Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution
Foreign Affairs in the Canadian Constitution is a meticulously argued case for having the Canadian foreign affairs power rest firmly within the federal sphere.
Fatal Confession
A Girl’s Murder, a Man’s Execution, and the Fitton Case
Fatal Confession is a gripping account of a 1950s sex murder and execution set against a backdrop of public concern about sex crimes and the justifiability of the death penalty.
Challenging Exile
Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution
Challenging Exile delves into the origins, experience, and aftermath of a shameful moment in Canada’s past: the government’s attempt to exile thousands of Japanese Canadians after the Second World War.
Deciding on Death
Rodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in Canada
Deciding on Death is a comprehensive analysis of the ethical debate, political controversy, and judicial and legislative developments culminating in the legalization of medically assisted dying in Canada.
Greyscale Legality
The Diverse Landscape of Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in China
Greyscale Legality provides a sharp and systematic analysis of how legal texts and industry contexts interact to shape the enforcement of intellectual property law across Chinese industries.
Artificial Democracy
The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity
Artificial Democracy examines the multiple ways in which big data, analytics, and AI are transforming contemporary democracies.
Trade and Marine Environment Protection / Commerce et protection du milieu marin
Status and Perspective of International, Regional and National Laws / Situation et perspective du droit international, régional et national
The Independence of the Prosecutor
Controversy in the Creation of the International Criminal Court
This compelling investigation shows how an independent prosecutor, who can initiate investigations without states’ assent, became a key part of the International Criminal Court.
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition
A Canadian Obligation
Against the backdrop of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context.
Heenan Blaikie
The Making and Unmaking of a Great Canadian Law Firm
What really happened at Heenan Blaikie? This is the ultimate account of what went on behind the scenes of the largest law firm dissolution in Canadian history.
Ancillary Police Powers in Canada
A Critical Reassessment
Ancillary Police Powers in Canada investigates the scope of police powers under Canadian common law, and the implications for our rights, freedoms, and individual liberty.
Family and Justice in the Archives
Historical Perspectives on Intimacy and the Law
Canada and Colonialism
An Unfinished History
Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in our institutions and culture.
Constraining the Court
Judicial Power and Policy Implementation in the Charter Era
Constraining the Court considers what happens when a statute involving a significant public policy issue is declared unconstitutional – and government disagrees.
Canada’s Surprising Constitution
Unexpected Interpretations of the Constitution Act, 1982
Canada’s Surprising Constitution asks why the Constitution Act, 1982, keeps generating unexpected interpretations and outcomes.
Suing for Silence
Sexual Violence and Defamation Law
Suing for Silence exposes the phenomenon of lawsuits whose purpose is to silence those who disclose sexual violence, revealing the gendered underpinnings of Canadian defamation law and its chilling effect on public discourse including formal reports of sexual violence.
Judging Sex Work
Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights
Judging Sex Work argues that a decision widely considered to be a victory for social justice weakened sex workers’ rights far more than it strengthened them.
Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here
The Paradox of Protection in Canada
Refugees Are (Not) Welcome Here details the paradox of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of access to refugee rights in Canada.
Penser le lien culture-nature en droit
Réflexions. Réalisations. Aspirations.
Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport
Is sexual assault tolerated in Canadian sport? After reaching the provocative conclusion that sexual assaults are not only accepted but normalized and even promoted, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport offers constructive strategies to make sport safer.
Too Few to Matter
Institutional Inertia in the Prisoning of Women in Québec and Canada
The Notorious Georges
Crime and Community in British Columbia's Northern Interior, 1905–25
The Notorious Georges is an engaging exploration of the alchemy of community identity and reputation in Prince George, BC, once branded Canada’s most-dangerous city.
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec
Bill 21 in Perspective
The Challenges of a Secular Quebec opens up the debates that gave rise to a controversial law on state religious neutrality, taking an open-minded look at how secularism is understood and how it has imposed itself in the Quebec social space.
The Law is (Not) for Kids, Revised and Updated Edition
A Legal Rights Guide for Canadian Children and Teens
A Culture of Justification
Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law
A Culture of Justification examines how a groundbreaking case involving undercover spies and a man’s fight for citizenship helped the Supreme Court of Canada forge a consensus on the future of one of the most important areas in Canadian law.
Protecting the Coast and Ocean
A Guide to Marine Conservation Law in British Columbia
Protecting the Coast and Ocean, the first comprehensive guide to marine protection law in British Columbia, analyzes and compares the legal tools available to reverse ocean decline.
Violence, Imagination, and Resistance
Socio-Legal Interrogations of Power
Dispatches from Disabled Country
Dispatches from Disabled Country is a nuanced and unmistakably poetic introduction to the rich landscape of disability activism and culture from one of Canada’s most recognized voices, Catherine Frazee.
Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution
Enshrining the Right to Sexual Autonomy in Japan
Sex, Sexuality, and the Constitution persuasively demonstrates the need to entrench protections for individual sexual autonomy within constitutional law.