Equal Before The Law

Author : Ilias Bantekas,Michael Ashley Stein,Dimitris Anastasiou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192538680

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The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by Ilias Bantekas,Michael Ashley Stein,Dimitris Anastasiou Pdf

This treatise is a detailed article-by-article examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Each article of the CRPD contains a methodical analysis of the preparatory works, followed by an exhaustive examination of the contents of each article based on case law and concluding observations from the CRPD Committee, judgments from national and international courts and tribunals, pertinent UN and other reports, the key literature on the article under review. The volume features commentary from a broad range of scholars across a variety of disciplines in order to provide a comprehensive study of the legal, psychological, education, sociological, and other aspects of the CPRD. This encyclopaedic commentary on the CRPD effectively covers all the issues arising from international disability law and practice, and will be an ideal resource for all working in the field.

Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:49089791

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The Constitution Act, 1982 by Canada Pdf

Author : Linda Daniele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Equality before the law
ISBN : 0731356128

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Equality Before the Law Bench Book by Linda Daniele Pdf

Author : Jeanne Marie Ford
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502632081

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Equality Under the Law by Jeanne Marie Ford Pdf

In our society, laws and rights apply to everyone equally. This book explores what that means, how the Constitution outlines that right, and ways equality can be experienced and upheld in everyday life.

Author : Omri Ben-Shahar,Ariel Porat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780197522837

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Personalized Law by Omri Ben-Shahar,Ariel Porat Pdf

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.

Author : John Mercer Langston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : African Americans
ISBN : PRNC:32101078161179

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A Speech on "Equality Before the Law" by John Mercer Langston Pdf

Author : Frederick Wilmot-Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674243736

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Equal Justice by Frederick Wilmot-Smith Pdf

A philosophical and legal argument for equal access to good lawyers and other legal resources. Should your risk of wrongful conviction depend on your wealth? We wouldn’t dream of passing a law to that effect, but our legal system, which permits the rich to buy the best lawyers, enables wealth to affect legal outcomes. Clearly justice depends not only on the substance of laws but also on the system that administers them. In Equal Justice, Frederick Wilmot-Smith offers an account of a topic neglected in theory and undermined in practice: justice in legal institutions. He argues that the benefits and burdens of legal systems should be shared equally and that divergences from equality must issue from a fair procedure. He also considers how the ideal of equal justice might be made a reality. Least controversially, legal resources must sometimes be granted to those who cannot afford them. More radically, we may need to rethink the centrality of the market to legal systems. Markets in legal resources entrench pre-existing inequalities, allocate injustice to those without means, and enable the rich to escape the law’s demands. None of this can be justified. Many people think that markets in health care are unjust; it may be time to think of legal services in the same way.

Author : Timo Makkonen
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004217058

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Equal in Law, Unequal in Fact by Timo Makkonen Pdf

This book explores the causes, forms and consequences of racial discrimination as well as the international and European legal responses thereto. It explains why the law fails to eliminate discrimination and suggests ways forward.

Author : Michael P Foran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Equal rights amendments
ISBN : 1509964975

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Equality Before the Law by Michael P Foran Pdf

This book presents a defence of the value of equality within law which is neither purely formal nor an entirely speculative theory of justice. It does this by combining a theoretical with a doctrinal project. At the theoretical level, it argues that there is a distinct and meaningful conception of equality before the law which can be separated from concerns of distributive justice. It therefore rejects the claim that legal equality is merely formal. Rather, it is grounded in the equal moral status of all legal subjects. The demand that individuals be treated in accordance with the principle of equality before the law, then, requires that they not be treated in ways that would deny their equal moral standing. This principle of moral equality is the fundamental normative basis of the rule of law. This general claim is applied, in the second half of the book, to antidiscrimination law. It is argued here that the wrong of wrongful discrimination consists in implicit or explicit denial of the equal moral status of legal subjects. This is also a core wrong that the common law seeks to remedy via judicial review and is thus intimately tied to legality itself. In the final chapter, these two strands are brought together to defend the idea that law is a public asset which must be directed towards advancing the best interests of those it governs. This kind of equality principle, one which sets the outermost limits of the use of public power, must look beyond individual rights claims. It manifests a fundamental commitment to substantive equality - manifest in a commitment to collective flourishing - without tying it to group-based distributive concerns which arise from distinct social and historical contexts and require the exercise of political authority to choose among a range of plausible options for their resolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:467193920

