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The Promise and Perils of Law: Lawyers in Canadian History
Constanc Backhouse and W. Wesley Pue
The papers that make up this volume were produced on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the opening of Osgoode Hall, one of Toronto’s landmark buildings. This event presented a unique opportunity for reflection on the legal profession and its role in Canadian history. The “legal profession” is simultaneously a trade organization, a corporate ideology, an important cultural actor, and an aggregation of individuals known both for their zealous pursuit of their clients’ interests and for their assertive individualism. This book offers essays that seek to add to the understanding of Canada’s legal profession and to provide a background to inform conversation concerning its past, present, and future.
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Surveillance
Benjamin J. Goold
Over the past fifty years, the apparatus of surveillance in modern societies has expanded to such an extent that almost every aspect of our public and private lives is now open to scrutiny and analysis. Each time we walk down a city street or pass through a shopping centre, CCTV cameras record our every move. Credit card and online purchases are logged and used to construct ever more detailed profiles of our consumption patterns and preferences. Personal information held by a bewildering array of state and private organizations is becoming increasingly centralized and searchable. As a result, modern life and citizenship is now intimately bound up with surveillance and the construction of data profiles, profiles that are largely beyond our power to alter or amend, and which may bear little resemblance to how we see ourselves (or want to be seen). Combining fear of crime and a desire for social control, surveillance is an inescapable fact of modern life.
Research on surveillance—conducted by governments, academics, and the private sector—has exploded in recent years and this new title in the Routledge series, Critical Concepts in Criminology, addresses the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of interdisciplinary scholarly literature. Edited by Benjamin Goold of Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology and organized into three principal parts, Surveillance is a four-volume collection of the foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship.
Surveillance is fully indexed and includes a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. An essential reference collection, it is destined to be valued by scholars and students of criminology—as well as those working in the allied fields of sociology, politics, and urban studies—as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.
[From https://www.routledge.com/Surveillance/Goold/p/book/9780415458191]
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New Directions in Surveillance and Privacy
Benjamin J. Goold and Daniel Neyland
The field of surveillance studies is growing at a rapid rate, fuelled by a growing interest in the questions that lie at its heart and a deep unease about the future of individual privacy. What information is held about us, to what extent that information is secure, how new technologies ought to be regulated, and how developments in surveillance will affect our ordinary and everyday lives?
Deliberately multi-disciplinary in character, this book examines these questions from the perspective of a broad range of fields, including sociology, management research, law, literary analysis and internet studies. As privacy comes under increasing threat and surveillance activities grow in quantity and diversity, so too the academic field needs to develop in new directions, form new perspectives, and gain new insights. In keeping with this aim, the chapters of this book consider how individuals, organisations, and states are engaged in the compilation, mobilization, scrutiny and use of ever increasing amounts of information.
Divided into three sections focusing in turn on legal regulation, technologies of surveillance, and the future of privacy and surveillance, this collection provides a unique and eclectic insight into the question of how the spread of surveillance is changing our lives and the societies in which we live.
[From https://www.routledge.com/New-Directions-in-Surveillance-and-Privacy/Goold-Neyland/p/book/9781843923633]
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Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law of Canada, 4th ed.
Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law of Canada, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive four-volume looseleaf supplemented book that provides detailed annotation of the entire Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and Rules. This long-standing work is recognized as one of the major sources for serious research in bankruptcy law in Canada.
Find detailed and updated annotation and commentary on:
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and Rules
- Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act
- Farm Debt Mediation Act
- Wage Earner Protection Program Act
The section-by-section and rule-by-rule case annotations and commentary provide an exhaustive and detailed resource tool for insolvency lawyers, trustees, receivers, and liquidators. The collection of policy documents, model orders, forms, and precedents provide additional practice guides to make it the most complete resource for the professional. This revised edition includes a completely new, easier-to-use table of contents and index along with an update to the commentary annotating the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act – Part I (Compromises and Arrangements).
[From Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law of Canada, 4th Edition | Thomson Reuters]
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The 2010 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra
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A Flawed Compass: A Human Rights Analysis of the Roadmap to Strengthening Public Safety
Michael Jackson and Graham Stewart
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Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage: Laws, Policy, and Reform
Robert K. Paterson
Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a complex legal and policy environment.
This companion volume to First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law looks at the key features of Canadian, US, and international law influencing indigenous cultural heritage in Canada. Legal and extralegal avenues for reform are examined, including ethics codes, research protocols, institutional policies, human rights law, and First Nation legal orders. The book also discusses the opportunities and limits of existing frameworks and questions whether a radical shift in legal and political relations is necessary for First Nations concerns to be meaningfully addressed.
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The Hypothesis of Selective Adaptation and the Practice of Rule by Law in China
Pitman B. Potter and Gu Xiaorong
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Climate Law and Developing Countries: Legal and Policy Challenges for the World Economy
Benjamin J Richardson, Yves Le Bouthillier, Heathe McLeod-Kilmurray, and Stepan Wood
This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
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A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada
Steven Bernstein, Jutta Brunnée, David G. Duff, and Andrew Green
A Globally Integrated Climate Policy for Canada builds on the premise that Canada is in need of an approach that effectively integrates domestic priorities and global policy imperatives.
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Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law
Catherine Dauvergne
This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under the pressures of globalizing forces, migration law is transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration and informs the shape this crackdown is taking. It also means that migration law reflects key facets of globalization and addresses the central debates of globalization theory. This book looks at various migration law settings, asserting that differing but related globalization effects are discernable at each location. The “core samples” interrogated in the book are drawn from refugee law, illegal labor migration, human trafficking, security issues in migration law, and citizenship law. Special attention is paid to the roles played by the European Union and the United States in setting the terms of global engagement. The book’s conclusion considers what the rule of law contributes to transformed migration law.
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Democratizing Pension Funds: Corporate Governance and Accountability
Ronald B. Davis
Pension funds own significant shares of the world’s largest corporations. However, the beneficiaries of pensions often have little or no say in corporate governance issues – in spite of their status as owners and even though the environmental, social, and economic performance of these corporations will impact not only their retirement accounts but also the very world into which they will retire.
Democratizing Pension Funds analyzes the reasons for this passivity, pointing to conflicts of interest with respect to corporate governance activity in pension plans and also to limitations in corporate, securities, and pension law. The author moves the debate further by arguing that these conflicts of interest can be addressed by giving plan members a voice in pension plan governance as well as making the pension plan accountable to them. He also outlines the legal reforms necessary to implement accountability.
This book will spark a debate concerning the need for democracy and accountability in the governance of trillions of dollars of plan members' pension plan assets and the legitimacy of the present, mostly unaccountable, corporate governance decisions made by these plans.
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Women's Inequality in Canada: Submission of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the Occasion of the Committee's Review of Canada's 6th and 7th Reports
Shelagh Day, Margot Young, and Aileen Smith
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