Introduction to legal studies
By: edited by Vincent Kazmierski ... [et al.].
Edition: 4th ed.
Series: Canadian legal studies series; Canadian legal studies series
Publisher: Captus Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Concord, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9781553222286
Subjects: Law; Textbooks; Sociological jurisprudence; Droit; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Sociologie juridique
Description: "Introduction to Legal Studies, 4e, is intended to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the study of law and legal institutions for students in undergraduate university and college programs in legal studies. The text examines such topics as Canadian legal culture and institutions; theories of law; law-making processes; the personnel of law; dispute resolution; access to justice; law, the state and citizens; law, crime and social order; law, economy and society; and the relationship between law and social transformation."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1 Social Context: Law in Social Life; title: (a) The Functions of Law / Edward Adamson Hoebel; title: (b) The Cheyenne Way / Karl N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel; title: (c) Conflicts as Property / Nils Christie; title: 2 Cultural Context: Legal Cultures in Canada; title: (a) The Environment of Canada&#x2019;s Judicial System / Peter H. Russell; title: (b) By Reason of Authority or By Authority of Reason / The Honourable Madame Justice Claire L&#x2019;Heureux-Dubé; title: (c) Societal Norms Offer a Frame of Reference / Gérard Bouchard and Charles Taylor; title: (d) Conceptions of History / The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; title: 3 Constitutional Context: Law, the State, and the Constitution; title: (a) Reference re Secession of Quebec; title: (b) Roncarelli v. Duplessis; title: (c) Reference re Firearms Act (Can.); title: 4 Global Context: The Transnational Influence of Law; title: (a) Threat of NAFTA Case Kills Canada&#x2019;s MMT Ban / Shawn McCarthy; title: (b) Prosecuting Mass Rape: Prosecutor v. Dragoljub Kunarac, Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic / Doris Buss; title: (c) Baker v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration); title: (d) Rethinking the Relationship Between International and Domestic Law / Armand de Mestral and Evan Fox-Decent; title: (e) Abdelrazik v. Canada (Foreign Affairs); title: II Looking at Law: The Limits of Law and Legal Understanding; title: 5 Law, Morality, and Justice; title: (a) Tragic Choices / Patrick J. Fitzgerald; title: (b) R. v. Dudley & Stephens; title: (c) Law and Morality / Lord Patrick Devlin; title: (d) R. v. Butler; title: (e) R. v. Latimer; title: 6 Law, Liberalism, and Critics; title: (a) Christie v. York Corp.; title: (b) Delgamuukw v. B.C.; title: (c) Women&#x2019;s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights / Charlotte Bunch; title: (d) Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System / Paul Butler; title: (e) Perpetuating the Cycle of Abuse: Feminist (Mis)use of the Public/Private Dichotomy in the Case of Nixon v. Rape Relief / Ummni Khan; title: (f) Toward a Political Economy of Law / Amy Bartholomew and Susan Boyd; title: 7 Connecting Law and Society; title: (a) The New Legal Scholarship: Problems and Prospects / John Hagan; title: (b) The Pedagogic Challenge / Neil C. Sargent; title: (c) How Does Law Matter in the Constitution of Legal Consciousness? / David M. Engel; title: III “Making Law”: Common Law and Legislation; title: 8 Judicial Decisions and the Common Law; title: (a) Precedents, Statutes and Legal Reasoning / F.L. Morton; title: (b) The Doctrine of Precedent / Patrick Atiyah; title: (c) This Case System: Precedent / Karl Llewellyn; title: (d) I Beg to Differ: Interdisciplinary Questions about Law, Language, and Dissent / Marie-Claire Belleau and Rebecca Johnson; title: 9 Interpreting Legislation; title: (a) Re Rizzo & Rizzo Shoes Ltd.; title: (b) R. v. Mills; title: IV Law, the State, and Citizens; title: 10 Citizenship: Who Belongs? Who Is Protected?; title: (a) Henrietta Muir Edwards et al. v. Canada (A.G.); title: (b) Citizenship and Social Class / T.H. Marshall; title: (c) Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory / Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman; title: (d) The Exploitation of Vulnerability: Dimensions of Citizenship and Rightlessness in Canada&#x2019;s Security Certificate Legislation / Christine Wilke and Paula Willis; title: 11 Protecting Rights: Inside and Outside the Constitution / (a) The Somerset Case / U.K. National Archive; title: (b) Bliss v. Canada (Attorney General); title: (c) Baker v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) [Revisited]; title: (d) The Concept of Human Dignity / Pierre Elliott Trudeau; title: (e) The Legalisation of Politics in Advanced Capitalism: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms / Harry J. Glasbeek and Michael Mandel; title: (f) Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Contradictions and Challenges / Aki-Kwe/Mary Ellen Turpel; title: V Law, Crime, and Social Order; title: 12 What Is Crime?; title: (a) Law, State, and Class Struggle / Alan Hunt; title: (b) Theft of Time: Disciplining Through Science and Law / Laureen Snider; title: 13 The Criminal Law Process; title: (a) The [Nova Scotia] Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution / Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution; title: (b) Understanding Over-representation / Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System; title: (c) Crown Culture and Wrongful Convictions: A Beginning / Melvyn Green; title: (d) Is There a Place for the Victim in the Prosecution Process? / Patricia Clarke; title: (e) The Limits of Restorative