The growing presence in Western society of non-mainstream faiths and spiritual practices poses a dilemma for the law. Building on a thorough history of the legal regulation of fortune-telling laws in four countries,Faith or...
Law materials
- Author:Patrick, JeremySummary:
- Author:Bell, Catherine, Napoleon, ValSummary:
First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law explores First Nations perspectives on cultural heritage and issues of reform within and beyond Western law. Written in collaboration with First Nation partners, it contains seven case studies...
- Author:Flanagan, TomSummary:
Over the last thirty years Canadian policy on aboriginal issues has come to be dominated by an ideology that sees aboriginal peoples as "nations" entitled to specific rights. Indians and Inuit now enjoy legal privileges that...
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Substate nationalism is often studied as a question of political identity and cultural recognition. The same applies to the study of multinational federalism - it is mainly conceived as a tool for the accommodation of minority cultures...
- Author:McNeil, KentSummary:
In 1888, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ruled in the St. Catherine's case. This precedent-setting decision would define the legal contours of Aboriginal title in Canada for almost a hundred years. In Flawed Precedent,...
- Author:Powell, LynnSummary:
Ten years ago, amateur photographer and school bus driver Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home in Ohio. The rolls contained photographs of her eight-year-old daughter Nora, including two of the...
- Author:Baum, Daniel J.Summary:
This book explains our right to freedom of expression, its limits, and how Canadian courts draw the line. Freedom of expression is a fundamental right protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is part of the Constitution...
- Author:Reynolds, JimSummary:
This book tells the story of a First Nation’s single-minded quest for justice. In 1958, the federal government leased part of the small Musqueam Reserve in Vancouver to an exclusive golf club at below market value. When the band members...
- Author:Vanek, DavidSummary:
Soldier, university professor, lawyer, political candidate, and judge; David Vanek's compelling life story has seen him in many roles, all of which are played out in these memoirs. The child of Jewish-Russian immigrants, Vanek...
- Author:Dershowitz, Alan M.Summary:
In this course, Alan Dershowitz focuses on landmark trials and the important, dramatic aspects of the history of the time in which they occurred.
- Author:Wilkinson, Margaret AnnSummary:
Digital records and broad access to the Internet have made it easier for genealogists to gather relevant information from distant sources and to share the information they have gathered. The law, however, remains tied to particular...
- Author:Ferguson, Gerry A.Summary:
This book has been specifically created to make it easier for professors to offer a law school course on global corruption. It is also designed as a resource tool for all persons working in the anti-corruption field. The first chapter...
- Author:Ferguson, GerrySummary:
Created as part of the UNODC's Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative (ACAD), Global Corruption: Law, Theory & Practice is a key resource for lawyers, public officials, and business persons of tomorrow on anti-corruption laws and...
- Author:Manfredi, Christopher P., Maioni, AntoniaSummary:
Health Care and the Charter explores the systematic use of Charter litigation in the area of health care and the policy impact of the resulting judicial decisions. Christopher P. Manfredi and Antonia Maioni examine three of the most...
- Author:Brand, ChristiannaSummary:
The chilling true account of the Sandyford murder case and the sensational nineteenth-century trial that forever changed how homicides are investigated. Jessie M'Lachlan was one of the countless thousands who lived in the tenements...
- Author:Andrews, Lori B.Summary:
Social networks are the defining cultural movement of our time, but they have also greatly accelerated the erosion of our personal privacy rights. Social network and privacy expert Lori Andrews here proposes a plan to protect the future...
- Author:Kaiser-Derrick, ElspethSummary:
Indigenous women continue to be overrepresented in Canadian prisons; research demonstrates how their overincarceration and often extensive experiences of victimization are interconnected with and through ongoing processes of...
- Author:Akhavan, PayamSummary:
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, In Search of a Better World, the 2017 CBC Massey Lecture, is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times. In February of 2017, Amnesty International...
- Author:MacNamara, Jane E.Summary:
A guide to researching your family’s inheritance history in Ontario. Whether your ancestor left hundreds of acres of land, money, or a few modest belongings, the records created when those legacies were distributed can provide valuable...
- Author:Whisnant, ScottSummary:
The riveting true account of a grisly crime and the unprecedented three murder trials faced by Fort Bragg soldier Tim Hennis. On Mother's Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their...