensively as possible, without overwhelming their audience with the massive scope and ...
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Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal

Russell A. Miller and Peer C. Zumbansen

In Comparative Law as Transnational Law: A Decade of the German Law Journal, Russell A. Miller and Peer C. Zumbansen have assembled the works of scholars from around the world, forming a richly contextual demonstration of the increasing encounters and ...
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Criminal Procedure in Canada

Steven Penney, Vincenzo Rondinelli, and James Stribopoulos

This guide explains the rules of criminal procedure in a clear, concise manner ideal for prosecutors, defence lawyers, law students and judges. Relevant rules and procedures are introduced and explained in the same sequence that a person investigating and prosecuting ...
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Tax Expenditures: State of the Art

Lisa Philipps, Neil Brooks, and Jinyan Li

Over the last 40 years, tax expenditure analysis has reshaped the way policy makers and practitioners around the world think about the design of tax systems. This volume presents recent research on tax expenditures and their role in the fiscal ...
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Cases, Materials and Notes on Partnerships and Canadian Business Corporations, Fifth Edition

Poonam Puri, Anita I. Anand, Ron Daniels, Aaron A. Dhir, Ed Iacobucci, Ian Lee, Jeff MacIntosh, Edward J. Waitzer, and Jacob S. Ziegel

The 5th edition of Cases, Materials and Notes on Partnerships and Canadian Business Corporations remains the definitive source of the law relating to partnerships and corporations. This edition provides a comprehensive update (including commentary) of statutory and common law changes ...
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Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 3rd Edition

Hamish Stewart, Renalda Murphy, Steven Penney, Marilyn L. Pilkington, and James Stribopoulos

Designed to meet the needs of second-year and third-year courses in evidence, the third edition of Evidence: A Canadian Casebook investigates the rules and principles that govern how facts are established in legal proceedings. The author team, consisting of well-respected ...
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Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 8th ed.

The Labour Law Casebook Group and Sara Slinn
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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Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law [7th Edition]

Peter W. Hogg, Joanne E. Magee, and Jinyan Li
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 Law of Restitution, 2011 Student Edition

Peter D. Maddaugh and John D. Mccamus
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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