The Courts
An insider's perspective on the role of judges, lawyers, and expert witnesses; the cost of litigation; the representativeness of juries; legal aid issues; and questions of jury reform.
Diversity and Equality
The Changing Framework of Freedom in Canada
Critically examines the challenge of protecting rights in diverse societies.
Rethinking Domestic Violence
Dutton’s rethinking of the fundamentals of intimate partner violence is essential reading for psychologists, policy makers, and those dealing with the sociology of social science, the relationship of psychology to law, and explanations of adverse behaviour.
Misrecognized Materialists
Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics
A book with provocative implications for students and scholars of social movements and identity politics, Misrecognized Materialists offers a fresh and important perspective on Canada’s constitutional struggles over civic symbolism and identity.
Critical Disability Theory
Essays in Philosophy, Politics, Policy, and Law
This book argues that we need a new understanding of participatory citizenship that encompasses the disabled, new policies to respond to their needs, and a new vision of their entitlements.
Law and Citizenship
The essays this volume provide a framework for analyzing citizenship in an increasingly globalized world by addressing a number of fundamental questions.
Negotiating Buck Naked
Doukhobors, Public Policy, and Conflict Resolution
Soon after the arrival of Doukhobors to British Columbia, new immigrants clashed with the state over issues such as land ownership, the registration of births and deaths, and school attendance. As positions hardened, the conflict, often violent, intensified and continued unabated for the better part of a century, until an accord was finally negotiated in the mid-1980s.
Courts and Federalism
Judicial Doctrine in the United States, Australia, and Canada
Examining recent developments in the judicial review of federalism through detailed surveys of the United States, Australia, and Canada, this book urges political scientists to take courts and judicial reasoning more seriously in their accounts of federal government.
Justice for Young Offenders
Their Needs, Our Responses
This ground-breaking analysis of complex issues of youth justice challenges the assumptions behind Canada’s approach to youth justice and mental health disorders.
Good Government? Good Citizens?
Courts, Politics, and Markets in a Changing Canada
Examining the altered roles of courts, politics, and markets over the last two decades, this book explores the evolving concept of the citizen in Canada at the beginning of this century.
Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940
Challenging myths about a peaceful west and prairie exceptionalism, the book explores the substance of prairie legal history and the degree to which the region's mentality is rooted in the historical experience of distinctive prairie peoples.
Governing with the Charter
Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent
Has parliamentary democracy been weakened by judicial responses to the Charter?
Despotic Dominion
Property Rights in British Settler Societies
Brings together the work of scholars whose study of the evolution of property law in the colonies recognizes the value in locating property law and rights within the broader political, economic, and intellectual contexts of those societies.
Law and Risk
Demonstrating the linkages between law and risk, these essays tackle some difficult topics, including dangerous offenders, sex offender notification, drug courts, genetic research, pesticide use, child pornography, and tobacco advertising.
Defending Rights in Russia
Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reform in the Post-Soviet Era
Advancing Aboriginal Claims
Visions/Strategies/Directions
Policy, philosophy, strategy, and legal arguments are combined to build innovative strategies to advance Aboriginal claims.
The Heiress vs the Establishment
Mrs. Campbell's Campaign for Legal Justice
A rare first-person account of Canada’s early twentieth century legal system, this books retells the Mrs. Campbell fourteen-year-battle with the Ontario legal establishment to claim her mother’s estate.
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation
Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Catherine Dauvergne examines the relationship between migration laws and national identities and highlights the role of humanitarianism in this linkage.