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Bar Codes documents twelve years in the lives of a group of Ontario women lawyers. Shakespeare's Portia provides an overarching metaphor, reminding readers of women's attempts to enter into an unfamiliar culture. Sometimes the simple act of robing can enhance a woman lawyer's identity and grant her legitimacy. Like Portia, she is transformed from ?unlessoned girl? to wise counsel. However, women also face a countervailing image, that of the powerful professional gentleman symbolizing excellence.

Women encounter the norms of the legal culture when they enter law school and...

Honouring Social Justice brings together a diverse group of leading legal scholars, criminologists, and sociologists to study numerous contemporary social justice issues. In doing so, the contributors to this collection present a thorough and multifaceted portrait of recent successes and challenges of the criminal justice systems in Canada and elsewhere.

Examining a broad range of vital contemporary social, judicial, and political issues, the essays in this volume pursue topics such as the targeting of marginalized groups, wrongful convictions, gender-based bias in law,...

Lawyers often play pivotal roles in building democracies. Pamela Jordan's engaging study of the Russian bar (advokatura) provides a richly textured portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse, practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-defined roles as contributors to legal reform and defenders of rights in Russia.

Using the historical institutionalism approach as her analytical framework and drawing from comparative literature on legal professions, Jordan argues that the post-Soviet advokatura as an institution gained more, although not complete, autonomy from the...

Behinderungen des Zugangs zu Infrastruktureinrichtungen werden sowohl durch das allgemeine Wettbewerbsrecht als auch durch die sektorspezifischen Regulierungsrechte erfasst. Bei einer parallelen Anwendung dieser Regelungsbereiche besteht jedoch die Gefahr divergierender Behördenentscheidungen. Die Autorin untersucht daher die parallele Anwendung von Wettbewerbs- und Regulierungsrecht auf nationaler sowie auf europäischer Ebene. Sie geht der Frage nach, ob die Anwendung des allgemeinen Wettbewerbsrechts durch die sektorspezifischen Regulierungsvorschriften verdrängt wird. Einen...