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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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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Competition Policy and Intellectual Property

Marcel Boyer, Michael J. Trebilcock, and David Vaver

This title contains discussions that explore the role of competition policy and intellectual property rights in promoting an efficient and innovative economy. This volume contains a collection of papers and commentaries stemming from a March 2005 symposium, which was organized ...
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Canadian Income Tax Law, 3rd Edition

David G. Duff, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, and Lisa C. Philipps
Canadian Evidence Law in a Nutshell

Lisa Dufraimont

Canadian Evidence Law in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition provides a succinct introduction to the legal and practical aspects of the law of evidence in Canada. Professors Delisle and Dufraimont articulate the principles underlying each of the rules of evidence, bringing ...
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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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Administrative Law in Context [1st Edition]

Colleen M. Flood and Lorne Sossin
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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