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Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Cases, Text and Materials, Second Edition
Anthony Duggan, Stephanie Ben-Ishai, Thomas Telfer, Roderick Wood, and Jacob S. Ziegel
This new edition explains recent changes to the law on a range of issues — preferences and transfers at undervalue, the disclaimer of executory contracts, employee protection, the provision of debtor-in-possession financing in restructuring proceedings, and cross-border insolvencies — and ...
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The Law School Book: Succeeding at Law School [3rd Edition]
Allan C. Hutchinson
This new edition of The Law School Book is essential reading for anyone beginning the study of law or for those considering application to law school. Professor Hutchinson explores both the theoretical foundations of the Canadian legal system and the ...
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Reading the Future?: Legal and Ethical Challenges of New Predictive Genetic Testing
Trudo Lemmens, Mireille Lacroix, and Roxanne Mykitiuk
The mapping of the Human Genome has been touted as the beginning of a new scientific era. In medicine, it is expected to bring with it the widespread use of “predictive genetic testing” a term used to describe both pre-symptomatic ...
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Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives
Benjamin J. Richardson, Shin Imai, and Kent McNeil
Indigenous Peoples and the Law provides an historical, comparative and contextual analysis of various legal and policy issues affecting Indigenous peoples. It focuses on the common law jurisdictions of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, as well as ...
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Climate Law and Developing Countries : Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Economy
Benjamin J. Richardson, Yves Le Bouthillier, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, and Stepan Wood
This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate change. With contributions from over twenty international scholars from developing and developed countries, the book ...
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Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis
Peter H. Russell and Lorne Sossin
In November 2008, as the economic decline was being fully realized, Canada's newly elected minority government, led by Conservative Stephen Harper, presented a highly divisive fiscal update in advance of a proposed budget. Unable to support the motion, the Liberal ...
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A Perilous Imbalance : The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance
Stepan Wood and Stephen Clarkson
As citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces. But they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human ...
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Honouring Social Justice: Honouring Dianne Martin
Margaret E. Beare
Honouring Social Justice brings together a diverse group of leading legal scholars, criminologists, and sociologists to study numerous contemporary social justice issues. In doing so, the contributors to this collection present a thorough and multifaceted portrait of recent successes and ...
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Bankruptcy Reforms 2008
Stephanie Ben-Ishai
On December 14, 2007, Bill C-12, an Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA), the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), the Wage Earner Protection Program Act and chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005 received Royal Assent. ...
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Law for Social Workers, 4th Edition
Rachel Birnbaum and Janet E. Mosher
The new edition of this important handbook – formerly authored by Elaine Vayda and Mary Satterfield – continues in the tradition of the original in demystifying the law for the social worker. As with the previous edition, the fourth edition ...
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Reflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson
Jamie Cameron
These essays reflect on Justice Wilson's legacy, and the differences she made during her landmark tenure at the Supreme Court of Canada, including her significant contributions to the prominent issues of her era, and especially to the Charter of Rights ...
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The Charter and Criminal Justice: Twenty-five Years Later
Jamie Cameron and James Stribopoulos
When the Charter of Rights and Freedoms turned twenty-five in 2007, Professors Jamie Cameron and James Stribopoulos organized a conference which brought together leading thinkers on the Charterand criminal justice. A strong faculty of academics, judges and practitioners debated and ...
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The Grand Experiment Law and Legal Culture in British Settler Societies
Hamar Foster, Benjamin L. Berger, and A. R. Buck
In the late nineteenth century, the English legal historians Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland coined the phrase "the grand experiment" to describe the spread of English law throughout the British Empire. For Pollock and Maitland, this was an unequivocally positive ...
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Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains : The First Nations and the First Criminal Court in the North-West Territories, 1870–1903
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
This study undertakes an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the First Nations and the criminal law in the 'Saskatchewan' region of the North-West Territories, taking as its temporal point of departure the creation of the Territories in 1870. Through ...
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The Theory and Practice of Representative Negotiation
Colleen Hanycz, Frederick H. Zemans, and Trevor C. W. Farrow
Emond Montgomery Publications presents a welcome new title in the field of negotiation, The Theory and Practice of Representative Negotiation. With a highly respected line-up of contributors and a strong Canadian focus, this book will be of great interest not ...
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The Province of Jurisprudence Democratized
Allan C. Hutchinson
The Province of Jurisprudence Democratized explores the implications of taking a vigorously democratic approach to issues of traditional legal theory. Allan C. Hutchinson introduces the democratic vision and examines the complementary philosophy of a Dewey-inspired pragmatism. This is followed by ...
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Socially Responsible Investment Law: Regulating the Unseen Polluters
Benjamin J. Richardson
Environmental harm is commonly associated with companies that extract, consume, and pollute our shared natural resources. Rarely are the 'unseen polluters,' the financiers that sponsor and profit from eco-damaging corporations, placed at the forefront of the environmental debate. By focusing ...
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The CRTC and Broadcasting Regulation in Canada
Liora Salter and Felix N. L. Odartey-Wellington
This book reviews the state of play of the CRTC and broadcasting regulation in Canada at a time when much is changing in the broadcasting environment. It examines CRTC decisions, past and present, in light of the reasoning that lies ...
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Business Organizations: Cases, Problems, and Case Studies, 2nd Edition
Gordon Smith and Cynthia Williams
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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The Vis Book: A Participant's Guide to the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
Janet Walker
This book is about the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. The Vis Moot is...well...hmmm.... That is just the problem. The Moot is an extraordinary phenomenon that cannot be summed up in a few lines, even by way of ...
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Business Organizations: Principles, Policies, and Practice
Robert Yalden, Janis Sarra, Paul Paton, Mark Gillen, Ronald Davis, and Mary G. Condon
Business Organizations: Principles, Policies, and Practice provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of legal developments and scholarship relating to the forms of business organization in Canada. The law governing the corporate form is treated in detail, and partnerships and business ...
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Police and Government Relations: Who’s Calling the Shots?
Margaret E. Beare and Tonita Murray
Questions of police governance, accountability and independence have been subjected to thorough research before. That the issue still draws critical attention more than twenty years after the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ...
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Money Laundering in Canada: Chasing of Dirty and Dangerous Dollars
Margaret E. Beare and Stephen Schneider
Money laundering is the process of converting or transferring cash or other assets, generated from illegal activity, in order to conceal or disguise their origins. In recent years, the international community has decided that focusing on money laundering is an ...
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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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