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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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Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law: Bill C-55, Statute c. 47 and Beyond
Stephanie Ben-Ishai and Anthony J. Duggan
Canadian bankruptcy law faces a unique situation. Statute c.47 was enacted in late 2005 but has not yet come into force. The "2007 Amending Bill" now calls for substantial amendments to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement ...
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Constitutional Law of Canada, 5th Edition
Peter W. Hogg
The definitive work on Canadian constitutional law, written by a respected constitutional law scholar. All aspects of the subject are thoroughly analyzed, including: Basic constitutional concepts such as: financial arrangements, the courts, the Crown, treaties, parliamentary sovereignty and delegation Distribution ...
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The African Human Rights System: Activist Forces and International Institutions
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
This 2007 book draws from and builds upon many of the more traditional approaches to the study of international human rights institutions (IHIs), especially quasi-constructivism. The author reveals some of the ways in which many such domestic deployments of the ...
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All In Together Girls
Kate Sutherland
Candid and truthful stories about women, young and old, grappling with generational wariness, creative recklessness, and illusive purpose celebrate all that is beautiful, wild and distinctive in contemporary women. The title, All In Together Girls,is inspired by a jump rope ...
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Investment Treaty Arbitration and Public Law
Gus Van Harten
The recent explosion of investment treaty arbitration marks a major transformation of both international and public law, above all because of the manner in which states have delegated core powers of the courts to private arbitrators. This book outlines investment ...
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Dilemmas of Solidarity: Rethinking Redistribution in the Canadian Federation
Sujit Choudhry, Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens, and Lorne Sossin
Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to ...
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Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities
Susan G. Drummond
Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when the voices of each discipline are invited ...
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Canadian Income Tax Law, 2nd Edition
David G. Duff, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, and Lisa C. Philipps
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Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms
Judy Fudge and Rosemary Owens
Globalisation, the shift from manufacturing to services as a source of employment, and the spread of information-based systems and technologies have given birth to a new economy, which emphasises flexibility in the labour market and in employment relations. These changes ...
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If Plato Had Played Football: Playing a Different Game of Philosophy and Life
Allan C. Hutchinson
This book takes football and its surrounding myths and milieus as a legitimate occasion for reflections on life and living. It taps into the enormous energy and emotions that are expended on football throughout the world. Football is a truly ...
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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility [2nd Edition]
Allan C. Hutchinson
The importance of ethical behaviour and professional responsibility has long been something lawyers have insisted is a hallmark of their chosen profession. However, many lawyers would argue that a discussion of these matters is necessary only when considering isolated and ...
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International Taxation in Canada: Principles and Practices [1st Edition]
Jinyan Li, J. Scott Wilkie, and Arthur J. Cockfield
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Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants and Indigenous Knowledge
Ikechi Mgbeoji
Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is a vexing issue. The phenomenon of appropriation of plants and TKUP, otherwise known as biopiracy, thrives in a cultural milieu where non-Western forms of ...
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The First Women Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions
Mary Jane Mossman
This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive ...
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Environmental Law for Sustainability : A Reader
Benjamin J. Richardson and Stepan Wood
This volume of new essays presents critical new scholarship on law for sustainable development. Its contributors provide international and comparative perspectives on the current state of environmental law and its future directions. Aimed at both students and scholars in law ...
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Evidence: A Canadian Casebook, 2nd Edition
Hamish Stewart, Marilyn L. Pilkington, Renalda Murphy, Steven Penney, and James Stribopoulos
In most law school courses, the facts of the cases studied are taken as a given: the facts of they are presented as found by a trial court or tribunal or as understood by an appellate court. The law of ...
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Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response
Eric Tucker
Every day, workers are injured, made ill, or killed on the job. Most often, workers experience these harms individually and in isolation. Particular occurrences rarely attract much public attention beyond, perhaps, a small paragraph in the local newspaper. Instead, these ...
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The Annual of German & European Law, Vols. 2 & 3
Peer Zumbansen
German law has been of long-standing interest and increasing relevance around the world, but access for researchers and practitioners very frequently was limited by the necessity of German language proficiency. Offering English-language access to these fields, the Annual of German ...
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Access to Justice for a New Century: The Way Forward
Julia H. Bass, W. A. Bogart, and Frederick H. Zemans
This book is a timely addition to the literature on access to justice. The book's essays address all aspects of the topic, including differing views on the meaning of access to justice; ways to improve access to legal services; litigation ...
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