The domestic processing of human rights complaints attracts a great deal of public attention and interest. Yet despite this scrutiny, there is still much below the surface that we don't know. When people contact the human rights commission or a human rights lawyer, how do they think about and use human rights discourse? How do the legal professionals involved characterize the experiences they describe? How are complaints turned into cases? Can administrative systems be both effective and fair?
Defining Rights and Wrongs investigates the day-to-day practices of low-level...
The domestic processing of human rights complaints attracts a great deal of public attention and interest. Yet despite this scrutiny, there is stil...
The image of ?backlash? is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain the resistance to feminist initiatives for social change in contemporary culture?
In Reaction and Resistance, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy ? child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault ? and in a number of institutional sites: courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their...
The image of ?backlash? is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain...
This book presents the work of a new generation of critical criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and political contexts of the discipline in Canada. Breaking away from mainstream criminology and law-and-order discourses, the authors offer a spectrum of theoretical approaches to criminal justice - from governmentality to feminist criminology, from critical realism to anarchism - and they propose novel approaches to topics ranging from genocide to white-collar crime. By posing crucial questions and attempting to define what criminology should be, this book will shape...
This book presents the work of a new generation of critical criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and political contexts of t...
Since 9/11 and the onset of the ?war on terror, ? the principal challenge confronting liberal democracies has been to balance freedom with security and individual with collective rights. This book sheds new light on the evolution of human rights norms in liberal democracies by charting the activism of four Canadian NGOs on issues of refugee rights, hate speech, and the death penalty, including their use of difficult, often controversial legal cases as platforms to assert human rights principles and shape judicial policy-making. The struggles of these NGOs reveal not only the fragility but...
Since 9/11 and the onset of the ?war on terror, ? the principal challenge confronting liberal democracies has been to balance freedom with security...
Diese außergewöhnliche Ethnographie internationalen Rechts gibt Einblick in die 'N-real world' der internationalen Überwachung von Menschenrechten. Am Beispiel des Antirassismus-Ausschusses der Vereinten Nationen analysiert die Autorin Menschenrechtsabkommen als "living law" zwischen Rechtsanwendung und Diplomatie.
Diese außergewöhnliche Ethnographie internationalen Rechts gibt Einblick in die 'N-real world' der internationalen Überwachung von Menschenrechten....
Some assume that Canada earned a place among postcolonial states in1982 when it took charge of its Constitution. Yet despite the formalrecognition accorded to Aboriginal and treaty rights at that time, Indigenous peoples continue to argue that they are still beingcolonized. Grace Woo assesses this allegation using a binary model thatdistinguishes colonial from postcolonial legality. She argues that twolegal paradigms governed the expansion of the British Empire, one basedon popular consent, the other on conquest and the power to command.During the twentieth century, international law formally...
Some assume that Canada earned a place among postcolonial states in1982 when it took charge of its Constitution. Yet despite the formalrecognition acc...
The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law, in the constitutions of democratic states?
In The Environmental Rights Revolution, David Boyd, one of Canada's leading environmental lawyers, answers this question by moving beyond theoretical debate to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right to a healthy environment in constitutions. His analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100...
The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: Should rights to cle...
When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical frameworks. Queer theorists typically focus on sexual liberty but tend not to consider issues such as sexual violence; feminist theories focus on violence but often ignore the joy of sexuality. Craig examines the Supreme Court of Canada's approach to sexuality to assess the possibility of devising a legal theory of sexuality that can embrace both the good and the bad, ensuring equality without assimilation, diversity without exclusion, and liberty without suffering. Blending...
When legal scholars or judges approach the subject of sexuality, they are often constrained by existing theoretical frameworks. Queer theorists typ...
In February 2006, First Nations protesters blocked workers from entering a housing development in southern Ontario. The protest highlighted the issue of land rights and sparked a series of ongoing events known as the ?Caledonia Crisis.? This powerful account of the dispute links the actions of police, officials, and locals to non-Aboriginal discourses about law, landscape, and identity. DeVries encourages non-Aboriginal Canadians to reconsider their assumptions, to view ?facts? such as the rule of law as culturally specific notions that prevent truly equitable dialogue. She seeks out...
In February 2006, First Nations protesters blocked workers from entering a housing development in southern Ontario. The protest highlighted the iss...
Relational theory has recently gained prominence in philosophy, women's and gender studies, and bioethics. Yet it has not madesubstantial inroads into many areas of law and policy. BeingRelational seeks to remedy this situation by bringing thispowerful theoretical framework to the field of health law andpolicy. At the heart of relational theory lies the idea that the human selfis fundamentally constituted in terms of its relations to others. Forrelational theorists, the self not only lives in relationship with andto others, but also owes its very existence to such relationships. Inthis...
Relational theory has recently gained prominence in philosophy, women's and gender studies, and bioethics. Yet it has not madesubstantial inroads into...
