Historical Perspectives on Law and Society in Canada
Historical Perspectives on Law and Society in Canada

Author: Tina Loo

Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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This volume contains seventeen articles on law and society in Canada. The topics range from informal law on the frontier to laws affecting marriage, the poor, Native Peoples, and children to the role of police in enforcing the law. Articles discuss formal law as well as more informal mechanisms that structure social relations and affect the types of laws that are formulated and how they are received. Contributors from the field of history, laws and anthropology are included to ensure that a variety of perspectives are represented.

Sexual Regulation and the Law
Sexual Regulation and the Law

Author: Richard Jochelson

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781772582109

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Does Canada need any more collections about legal regulation of sex and sexuality? Volumes exist dealing with sex work and pornographies. Certainly, volumes abound dealing with emerging sexualities in Canada and new sexual freedoms. This book seeks to do more than tell a story of broad generalities about the law. It forges the links between the history of law and modern iterations of judgments pertaining to that law. Hence the uncomfortable line between Victorian morality (often) and modern regulation, is thematically explored through the book. More modern iterations of sexual regulation in Canada are being deployed and, in this book, the authors explore the interplay between emerging digital technologies and legal regulation. Newer laws in Canada have been drafted to recognize that sexual expression can be a means of violence inherently, and thus an exploration of modern sexual digital expression and its emerging jurisprudence represent a new frontier in the regulation of sex and sexuality in Canada. We explore how legal regulation has responded to these new crimes.This collection is founded upon the editors? joint experiences in teaching in law and society programs in Canada. The authors have witnessed cobbled together curriculums which rely upon a potpourri of sources from law, criminology, criminal justice and law and society disciplines. There exists a growing interest from university students and legal scholars alike for a reader in the context of law reform and legal change in respect of sexual politics and movements in Canada, especially in the context of more modern iterations of crime and sexual politics. Furthermore, while this collection is intended to be educational in the main, it will foster broader discussions in the context of legal regulation of sex and sexuality in Canadian jurisprudence.?

Law and Society
Law and Society

Author: Steven Vago

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-26

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1315443104

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Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable text is fi lled with interesting information, ideas and insights. All materials and supporting statistics have been carefully updated. This edition includes an expanded discussion of the law and First Nations people, recent developments impacting LGBTIQ2S persons, and persons with disabilities and a new section on civil procedures. Each chapter is structured similarly, with an outline, learning objectives, key terms, chapter summaries, critical thinking questions, and an array of additional resources.

A History of Law in Canada, Volume One
A History of Law in Canada, Volume One

Author: Philip Girard

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2018-12-21

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 1487530595

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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.

Law and Society
Law and Society

Author: Steven Vago

Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780132016896

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A readable and comprehensive introduction that examines the key themes in the complex relationships of administrative, criminal and civil law to Canadian society. Law and Society covers the evolution of modern legal systems, current intellectual movements in law, the interplay between law, law-making and social change and the main concerns and issues in the profession and practice of law. With plentiful examples and cases, it also explores recent theories, pertinent new research and emerging trends. Some of the updates to the second edition include information on contemporary issues such as Law and Literature, the Canadian court system, anti-terrorism legislation and privacy issues, drug legislation, divorce, and same-sex marriages. Discussions of aboriginal peoples and restorative justice have been expanded, and there is also a new section on tort law by contributing author Gregory Brown. Critical thinking questions have been added to every chapter.

Recovering Canada
Recovering Canada

Author: John Borrows

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1487516754

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Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes. Indigenous law, however, has continuing relevance for both Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. In his in-depth examination of the continued existence and application of Indigenous legal values, 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. By contrasting and comparing Aboriginal stories and Canadian case law, and interweaving political commentary, Borrows argues that there is a better way to constitute Aboriginal / Crown relations in Canada. He suggests that the application of Indigenous legal perspectives to a broad spectrum of issues that confront us as humans will help Canada recover from its colonial past, and help Indigenous people recover their country. Borrows concludes by demonstrating how Indigenous peoples' law could be more fully and consciously integrated with Canadian law to produce a society where two world views can co-exist and a different vision of the Canadian constitution and citizenship can be created.