Justice / Kathleen Daly; title: VI Law, Economy, and Society; title: 14 Regulating Relationships; title: (a) Max Weber on Law and the Rise of Capitalism; title: David M. Trubek; title: (b) Rudder v. Microsoft Corp.; title: (c) Donoghue v. Stevenson; title: (d) Childs v. Desormeaux; title: (e) Pettkus v. Becker; title: 15 Emerging Challenges for Legal Regulation; title: (a) Regulability of the Cyberspace / Lawrence Lessig; title: (b) Law, Cyberspace and the Role of Nation States; title: Michael Mac Neil; title: (c) The Strange Return of Gyges&#x2019; Ring: An Introduction / Ian Kerr, Valerie Steeves, and Carole Lucock; title: VII Dispute Resolution; title: 16 Negotiating and Bargaining; title: (a) Non-Contractual Relationships in Business: A Preliminary Study / Stewart Macaulay; title: (b) Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce / Robert H. Mnookin; title: 17 Adjudication; title: (a) The Judge and the Adversary System / Neil Brooks; title: (b) &#x2018;Fight&#x2019; Theory vs. &#x2018;Truth&#x2019; Theory / Judge Jerome Frank; title: (c) Lawyer; title: Manufacturer; title: Painter / Franz Kafka; title: (d) Inquiry into Forensic Pathology in Ontario &#x2014; Executive Summary / Honourable Stephen T. Goudge; title: 18 Alternatives to Adjudication/Alternatives within Adjudication; title: (a) The Mediator and the Judge / Torstein Eckhoff; title: (b) Civil Justice Reform and Mandatory Civil Mediation in Saskatchewan: Lessons from a Maturing Program / Julie Macfarlane and Michaela Keet; title: (c) Translating Justice and Therapy: The Drug Treatment Court Networks / Dawn Moore; title: (d) Collaborative Family Law and Gender Inequalities: Balancing Risks and Opportunities / Wanda Wiegers & Michaela Keet; title: 19 The Debate over Use of Settlement-based Dispute Resolution Processes; title: (a) Against Settlement / Owen M. Fiss; title: (b) For Reconciliation / Andrew W. McThenia and Thomas L. Shaffer; title: (c) Understanding the Critiques of Mediation: What Is All the Fuss About? / Neil Sargent; title: VIII Access to Justice; title: 20 Access to Justice: Income Issues; title: (a) Legal Services and the Poor / R.J. Gathercole; title: (b) Small Claims Courts: A Review / Iain Ramsay; title: 21 Access to Justice: Procedural Issues; title: (a) The Challenges We Face / Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.; title: (b) Civil Justice Reform; title: The Toronto Experience / The Honourable Warren K. Winkler, Chief Justice of Ontario; title: (c) Access to Charter Justice and the Rule of Law / Carissima Mathen; title: (d) Legal Victory Still Leaves Rosa Becker Out in Cold / William Marsden; title: IX The Personnel of Law; title: 22 Lawyers, Advocates, and Legal Practice; title: (a) Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy / Duncan Kennedy; title: (b) Canadian Legal Ethics: Ready for the Twenty-First Century at Last / Adam M. Dodek; title: (c) Who is Afraid of the Big Bad Social Constructionists? Or Shedding Light on the Unpardonable Whiteness of the Canadian Legal Profession / Charles C. Smith; title: (d) The Retention of Women in Private Practice Working Group Report; title: Executive Summary / The Law Society of Upper Canada; title: (e) Specialization and the Legal Profession / Alvin Esau; title: (f) Styles of Legal Work / Edwin M. Schur; title: (g) Will the Law Society of Alberta Celebrate its Bicentenary? / Harry W. Arthurs; title: (h) Implementation of Paralegal Regulation in Ontario; title: Introduction / The Law Society of Upper Canada; title: 23 Juries; title: (a) Justice and the Jury / W. Neil Brooks and Anthony N. Doob; title: (b) Morgentaler, Smoling and Scott v. The Queen; title: (c) R. v. Williams; title: 24 Judges; title: (a) Embracing Change: How NJI Adapts to the Changing Role of the Judge / Honourable Justice C. Adèle Kent; title: (b) The Meaning and Scope of Judicial Independence / Bora Laskin; title: (c) Antonio Lamer: Should Judges Hold Their Tongues? / Antonio Lamer; title: (d) Will Women Judges Really Make a Difference? / Justice Bertha Wilson; title: (e) R. v. S. (R.D.); title: (f) Gavels, Microphones Don&#x2019;t Mix / The Globe and Mail Editorial; title: (g) Re Conduct of Honourable Paul Cosgrove of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice / Canadian Judicial Council; title: (h) Stupid Judge Tricks / Sandra Martin; title: 25 Law Enforcement Personnel; title: (a) Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective; title: Canada / George S. Rigakos and Cherie Leung; title: (b) Police Investigating Police; title: Executive Summary / Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP; title: (c) Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto (Municipality) Commissioners of Police; title: X Law and Social Transformation; title: 26 The Charter of Rights and Social Change; title: (a) Ardour in the Court / Rainer Knopff and F.L. Morton; title: (b) The Case for a Strong Court / Judge Rosalie Abella; title: (c) Screening Desire: Same-Sex-Marriage Documentaries, Citizenship, and the Law / B.J. Wray; title: (d) Beyond Self-congratulation: The Charter at 25 in an International Perspective / Louise Arbour and Fannie Lafontaine; title: 27 Critical Perspectives on the Role of Law As an Agent of Change; title: (a) In Memoriam: The Law Commission of Canada, 1997&#x2013;2006 / Nathalie Des Rosiers; title: (b) The Role of Law in Social Transformation: Is a Jurisprudence of Insurgency Possible? / Stephen Brickey and Elizabeth Comack; title: (c) Structure: The Mosaic of Dominion / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis; title: (d) Introduction: The Healing Dimension of Restorative Justice; title: A one-world body / Dennis Sullivan and Larry Tifft; title: (e) Postapartheid Justice: Can Cosmopolitanism and Nation-Building Be Reconciled? / Rosemary Nagy.