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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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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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The 2009 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra
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Economic Rehabilitation: Understanding the Growth in Consumer Proposals
Janis P. Sarra
An Exploration of Fairness examines a concept that is simultaneously simple and extraordinarily complex: fairness. Simple in that we often intuitively understand situations to be fair or unfair. Complex, in that the notion of fairness is very much grounded in where we are situated, including race, gender, class, economic status, country, and life experience. There is considerable scholarship on the concept of fairness, but this volume is unique in the broad range of research disciplines that have come together to examine in depth what is meant by fairness, how it can be achieved, measured, and shared.
From its application in law, economics, and business to how it can be interpreted in cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and kinesiology, it integrates the visual and performing arts as essential features of fairness. Through this interdisciplinary lens, the ethical and normative dimensions of fairness are understood, drawing on its historical and philosophical origins and its role in citizenship and political obligation. Each discipline, each chapter, informs the others to deepen our understanding of fairness.
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Business Organizations: Principles, Policies, and Practice - Robert Yalden, Janis Sarra, Paul D. Paton, Mark Gillen, Ronald Davis, & Mary Condon
Robert Yalden, Janis P. Sarra, Paul D. Paton, Mark Gillen, Ronald B. Davis, and Mary Condon
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Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change
Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd, and Hester Hester Lessard
The image of “backlash” is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain the resistance to feminist initiatives for social change in contemporary culture?
In this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy – child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault – and in a number of institutional sites, such as courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their studies paint a more complicated, often contradictory, picture of feminism, law, and social change than the popular image of backlash suggests.
Reaction and Resistance offers feminists and other activists empirically grounded knowledge that can be used to develop legal and political strategies for change.
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The 2008 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra
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Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism
Margot Young, Susan B. Boyd, Gwen Brodsky, and Shelagh Day
Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country.
The essays in this volume investigate current trends in social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism. They challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the methods of accountability in the field of social and economic justice. Through their analysis of rights advocacy and the interconnectedness of law and politics, the contributors also demonstrate that the fight for social and economic justice is vibrant and of critical importance.
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The 2007 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra
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