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Contrasting Prisoners' Rights: A Comparative Examination of England and Germany
Liora Lazarus
This volume aims to provoke reflection on the English conception and treatment of prisoners' rights, through juxtaposition with the conception of prisoners' rights in Germany. First, the German and English understandings of prisoners' legal status are examined; secondly these understandings are placed against the background of broader social, political, and legal factors; and thirdly, the methodological problems of comparative law are addressed. English and German approaches to prisoners' rights present illuminating contrasts. In England, despite significant judicial activity in the development of a jurisprudence of prisoners' rights, protection of prisoners' rights remains partial and equivocal. Many aspects of prison life are left within the realm of executive discretion. This equivocal commitment to rights in England is juxtaposed with Germany's highly articulated rights culture and its ambitious system of prisoners' rights protection under the Prison Act 1976. The German Prison Act sets out foundational principles of prison administration, affords prisoners positive rights, defines the limitations of prisoners' constitutional rights, and provides prisoners with recourse to a Prison Court. Moreover, these rights and principles have been developed and refined in a substantial body of prison law jurisprudence over the last thirty years.
[From Contrasting Prisoners' Rights: A Comparative Examination of England and Germany | Oxford Academic]
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The Third World and International Order: Law, Politics and Globalization
Antony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Karin Mickelson, and Obiora C Okafor
This collection of essays explores different dimensions of the relationship between the third world and international law. The topics covered include third world approaches to international law, non-state actors and developing countries, feminism and the third world, foreign investment, resistance and international law, and territorial disputes and native peoples. It is a further contribution to the work done by scholars intent on elaborating what might be termed Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). This initiative seeks to continue and further develop the important work that has been done over many decades, particularly by scholars and jurists from the third world, to construct an international law which is sensitive to the needs of third world peoples. This body of scholarship has attempted to extend and expand the concerns and materials of international law. The essays in this volume are animated by these same motives at a time when unprecedented issues confront third world peoples, particularly since the contemporary international system appears to be disempowering third world peoples, intensifying inequality between the North and the South, and indeed, importantly, within the North and the South.
TWAIL scholars attempt to look afresh at the history of colonial international law, engage previous trends in third world scholarship in international law, take cognizance of the dramatic changes which have characterized the body of international law in the last few decades from the perspective of third world peoples, record their resistance to unjust and oppressive international laws, and advance new approaches that address their needs and concerns. These are the broad themes and concerns which animate this collection of essays. -
Canadian Constitutional Law, 3rd ed.
Joel Bakan, Patrick Macklem, John Borrows, Richard Moon, Sujit Choudhry, R.C.B. Risk, Robin Elliot, Kent Roach, Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, Carol Rogerson, Donna Greschner, Bruce Ryder, Patricia Hughes, David Schneiderman, Jean Leclair, and Lorraine Weinrib
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British Columbia Moves Backwards on Women's Equality: Submission of the B.C. CEDAW Group to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women on the Occasion of the Committee’s Review of Canada's 5th Report
B.C. CEDAW Group, Shelagh Day, Margot Young, Patricia Cochran, Kelly MacDonald, and Sharon McIvor
British Columbia Moves Backwards on Women’s Equality, prepared by the Poverty and Human Rights Project for 12 women’s and anti-poverty organizations in British Columbia, submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the occasion of the review of Canada’s 5th report on its compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
[From https://povertyandhumanrights.org/2003/01/b-c-cedaw-report-british-columbia-moves-backwards-on-women%EF%BF%BDs-equality-prepared-by-the-poverty-and-human-rights-project-for-12-womens-and-anti-poverty-organizations-in-british-columbia-ja/amp/]
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Jurisprudence for an Interconnected Globe
Catherine Dauvergne
This title was first published in 2003.This book explores the interaction of globalization and the development of law. The framework of the book is established by William Twining, who asks how legal concepts can be generalised within a variety of legal orders. This theme is taken up by a group of leading Australian scholars, who produce essays on international economic law, including financial regulation and human rights, and citizenship, migration and crime, under the headings Globalization and the Laws of Money, Globalization and the Laws of People, Globalization, Cultures and Comparisons. This collection marks an important step towards the construction of a jurisprudence for a connected, but still culturally diverse, globe.
[From Jurisprudence for an Interconnected Globe - 1st Edition - Catherine Da]
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Canada's Failure To Act: Women's Inequality Deepens: 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 5th Report
Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA), Shelagh Day, Margot Young, Michelle Booker, and Karey Brooks
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Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University
Sharon E. Kahn and Dennis Pavlich
Battles over human rights, curriculum issues and hiring and promotion practices reveal to what extent efforts to integrate ideas of academic freedom and the inclusive university have engendered strife and debate on Canadian campuses. For some, the concept of academic freedom has become its own myth – an icon to be revered, an article of faith, an essentialist doctrine with roots firmly planted in tradition. For others, the concept of an inclusive university – a university reflecting the burgeoning diversity of cultures and ideologies in Canadian society – demands realization through the transformation of university structures and practices.
The four parts of Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University explore this conflict. In Clarifying Concepts in Language, Law, and Ideology, contributors examine the terms of reference and clarify the differences between Canadian and American viewpoints. The Changing Culture looks at the conflict between academic freedom and the inclusive university from theoretical, historical, and personal perspectives. The chapters in Academic Freedom in Peril contend that inclusion as a policy within the university has destroyed the consensus necessary for academic life, while the essays in Theoretical and Practical Challenges to the Inclusive University focus on the problems that arise when universities promote a policy of inclusion.
Although no final conclusions are drawn in this thought-provoking book, it provides insight into the relationship between academic freedom and the inclusive university. Lively, impassioned and informed, these essays will appeal to general readers, academics, and students alike.
[From https://www.ubcpress.ca/academic-freedom-and-the-inclusive-university]
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International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 6th ed.
Hugh M. Kindred, Karin Mickelson, Ted L. McDorman, René Provost, Armand L.C. deMestral, Linda C. Reif, and Sharon A. Williams
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Transforming Cultural Conflict in an Age of Complexity
Michelle Lebaron
Focuses on three distinct ways in which culture affects conflicts: culture as a lens that facilitates or blocks effective communication; culture and world view differences as the subject of conflicts; conflicts related to identity and recognition as facets of cultural differences. The author discusses challenges and concrete recommendations for process design in culturally-complex conflicts.
[From Transforming Cultural Conflict in an Age of Complexity - Berghof Foundation]
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