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Controversies in the Common Law

Controversies in the Common Law

Tracing the Contributions of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin

Edited by Vanessa Gruben, Graham Mayeda and Owen Rees

Price: $70.00

ISBN: 9781487540722

Pub Date: October 2022

Controversies in the Common Law identifies some of the thorniest problems in private and public law, and explains how Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin addressed them by applying a common law approach to judging.

The Pluralist Right to Health Care

The Pluralist Right to Health Care

A Framework and Case Study

by Michael Da Silva

Price: $85.00

ISBN: 9781487508722

Pub Date: December 2021

Offering a new conception of the right to health care as a complex but morally justifiable and realistically achievable right, this book helps resolve persistent problems with the idea of health rights.

Ethics Out of Law

Ethics Out of Law

Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor”

by Dana Hollander

Price: $80.00

ISBN: 9781487506247

Pub Date: June 2021

This is the first book in English to lay out the philosophical ethics and philosophy of law of Hermann Cohen, one of the leading figures in both Neo-Kantian and Jewish philosophy.

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood

Human Rights after Corporate Personhood

Edited by Jody Greene and Sharif Youssef

Price: $84.00

ISBN: 9781487506964

Pub Date: November 2020

Interdisciplinary in scope, this book draws from a range of specialized scholarship and archival research to intervene in current debates on the study of corporations.

Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education

Aspiration and Reality in Legal Education

by David Sandomierski

Price: $79.00

ISBN: 9781487505943

Pub Date: April 2020

Using extensive and novel new research, this book explores one of the long-standing challenges in legal education – the prospects for bringing legal theory into the training of future lawyers.

Creating Legal Worlds

Creating Legal Worlds

Story and Style in a Culture of Argument

by Greig Henderson

Price: $41.95

ISBN: 9781487523800

Pub Date: September 2018

Through careful analyses of notable cases from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Greig Henderson analyses how the rhetoric of storytelling often carries as much argumentative weight within a judgement as the logic of legal distinctions.

Brewing Legal Times

Brewing Legal Times

Things, Form, and the Enactment of Law

by Emily Grabham

Price: $63.00

ISBN: 9781442646056

Pub Date: September 2016

In Brewing Legal Times, Emily Grabham boldly draws on perspectives from actor-network theory, feminist theory, and legal anthropology to advance our understanding of law and time.

Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy

Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy

From Classical Republicanism to the Crisis of Modern Criminal Justice

by Arthur Shuster

Price: $58.00

ISBN: 9781442647282

Pub Date: January 2016

In Punishment and the History of Political Philosophy, Arthur Shuster offers an insightful study of punishment in the works of Plato, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Beccaria, Kant, and Foucault.

Law’s Religion

Law's Religion

Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism

by Benjamin L. Berger

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781442612068

Pub Date: November 2015

In Law’s Religion, Benjamin L. Berger argues that liberal constitutionalism is an aspect of, not an answer to, the challenges of cultural pluralism.

Contextual Subjects

Contextual Subjects

Family, State, and Relational Theory

by Robert Leckey

Price: $87.00

ISBN: 9780802097491

Pub Date: February 2008

Contextual Subjects is the most thorough and sustained application of relational theory to legal examples to appear to date. It is unique in Canadian legal scholarship for the way it pairs family law and administrative law, and within legal scholarship in English for its integration of common law and civil law.

Law and Morality

Law and Morality

Readings in Legal Philosophy

Edited by David Dyzenhaus, Sophia Reibetanz Moreau and Arthur Ripstein

Price: $79.00

ISBN: 9780802094896

Pub Date: June 2007

Since its first publication in 1996, Law and Morality has filled a long-standing need for a contemporary Canadian textbook in the philosophy of law. Now in its third edition, this anthology has been thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on equality, judicial review, and terrorism and the rule of law.

The Hateful and the Obscene

The Hateful and the Obscene

Studies in the Limits of Free Expression

by Leonard W. Sumner

Price: $50.00

ISBN: 9780802080837

Pub Date: November 2004

The Hateful and the Obscene is a compelling interpretation of freedom of expression that combines serious philosophical thought with a focus on Canadian law, thus maintaining the breadth to deal with both obscenity and hate literature.

Parallel Paths

Parallel Paths

Fiduciary Doctrine and the Crown-Native Relationship in Canada

by Leonard Rotman

Price: $57.00

ISBN: 9781487583538

Pub Date: December 1996

In a landmark decision in 1984, the Supreme Court of Canada declared that the Crown is bound by fiduciary, or trust-like, obligations to Canada's aboriginal peoples. Leonard Rotman explores the unanswered questions that plague the Crown-Native fiduciary relationship.

Argument Structure

Argument Structure

A Pragmatic Theory

by Douglas Walton

Price: $43.95

ISBN: 9780802071378

Pub Date: July 1996

Douglas Walton provides a systematic survey, clarification, and assessment of the different tests currently being used to carry out the tasks involved in argument identification.
Mr Attorney

Mr Attorney

The Attorney General for Ontario in Court, Cabinet, and Legislature 1791–1899

by Paul Romney

Price: $53.00

ISBN: 9781487580209

Pub Date: December 1986

In early Upper Canada the attorney general was little more than a skilled functionary -- the Crown's chief legal counsel; by the mid-19th century he had become a leading member of cabinet and generally premier. Mr Attorney is the story of this transformation and many other aspects of the attorney general's role in 19th-century Ontario.

The Prosecutor

The Prosecutor

An Inquiry into the Exercise of Discretion

by Brian A. Grosman

Price: $18.95

ISBN: 9780802063410

Pub Date: December 1978

Professor Grosman describes and analyses the prosecutor's informal relations with the police and defence lawyers, and the significance these relationships have for the accused and for the fair administration of justice.
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