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter W. Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 0779896548

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Constitutional Law of Canada by Peter W. Hogg Pdf

Author : Aldo Schiavone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674275713

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The Pursuit of Equality in the West by Aldo Schiavone Pdf

One of the world’s foremost historians of Western political and legal thought proposes a bold new model for thinking about equality at a time when its absence threatens democracies everywhere. How much equality does democracy need to survive? Political thinkers have wrestled with that question for millennia. Aristotle argued that some are born to command and others to obey. Antiphon believed that men, at least, were born equal. Later the Romans upended the debate by asking whether citizens were equals not in ruling but in standing before the law. Aldo Schiavone guides us through these and other historical thickets, from the first democracy to the present day, seeking solutions to the enduring tension between democracy and inequality. Turning from Antiquity to the modern world, Schiavone shows how the American and the French revolutions attempted to settle old debates, introducing a new way of thinking about equality. Both the French revolutionaries and the American colonists sought democracy and equality together, but the European tradition (British Labour, Russian and Eastern European Marxists, and Northern European social democrats) saw formal equality—equality before the law—as a means of obtaining economic equality. The American model, in contrast, adopted formal equality while setting aside the goal of economic equality. The Pursuit of Equality in the West argues that the United States and European models were compatible with industrial-age democracy, but neither suffices in the face of today’s technological revolution. Opposing both atomization and the obsolete myths of the collective, Schiavone thinks equality anew, proposing a model founded on neither individualism nor the erasure of the individual but rather on the universality of the impersonal human, which coexists with the sea of differences that makes each of us unique.

Author : Richard Moon
Publisher : Essentials of Canadian Law
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 1552213641

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Freedom of Conscience and Religion by Richard Moon Pdf

When the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was enacted in 1982, the first of its fundamental freedoms seemed less significant and less interesting than many of its other rights. However, the Salman Rushdie affair, the 9/11 attacks, and later the publication of the "Danish Cartoons" helped to move religion or religious difference to the forefront of public consciousness. These events seemed to confirm that religion, or at least particular religions, represented a threat to the values of liberal-democratic society. Religious freedom issues that may have been minor and easily resolved "on the ground" were increasingly seen through this lens of intractable conflict, and as opening the door to a broader threat to Western democracy. In Canada, anxiety about religion has been far less acute than in Europe or in the United States. Nevertheless, concern about the character of religion has shaped the public reaction to religious diversity and freedom. This has been most powerfully so in Quebec where, as in Europe, national identity remains a concern, and the political role of the Catholic church in the recent past has caused many to be wary of the visibility of religion in the public sphere. The book reviews the basic history of religious freedom in Canada; looks at state support for religion, including the place of religious practices and symbols in public institutions and the role of religious values in public decision making; the restriction or accommodation of religious practices by state action; religious restriction in particular contexts; state support for religious schools; freedom of religion in the context of the family, and in particular, the parent-child relationship; and freedom of conscience component of section 2(a)

Author : Francis Graham Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781576078518

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Equal Protection by Francis Graham Lee Pdf

An introductory survey of the government's role in America's continuing drive for equality. Today's lingering inequalities, particularly the "American dilemma" of racism, runs throughout U.S. history. Equal Protection provides readers with a historical overview of the controversies over the issue of equality, an understanding of how government-and, particularly, the courts and Congress-has reacted to these controversies, and the role these issues have played in shaping U.S. society. This volume follows the push for equal treatment regardless of age, gender, disabilities, economic status, or sexual orientation. It focuses on legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, and political initiatives and movements such as The Great Society, the ERA, and the War on Poverty. Here are American's interpretations of equal rights, then and now.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248265417

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A Consolidation of the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 by Anonim Pdf