Law And Politics

Author : F. L. Morton,Dave Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Courts
ISBN : 1552389901

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Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 4th Edition by F. L. Morton,Dave Snow Pdf

Since the first edition of this popular text was published in 1984, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has transformed the role of the courts in Canadian politics. Newly revised and updated, Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 4th Edition provides an introduction to the issues raised by the changing political role of Canadian judges. It includes over 40 new readings, including two all-new chapters on the Harper Conservatives and Aboriginal Law. Addressing current controversies, including the Canadian Judicial Council's investigations into Justice Robin Camp and Lori Douglas and the Trudeau Government's re-introduction of the Court Challenges Program, this book strives for competing perspectives, with many readings juxtaposed to foster debate. Taking a critical approach to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the growth of judicial power, editors F.L. Morton and Dave Snow provide an even-handed examination of current and ongoing issues. Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 4th Edition is the leading source for students interested in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the growth of judicial power in Canada.

Author : Keith E. Whittington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 0415680352

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Law and Politics by Keith E. Whittington Pdf

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Political Science, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on law and politics.

Author : Judy Fudge
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773631219

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The Class Politics of Law by Judy Fudge Pdf

For nearly fifty years, Professor Harry Glasbeek has been at the forefront of legal scholars and public intellectuals challenging assumptions and understandings about the injustices embedded in the economic, social, political and legal orders of Western capitalist democracies. His writings and teachings have influenced generations of law students, academics and activists. The Class Politics of Law brings together eleven incisive contributions from pre-eminent scholars across several disciplines activated by the same desire for democracy and justice that Glasbeek advances, showing how capitalism shapes the law and how the law protects capitalism. This collection foregrounds a class analysis of the law’s responses to corporate killing, workplace violence, surveillance, worker resistance and income inequality, among other issues.

Author : Frederick Lee Morton
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39076001314595

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Law, Politics and the Judicial Process in Canada by Frederick Lee Morton Pdf

Author : Anne Orford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108480949

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International Law and the Politics of History by Anne Orford Pdf

Explores the ideological, political, and economic stakes of struggles over international law's history and its relation to empire and capitalism.

Author : Harold Laski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351487740

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Studies in Law and Politics by Harold Laski Pdf

The essays that comprise Studies in Law and Politics are by and large academic. But Laski had a purpose in addition to the purely scholarly: he was eagerly pursuing possibilities for social and political change. Laski sought tirelessly for opportunities to act on those possibilities and, as is the case throughout his work, his academic and political purposes have no clear boundary between them.Studies in Law of Politics was published at a crucial juncture in Laski's ideological metamorphosis. During this period he had become increasingly worried that socialists might not be able to achieve the growth of working-class power. Although the essays contained in the volume cover a wide range of topics, and a wide span of time since the mid-1920s, he brought them into unity by a common approach. Though he does not make his unifying premise immediately evident to his readers, he clearly meant to chart the growth of power of those who had previously been without influence. His goal also was to identify the problems facing growth in a highly modernized society.Studies in Law and Politics reveals Laski's growing realization that the road to socialism might be more difficult than what he had believed when he wrote his pluralist works. The book reflects the mind of a thinker who was not content to write exclusively as an academic or a political activist. His view was that, while progressive reforms have been achieved in the past, they are not easily accomplished, and obstacles to further reforms should not be underestimated. This sober work offers much insight into Laski's intellectual development, as well as the times about which he wrote.

Author : Mauro Zamboni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783540739265

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Law and Politics by Mauro Zamboni Pdf

This book reconstructs and classifies, according to ideal-typical models, the different positions taken by the major contemporary legal theories as to whether and how law relates to politics. It presents a possible explanation as to why different legal theories, though often reaching diametric results, somehow must still begin from common basic points.

Author : Martti Koskenniemi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316554

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The Politics of International Law by Martti Koskenniemi Pdf

Today international law is everywhere. Wars are fought and opposed in its name. It is invoked to claim rights and to challenge them, to indict or support political leaders, to distribute resources and to expand or limit the powers of domestic and international institutions. International law is part of the way political (and economic) power is used, critiqued, and sometimes limited. Despite its claim for neutrality and impartiality, it is implicit in what is just, as well as what is unjust in the world. To understand its operation requires shedding its ideological spell and examining it with a cold eye. Who are its winners, and who are its losers? How - if at all - can it be used to make a better or a less unjust world? In this collection of essays Professor Martti Koskenniemi, a well-known practitioner and a leading theorist and historian of international law, examines the recent debates on humanitarian intervention, collective security, protection of human rights and the 'fight against impunity' and reflects on the use of the professional techniques of international law to intervene politically. The essays both illustrate and expand his influential theory of the role of international law in international politics. The book is prefaced with an introduction by Professor Emmanuelle Jouannet (Sorbonne Law School), which locates the texts in the overall thought and work of Martti Koskenniemi.

