All about Law

All about Law
Author: Terry G. Murphy
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780176354848

Decolonizing Law

Decolonizing Law
Author: Sujith Xavier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2021-05-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 100039655X

This book brings together Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives on the theory and practice of decolonizing law. Colonialism, imperialism, and settler colonialism continue to affect the lives of racialized communities and Indigenous Peoples around the world. Law, in its many iterations, has played an active role in the dispossession and disenfranchisement of colonized peoples. Law and its various institutions are the means by which colonial, imperial, and settler colonial programs and policies continue to be reinforced and sustained. There are, however, recent and historical examples in which law has played a significant role in dismantling colonial and imperial structures set up during the process of colonization. This book combines usually distinct Indigenous, Third World and Settler perspectives in order to take up the effort of decolonizing law: both in practice and in the concern to distance and to liberate the foundational theories of legal knowledge and academic engagement from the manifestations of colonialism, imperialism and settler colonialism. Including work by scholars from the Global South and North, this book will be of interest to academics, students and others interested in the legacy of colonial and settler law, and its overcoming.

Unjust by Design

Unjust by Design
Author: S. Ronald Ellis
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774824778

Unjust by Design describes a system in need of major restructuring. Written by a respected critic, it presents a modern theory of administrative justice fit for that purpose. It also provides detailed blueprints for the changes the author believes would be necessary if justice were to in fact assume its proper role in Canada’s administrative justice system.

Indigenous Legal Traditions

Indigenous Legal Traditions
Author: Law Commission of Canada
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774855770

The essays in this book present important perspectives on the role of Indigenous legal traditions in reclaiming and preserving the autonomy of Aboriginal communities and in reconciling the relationship between these communities and Canadian governments. Although Indigenous peoples had their own systems of law based on their social, political, and spiritual traditions, under colonialism their legal systems have often been ignored or overruled by non-Indigenous laws. Today, however, these legal traditions are being reinvigorated and recognized as vital for the preservation of the political autonomy of Aboriginal nations and the development of healthy communities.

A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence

A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence
Author: Helge Dedek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108841724

Inspired by comparative law scholar Patrick Glenn's work, an international group of legal scholars explores the state of the discipline.

Recovering Canada

Recovering Canada
Author: John Borrows
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780802085016

John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach.

The Canadian Legal System

The Canadian Legal System
Author: Gerald L. Gall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 713
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The 5th edition has been completely updated, including significant additions to the sections on military law, changes to the provincial court structure (i.e., simplified procedures, case management, and court reform), incorporation of formal and informal ADR, and key charter and constitutional jurisprudence that continues to shape the law in Canada."--Pub. desc.