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Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies
Benjamin Berger, Pamela E. Klassen, and Monique Scheer
This book explores the challenges of promise-making in societies characterized by legal and religious pluralism and shaped by colonialism. It examines how promises are sites of meaning and memory, made through spiritual appeals, contestation, and more. How should we understand ...
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Global Corporations and Sustainability: Rethinking Legal and Economic Frameworks Corporations, Globalisation and the Law series
Barnali Choudhury
This timely book examines how international legal regimes interact to govern corporate sustainability and how this interaction may enable harmful corporate conduct. With a focus on human rights abuse and the impacts of climate change, contributors from diverse legal backgrounds ...
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Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law
Karen Drake, Kyle Kirkup, Anne Levesque, Jena McGill, and Joshua Sealy-Harrington
Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is a groundbreaking open-access collection of peer-reviewed essays showcasing interdisciplinary thinking on topical public law issues at the forefront of the evolving relationship between state and society. In Canada, this relationship is undergoing a ...
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The Evolution and Future of Money in Canada: Implications for the Digital Age, Legal and Regulatory Perspective
Benjamin Geva
The concept of money in Canada has evolved to adapt to global technological and institutional changes. In this broad context this book explores the impact of emerging digital technologies on how society and government regulators think about money. The Evolution ...
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Indigenous Spirituality and Religious Freedom
Jeffery Hewitt, Beverley Jacobs, and Richard Moon
This collection explores Indigenous spiritual practices, their suppression by the Canadian state, and the intersection of Indigenous legal orders with Canadian law. Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the ...
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Rethinking Legitimacy: Courts, Constitutions and Politics
Allan C. Hutchinson
This book presents a new perspective on the debate around legitimacy, politics and constitutional law in Supreme Courts. Moving away from the troubling perception that Supreme Courts are trampling on the wrong side of the law/politics divide, it accepts and ...
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Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law, 11th Ed.
Jinyan Li and Joanne Magee
Principles of Canadian Income Tax Law is an introduction to Canadian income tax law using clear, concise, and non-technical language. As with previous editions, the emphasis is on the principles of income tax law, the policies that influence and underlie ...
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Deciding on Death: Rodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in Canada
Kent McNeil and Wayne Sumner
Should Canadians have the right to medical assistance in dying? That question has galvanized debate since the early 1990s, when Sue Rodriguez unsuccessfully challenged the criminalization of assisted dying. The Supreme Court of Canada subsequently reversed its position in a ...
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Corporate Governance: Law, Regulation and Theory, Second Edition
Marc Moore and Martin Petrin
This thoroughly updated second edition of an acclaimed textbook provides the definitive academic account of corporate governance as a subject of legal inquiry. Marc Moore and Martin Petrin analyse the legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance, with references to ...
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Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age
Jonathon W. Penney
In Chilling Effects, Jonathon W. Penney explores the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, governments, and extremist actors using big data, cyber-mobs, AI, and other threats to limit our rights and ...
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Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Challenges, 3rd Edition
Robert Yalden, Mark Gillen, Janis P. Sarra, Mary Condon, Mohamed F. Khimji, Paul D. Paton, Carol M. Liao, Bradley Bryan, Barnali Choudhury, Frankie Young, and Peer Zumbansen
Business Organizations: Practice, Theory and Emerging Challenges, 3rd Edition is more than just a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of business structures, including partnerships and corporations. It highlights diverse perspectives on the objectives of business organizations, the roles and responsibilities ...
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Families and the Law : Cases and Commentary, 4th ed.
Natasha Bakht, Vanessa Gruben, Shelley Kierstead, and Robert Leckey
Families and the Law, Fourth Edition continues its ongoing discourse in family law aiming to address three main questions - what constitutes a family, what role law plays in different types of families, and how families and family law evolved ...
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The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials
Margaret Boittin
In this compelling book, Margaret L. Boittin delves into the complex world of prostitution in China and how it shapes the lives of those involved in it. Through in-depth fieldwork, Boittin provides a fascinating case study of the role of ...
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International Taxation in Canada: Principles and Practices, 5th Edition
Jinyan Li and Paul Lamarre
"This book provides an understanding of the underlying policy governing international tax rules as well as how foreign tax laws interact with Canadian laws. In this edition, the authors are looking to make the book more accessible to students and ...
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The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis
Moira McCarney, Ruth Kuras, Annette Demers, and Shelley Kierstead
The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis, 4th Edition comes with free access to Casebook+, a digital student supplements package to enhance your learning and support your success. The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis, 4th ...
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Legal Research Methods for the English-Speaking Caribbean
Yasmin Morais and Yemisi Dina
Legal Research Methods for the English-Speaking Caribbean identifies the sources of legal information for the English-speaking Caribbean and provides unique coverage of the independent states and overseas territories in this jurisdiction with a shared history of British colonialism. It is ...
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Fridman's The Law of Contract in Canada, Seventh Ed.
Jason Neyers, Gregory Bowley, Joanna Langille, Carl McArthur, Jennifer Nadler, Stéphane Sérafin, Samuel Beswick, Mitch McInnes, Manish Oza, and Mery Ppasiou
"This is the first edition written without the contributions from the esteemed Gerald H.L. Fridman. In his memory, the book is now entitled Fridman’s The Law of Contract in Canada. The law of contract has seen many changes in the ...
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Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria
Rabiat Akande
Set in Colonial Northern Nigeria, this book confronts a paradox: the state insisted on its separation from religion even as it governed its multireligious population through what remained of the precolonial caliphate. Entangled Domains grapple with this history to offer ...
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Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development
Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, and Sundhya Pahuja
Since the mid-twentieth century, 'international law' and 'international development' have become two of the most prominent secular languages through which aspirations about a better world are articulated.. They have shaped the both the treatment and self-understanding of the 'developing' world, ...
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The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Commentary
Barnali Choudhury
This comprehensive Commentary provides an in-depth analysis of each of the 31 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as well as the 10 Principles for Responsible Contracts. It engages in both a legal and contextual examination of the ...
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The Future of Remote Work
Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano, Agnieszka Piasna, and Silvia Rainone
Debates on the future of work have taken a more fundamental turn in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Early in 2020, when large sections of the workforce were prevented from coming to their usual places of work, remote work ...
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From Morality to Law and Back Again: A Liber Amicorum for John Gardner
Michelle Madden Dempsey and François Tanguay-Renaud
John Gardner was one of the most prolific, widely read, and influential scholars working in philosophy of law. This book celebrates, explores, and develops themes of his work during his sixteen years as Professor of Jurisprudence at University of Oxford. ...
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Law at Work : The Coercion and Co-Option of the Working Class
Harry Glasbeek
"The renowned Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law has been used to ensure that workers' aspirations are kept in check.Law at Work uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the exploitation of workers. Using historic ...
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