Author : Yan Campagnolo
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774867115

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Behind Closed Doors by Yan Campagnolo Pdf

In an era where government transparency and accountability are considered fundamental values, does Cabinet secrecy still have a place? Behind Closed Doors is the first comprehensive exploration of the legal and political rules protecting the confidentiality of collective decision-making at the highest executive level of the Canadian state. Yan Campagnolo defends Cabinet secrecy as essential to the proper functioning of responsible government while criticizing its associated statutory provisions as excessively broad and possibly unconstitutional. Comparing Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, this meticulous work proposes feasible, specific reforms that would achieve a better balance between transparency and confidentiality.

Author : Eileen Braman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813928371

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Law, Politics, and Perception by Eileen Braman Pdf

Are judges' decisions more likely to be based on personal inclinations or legal authority? The answer, Eileen Braman argues, is both. Law, Politics, and Perception brings cognitive psychology to bear on the question of the relative importance of norms of legal reasoning versus decision markers' policy preferences in legal decision-making. While Braman acknowledges that decision makers' attitudes—or, more precisely, their preference for policy outcomes—can play a significant role in judicial decisions, she also believes that decision-makers' belief that they must abide by accepted rules of legal analysis significantly limits the role of preferences in their judgements. To reconcile these competing factors, Braman posits that judges engage in "motivated reasoning," a biased process in which decision-makers are unconsciously predisposed to find legal authority that is consistent with their own preferences more convincing than those that go against them. But Braman also provides evidence that the scope of motivated reasoning is limited. Objective case facts and accepted norms of legal reasoning can often inhibit decision makers' ability to reach conclusions consistent with their preferences.

Author : Austin Sarat,Lawence Douglas,Martha Merrill Umphrey
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804783903

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The Secrets of Law by Austin Sarat,Lawence Douglas,Martha Merrill Umphrey Pdf

The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes. The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and legal practices—including the question of transparency in democratic processes during the Bush Administration, the principle of public justice in England's response to the war on terror, and the evidentiary law of spousal privilege. The second half of the book explores legal, literary, and filmic representations of secrets in law, focusing on how knowledge about particular cases and crimes is often rendered opaque to those attempting to access and decode the information. Those invested in transparency must ultimately cultivate a capacity to read between the lines, decode the illegible, and acknowledge both the virtues and dangers of the unknowable.

Author : Leslie Johns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108833707

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Politics and International Law by Leslie Johns Pdf

Teaches how and why states make, break, and uphold international law using accessible explanations and contemporary international issues.

Author : Herbert Jacob,Erhard Blankenburg,Herbert M. Kritzer,Doris Marie Provine,Joseph Sanders
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300063792

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Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective by Herbert Jacob,Erhard Blankenburg,Herbert M. Kritzer,Doris Marie Provine,Joseph Sanders Pdf

This comprehensive book compares the intersection of political forces and legal practices in five industrial nations--the United States, England, France, Germany, and Japan. The authors, eminent political scientists and legal scholars, investigate how constitutional courts function in each country, how the adjudication of criminal justice and the processing of civil disputes connect legal systems to politics, and how both ordinary citizens and large corporations use the courts. For each of the five countries, the authors discuss the structure of courts and access to them, the manner in which politics and law are differentiated or amalgamated, whether judicial posts are political prizes or bureaucratic positions, the ways in which courts are perceived as legitimate forms for addressing political conflicts, the degree of legal consciousness among citizens, the kinds of work lawyers do, and the manner in which law and courts are used as social control mechanisms. The authors find that although the extent to which courts participate in policymaking varies dramatically from country to country, judicial responsiveness to perceived public problems is not a uniquely American phenomenon.

Author : Leif Dahlberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317396543

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Spacing Law and Politics by Leif Dahlberg Pdf

Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the emergence and the development of the juridical. In an analysis that stretches from ancient Greece, through late antiquity and early modern and modern Europe, and on to the contemporary courtroom, it considers legal and philosophical texts, artistic and literary works, as well as judicial practices, in order to elicit and document a series of critical moments in the history of juridical space. Offering a more nuanced understanding of law than that found in traditional philosophical, political or social accounts of legal history, Dahlberg forges a critical account of the intimate relations between law and politics that shows how juridical space is determined and conditioned in ways that are integral to the very functioning – and malfunctioning – of law.

Author : Joseph E. David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108499682

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Kinship, Law and Politics by Joseph E. David Pdf

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.