A Genealogy of Terrorism

A Genealogy of Terrorism
Author: Joseph McQuade
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108842151

Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One
Author: Philip Girard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1487530595

A History of Law in Canada is an important three-volume project. Volume One begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, Volume Two covers the half century after Confederation, and Volume Three covers the period from the beginning of the First World War to 1982, with a postscript taking the account to approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada – the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.

Personalized Law

Personalized Law
Author: Omri Ben-Shahar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2021-05-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0197522831

We live in a world of one-size-fits-all law. People are different, but the laws that govern them are uniform. "Personalized Law"---rules that vary person by person---will change that. Here is a vision of a brave new world, where each person is bound by their own personally-tailored law. "Reasonable person" standards would be replaced by a multitude of personalized commands, each individual with their own "reasonable you" rule. Skilled doctors would be held to higher standards of care, the most vulnerable consumers and employees would receive stronger protections, age restrictions for driving or for the consumption of alcohol would vary according the recklessness risk that each person poses, and borrowers would be entitled to personalized loan disclosures tailored to their unique needs and delivered in a format fitting their mental capacity. The data and algorithms to administer personalize law are at our doorstep, and embryos of this regime are sprouting. Should we welcome this transformation of the law? Does personalized law harbor a utopic promise, or would it produce alienation, demoralization, and discrimination? This book is the first to explore personalized law, offering a vision of law and robotics that delegates to machines those tasks humans are least able to perform well. It inquires how personalized law can be designed to deliver precision and justice and what pitfalls the regime would have to prudently avoid. In this book, Omri Ben-Shahar and Ariel Porat not only present this concept in a clear, easily accessible way, but they offer specific examples of how personalized law may be implemented across a variety of real-life applications.

The University of Toronto

The University of Toronto
Author: Martin L. Friedland
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 825
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442615362

Anyone who attended the University or who is interested in the growth of Canada's intellectual heritage will enjoy this compelling and magisterial history.

The Unity of Public Law

The Unity of Public Law
Author: David Dyzenhaus
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2004-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1841134341

This book tackles the relationship between the common law of judicial review, the written constitution and public international law.

Criminal Defense in China

Criminal Defense in China
Author: Sida Liu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-11-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107162416

This book studies the struggles for basic legal freedoms in the work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China's criminal justice system.

Law and Public Order in Space

Law and Public Order in Space
Author: Myres Smith McDougal
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Total Pages: 1147
Release: 1963
Genre: Airspace (International law).
ISBN: 9780300007398

Law of the Land

Law of the Land
Author: Greg Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781487552138

How was it that the Torrens system, a mid-nineteenth-century reform of land titles registration from distant South Australia, gradually replaced the inherited Anglo-Canadian common law system of land registration? In The Law of the Land, Greg Taylor traces the spread of the Torrens system, from its arrival in the far-flung outpost of 1860s Victoria, British Columbia, right up to twenty-first century Ontario. Examining the peculiarity of how this system of land reform swept through some provinces like wildfire, and yet still remains completely unknown in three provinces, Taylor shows how the different histories of various regions in Canada continue to shape the law in the present day. Presenting a concise and illuminating history of land reform, he also demonstrates the power of lobbying, by examining the influence of both moneylenders and lawyers who were the first to introduce the Torrens system to Canada east of the Rockies. An exact and fluent legal history of regional law reforms, The Law of the Land is a fascinating examination of commonwealth influence, and ongoing regional differences in Canada.

Subversive Sites

Subversive Sites
Author: Ratna Kapur
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1996-10
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Offers a feminist analysis of the legal regulation of women in India, looking at both the limitations and possibilities of the role that law can play in women's struggles for social change. Explores the extent to which assumptions about women's identities as wives and mothers limit the promise of legal equality and discusses issues such as the moral and economic regulation of women, the impact of new economic policies, and the Hindu Right. For those involved in feminist legal studies, sociology, gender studies, law, and postcolonial theory. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR