Author : Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : OCLC:49089791
The Constitution Act, 1982
Canada
Legal Rights
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A Consolidation of the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248265417
A Consolidation of the Constitution Acts 1867 to 1982 by Anonim Pdf
The Rights of Nature
David R. Boyd
Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 17-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781770909663
The Rights of Nature by David R. Boyd Pdf
An important and timely recipe for hope for humans and all forms of life Palila v Hawaii. New ZealandÕs Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes, a movement of immense import has been building Ñ in courtrooms, legislatures, and communities across the globe. Cultures and laws are transforming to provide a powerful new approach to protecting the planet and the species with whom we share it. Lawyers from California to New York are fighting to gain legal rights for chimpanzees and killer whales, and lawmakers are ending the era of keeping these intelligent animals in captivity. In Hawaii and India, judges have recognized that endangered species Ñ from birds to lions Ñ have the legal right to exist. Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems Ñ rivers, forests, mountains, and more Ñ have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. In The Rights of Nature, noted environmental lawyer David Boyd tells this remarkable story, which is, at its heart, one of humans as a species finally growing up. Read this book and your world view will be altered forever.
Business and Human Rights as Law
Yousuf Aftab,Audrey Mocle
Author : Yousuf Aftab,Audrey Mocle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 0433478608
Business and Human Rights as Law by Yousuf Aftab,Audrey Mocle Pdf
"This book is about corporate social responsibility and business & human rights. It discusses international law and how the emerging litigation thereof."--
Legal Rights for Rivers
Erin O'Donnell
Author : Erin O'Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429889608
Legal Rights for Rivers by Erin O'Donnell Pdf
In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA. Understanding the implications of creating legal rights for rivers is an urgent challenge for both water resource management and environmental law. Giving rivers legal rights means the law can see rivers as legal persons, thus creating new legal rights which can then be enforced. When rivers are legally people, does that encourage collaboration and partnership between humans and rivers, or establish rivers as another competitor for scarce resources? To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers (EWMs). These organisations have legal personality, and have been active in water resource management for over two decades. EWMs operate by acquiring water rights from irrigators in rivers where there is insufficient water to maintain ecological health. EWMs can compete with farmers for access to water, but they can also strengthen collaboration between traditionally divergent users of the aquatic environment, such as environmentalists, recreational fishers, hunters, farmers, and hydropower. This book explores how EWMs use the opportunities created by giving nature legal rights, such as the ability to participate in markets, enter contracts, hold property, and enforce those rights in court. However, examination of the EWMs unearths a crucial and unexpected paradox: giving legal rights to nature may increase its legal power, but in doing so it can weaken community support for protecting the environment in the first place. The book develops a new conceptual framework to identify the multiple constructions of the environment in law, and how these constructions can interact to generate these unexpected outcomes. It explores EWMs in the USA and Australia as examples, and assesses the implications of creating legal rights for rivers for water governance. Lessons from the EWMs, as well as early lessons from the new ‘river persons,’ show how to use the law to improve river protection and how to begin to mitigate the problems of the paradox.
The Law Is (Not) for Kids
Ned Lecic
Author : Ned Lecic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-30
Category : Children
ISBN : 1771992379
The Law Is (Not) for Kids by Ned Lecic Pdf
"In this practical guide to the law for Canada's young people, Ned Lecic and Marvin Zuker provide an all-encompassing manual meant to empower and educate children and youth. The authors address questions about how rights and laws affect the lives of young people at home, at school, at work, and in their relationships and draw attention to the many ways in which a person's life can intersect with the law. Deliberately refraining from moralizing, the authors instead advocate for children and their rights and provide examples of how young people can get them enforced. In addition to being critical information for youth about citizenship, The Law is (Not) for Kids is a valuable resource for teachers, counsellors, lawyers, and all those who support youth in their encounters with the law."--
It's Legal but It Ain't Right
Nikos Passas,Neva R. Goodwin
Author : Nikos Passas,Neva R. Goodwin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780472026197
It's Legal but It Ain't Right by Nikos Passas,Neva R. Goodwin Pdf
Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research priorities. It's Legal but It Ain't Right tackles these issues, plus the ethical ambiguities of legalized gambling, the firearms trade, the fast food industry, the pesticide industry, private security companies, and more. Aiming to identify industries and goods that undermine our societal values and to hold them accountable for their actions, this collection makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing discussion of ethics in our time. This accessible exploration of corporate legitimacy and crime will be important reading for advocates, journalists, students, and anyone interested in the dichotomy between law and legitimacy. Nikos Passas is Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Neva Goodwin is Co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University.
Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
René Provost,Colleen Sheppard
Author : René Provost,Colleen Sheppard
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789400747104
Dialogues on Human Rights and Legal Pluralism by René Provost,Colleen Sheppard Pdf
Human rights have transformed the way in which we conceive the place of the individual within the community and in relation to the state in a vast array of disciplines, including law, philosophy, politics, sociology, geography. The published output on human rights over the last five decades has been enormous, but has remained tightly bound to a notion of human rights as dialectically linking the individual and the state. Because of human rights’ dogged focus on the state and its actions, they have very seldom attracted the attention of legal pluralists. Indeed, some may have viewed the two as simply incompatible or relating to wholly distinct phenomena. This collection of essays is the first to bring together authors with established track records in the fields of legal pluralism and human rights, to explore the ways in which these concepts can be mutually reinforcing, delegitimizing, or competing. The essays reveal that there is no facile conclusion to reach but that the question opens avenues which are likely to be mined for years to come by those interested in how human rights can affect the behaviour of individuals and institutions.
Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights
Michael Ashley Stein,Faraaz Mahomed,Vikram Patel,Charlene Sunkel
Author : Michael Ashley Stein,Faraaz Mahomed,Vikram Patel,Charlene Sunkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108838856
Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights by Michael Ashley Stein,Faraaz Mahomed,Vikram Patel,Charlene Sunkel Pdf
Provides practical solutions for ending coercion in mental health care and realizing the universal right to legal capacity.
Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights
Thomas F. Burke
Author : Thomas F. Burke
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520243231
Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights by Thomas F. Burke Pdf
"Burke drills deep into America's unique culture of litigation and is rewarded with a powerful insight: it is not the public or even lawyers that are so darn litigious, but American law itself. This meticulous, dispassionate book stands not only to advance the debate but—I hope—to reshape it."—Jonathan Rauch, author of Government's End: Why Washington Stopped Working "Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is a fascinating study of the American penchant for public policies that rely on lawsuits to get things done. Burke's analysis is insightful and original. This book compellingly shows that litigious policies have deep roots in our Constitution, culture, and politics."—Charles Epp, author of The Rights Revolution: Lawyers, Activists, and Supreme Courts in Comparative Perspective "Burke's authoritative book demonstrates that the highly litigious American system is not an isolated anomaly but in fact fits in with deeply-rooted elements of American political culture. Where citizens of other countries rely on expert or bureaucratic judgment to resolve disputes, Americans turn to the courts. Equally novel and compelling, Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights marshals an impressive set of evidence and delivers a refreshingly well-written look at the state of American litigation."—Frank R. Baumgartner, co-author of Agendas and Instability in American Politics
“Race,” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada
James W. St. G. Walker,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Author : James W. St. G. Walker,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040556667
“Race,” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada by James W. St. G. Walker,Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Pdf
Drawing on four cases relating to race between 1914 and 1955, Walker (history, U. of Waterloo) explores the role of the Canadian Supreme Court and the law in racializing Canadian society. He demonstrates that the justices were expressing the prevailing common sense in their legal decisions, and argues that the law has created the conditions for the country's chronic racism. He projects past and current trends into the future. Co-published by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Canadian card order number: C97-931762-2. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Lawyers Beyond Borders
Maria Armoudian
Author : Maria Armoudian
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472038855
Lawyers Beyond Borders by Maria Armoudian Pdf
Despite international conventions and human rights declarations, millions of people have suffered and continue to suffer torture, slavery, or violent deaths, with no remedy or recourse. They have fallen, in essence, “below the law,” outside of law’s protection. Often violated by their own governments, sometimes with support from transnational corporations, or nations benefiting from human rights violations, how can these victims find justice? Lawyers Beyond Borders reveals the inner workings of the advances and retreats in the quest for redress and restoration of human rights for those whom international legal-political systems have failed. The process of justice begins in the US, with a handful of human rights lawyers steeped in the American tradition of advancing civil rights through civil litigation. As the civil rights movement gained traction and an ample supply of lawyers, this small cadre turned their attention toward advancing international human rights, via the US legal system. They sought to build another piece of the rights revolution, this time for survivors of egregious human rights violations in faraway lands. These cases were among the most unlikely to be slated for victory: The abuses occurred abroad; the victims are aliens, usually with few, if any, resources; the perpetrators are politically powerful, resourced, and well connected, often members of governments, militaries, or multinational corporations. The legal and political systems’ structures are mostly stacked against these survivors, many who bear the scars of trauma and terror. Lawyers Beyond Borders is about agency. It is about how, in the face of powerful interests and seemingly insurmountable obstacles—political, psychological, economic, geographical, and physical—a small group of lawyers and survivors navigated a terrain of daunting barriers to begin building, case-by-case, new pathways to justice for those who otherwise would have none.
Braiding Legal Orders
John Borrows,Larry Chartrand,Oonagh E. Fitzgerald,Risa Schwartz
Author : John Borrows,Larry Chartrand,Oonagh E. Fitzgerald,Risa Schwartz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781928096832
Braiding Legal Orders by John Borrows,Larry Chartrand,Oonagh E. Fitzgerald,Risa Schwartz Pdf
Implementation in Canada of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is a pivotal opportunity to explore the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples' own laws, and Canada's constitutional narratives. Two significant statements by the current Liberal government - the May 2016 address by Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations and the September 2017 address to the United Nations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - have endorsed UNDRIP and committed Canada to implementing it as “a way forward” on the path to genuine nation-to-nation relationships with Indigenous peoples. In response, these essays engage with the legal, historical, political, and practical aspects of UNDRIP implementation. Written by Indigenous legal scholars and policy leaders, and guided by the metaphor of braiding international, domestic, and Indigenous laws into a strong, unified whole composed of distinct parts, the book makes visible the possibilities for reconciliation from different angles and under different lenses.
Seven Absolute Rights
Ryan Alford
Author : Ryan Alford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780228002239
Seven Absolute Rights by Ryan Alford Pdf
For 150 years, Canada's constitutional order has been both flexible and durable, ensuring peace, order, and good government while protecting the absolute rights at the core of the rule of law. In this era of transnational terrorism and proliferating emergency powers, it is essential to revisit how and why our constitutional order developed particular limits on the government's powers, which remain in force despite war, rebellion, and insurrection. Seven Absolute Rights surveys the historical foundations of Canada's rule of law and the ways they reinforce the Constitution. Ryan Alford provides a gripping narrative of constitutional history, beginning with the medieval and early modern context of Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and the constitutional settlement of the Glorious Revolution. His reconstruction ends with a detailed examination of two pre-Confederation crises: the rebellions of 1837–38 and the riots of 1849, which, as he demonstrates, provide the missing constitutionalist context to the framing of the British North America Act. Through this accessible exploration of key events and legal precedents, Alford offers a distinct perspective on the substantive principles of the rule of law embedded in Canada's Constitution. In bringing constitutional history to life, Seven Absolute Rights reveals the history and meaning of these long-forgotten protections and shows why they remain fundamental to our freedom in the twenty-first century.
Poverty
Margot Young
Author : Margot Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Basic needs
ISBN : UOM:39015068812620
Poverty by Margot Young Pdf
Recent years have seen the retrenchment of Canadian social programs and the restructuring of the welfare state along neo-liberal lines. Social programs at both the federal and the provincial levels have been cut back, eliminated, or recast in exclusionary and punitive forms. Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism responds to these changes by examining the ideas and practices of human rights, citizenship, legislation, and institution-building that are crucial to addressing poverty in this country. The essays in this volume investigate current trends in social, political, and legal anti-poverty activism. They challenge prevailing assumptions about the role of governments and the methods of accountability in the field of social and economic justice. Through their analysis of rights advocacy and the interconnectedness of law and politics, the contributors also demonstrate that the fight for social and economic justice is vibrant and of critical importance.
