Locating Law

Author : Elizabeth Comack
Publisher : Halifax, [N.S.] : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Equality before the law
ISBN : 1552662128

Get Book

Locating Law by Elizabeth Comack Pdf

One primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the law/society relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes and is shaped by the society in which it operates. This book explores the law/society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. Recognizing that inequalities along these lines exist in society raises important questions: What role has law historically played in generating today's inequalities? Is law part of the problem or part of the solution? Can we use law as a strategy to achieve meaningful change? The essays in this new edition of Locating Law demonstrate law's role in a variety of specific contexts, including perpetuating colonialism in Canada, protecting corporations and holding women responsible for sexual violence against them. These analyses are sure to generate discussion and debate and, in the process, enhance our understanding of this important relation between law and society.

Author : Elizabeth Comack
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633251

Get Book

Locating Law, 3rd Edition by Elizabeth Comack Pdf

Praise for the second edition: “This book is the best available for teaching the role of law in society and making sense of how it operates within the (inter)connections of race, class and gender dynamics often perpetuating oppression. … Locating Law is essential for undergraduate students in justice, sociology and criminology.” – Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina “Students regularly tell me that Locating Law is their favourite book out of the selections for the Law and Society course. The case studies are sufficiently different from one another that the students deepen their general knowledge, and they appreciate the fact that the chapters are written in a style they can understand.” – Jennifer Jarman, Lakehead University A primary concern within the study of law has been to understand the “law-society” relation. Underlying this concern is the belief that law has a distinctly social basis; it both shapes – and is shaped by – the society in which it operates. This book explores the law-society relation by locating law within the nexus of race/class/gender/sexuality relations in society. In addition to updating the material in the theoretical and substantive chapters, this third edition of Locating Law includes three new contributions: sentencing law and Aboriginal peoples; corporations and the law; and obscenity and indecency legislation. The analyses offered in the book are sure to generate discussion and debate and, in the process, enhance our understanding of law’s location.

Author : Morris L. Cohen,Robert C. Berring
Publisher : West Publishing Company
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015015034369

Get Book

How to Find the Law by Morris L. Cohen,Robert C. Berring Pdf

"Characteristics of American Law and Legal Resources; Court Reports; Shepard's Citations; Online Updating Tools; West Key-Number Digests; ALR Annotations; Federal Statutory Research; State Statutory Research; Local Law Sources; Constitutional Law; Legislative History; Administrative Regulations and Decisions; Court Rules; Practice Materials; Looseleaf Services; Legal Periodicals; Periodical Indexes; Legal Encyclopedias; Restatements; Texts; Legal Dictionaries; Directories; Formbooks; Nonlegal Research Sources; Treaties; International Law; International Organizations; English Legal Research; Canadian Legal Research; Foreign and Comparative Law; Research Strategies."-- Book description

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311789085

Get Book

Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Viviane Saleh-Hanna
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780776617497

Get Book

Colonial Systems of Control by Viviane Saleh-Hanna Pdf

A pioneering book on prisons in West Africa, Colonial Systems of Control: Criminal Justice in Nigeria is the first comprehensive presentation of life inside a West African prison. Chapters by prisoners inside Kirikiri maximum security prison in Lagos, Nigeria are published alongside chapters by scholars and activists. While prisoners document the daily realities and struggles of life inside a Nigerian prison, scholar and human rights activist Viviane Saleh-Hanna provides historical, political, and academic contexts and analyses of the penal system in Nigeria. The European penal models and institutions imported to Nigeria during colonialism are exposed as intrinsically incoherent with the community-based conflict-resolution principles of most African social structures and justice models. This book presents the realities of imprisonment in Nigeria while contextualizing the colonial legacies that have resulted in the inhumane brutalities that are endured on a daily basis.

Author : Patricia Law Hatcher
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0806320370

Get Book

Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records by Patricia Law Hatcher Pdf

A great way to track down early ancestors, land records comprise one of the most important record sets in genealogy. Certified genealogist Law Hatcher explains where to find land records and how to use them. Through easy-to-follow instructions, she describes the process for identifying, finding, and interpreting the most common types of records.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1285569837

Get Book

Halsbury's Laws of England by Anonim Pdf

Author : Delridge La Veon Hunter Ph D
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 108170716X

Get Book

The Law of Position and Location by Delridge La Veon Hunter Ph D Pdf

The Law of Position & Location, a Position Location Theory, uses the premise of the Laws of Form as the basis of the numerous axioms that make up this paradigm. Each axiom contains a set of theorems that explain the rules of crossing, calling ((naming) and location (position) as operational forms within a polity of culture. Each axiom is layered to complement and support the others with axioms containing the rules that define distinction as an operational form of inequality. The two, operational processes here that explain the system are crossing and calling (naming). The position theory as a location theory, applies crossing and calling as indicators of the distance between the least favored and the most favored positions. The form of distinction as the original form establishes the motive for the creation of operational barriers to keep the other forms of distinction from crossing. To indicate what forms are to be distinguished from the original form, a name is to be attached to each form to inform that particular, what value is assigned to that name called. The name called and called again establishes that name as an indication of what form of distinction it is.

Author : Lorne Waldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Emigration and immigration law
ISBN : 0433453656

Get Book

Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law Practice by Lorne Waldman Pdf

Author : Richard Jochelson,James Gacek,Lauren Menzie,Kirsten Kramar,Mark Doerksen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351678643

Get Book

Criminal Law and Precrime by Richard Jochelson,James Gacek,Lauren Menzie,Kirsten Kramar,Mark Doerksen Pdf

In Philip K. Dick’s short story Minority Report, the institution of Precrime punishes people with imprisonment for crimes they would have committed had they not been prevented. With Dick’s allegorical inspiration, the authors of Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Canadian Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt posit that recent developments in Canadian law indicate a trend toward imposing punitive measures at increasingly earlier stages of the prosecutorial process. The result is a potentially new field of criminal management that could be characterized as "precrime"—particularly the use of the law as a technology of surveillance and prevention since "terror" became a justification for intervention. The authors note that as risk management logics (based in actuarial sciences) have shifted to precautionary ones (based in administrative sciences), the law has responded by developing techniques in the arena of criminal regulation in light of the "war on terror": the need to ensure security, the proliferation of digital data, and the development of drones, social networking, and cloud storage to gather personal data. The authors view shifts in criminal investigation; the substantive criminal law of sexual expression, conduct, and work; and civil forfeiture as emblematic of precrime populism. The unifying theme of these techniques is that they occur prior to state-identified crime, arise out of a precautionary philosophy, and seek to presume (or circumvent) criminality. The book is a provocative read for scholars and students in criminal law, policing, and surveillance, as well as for those interested in how areas of law, such as immigration, health, and anti-terrorism, are mobilizing the logics of risk and surveillance in new ways that emphasize precaution. The authors invite legal scholars to place the analytical lens of precrime on criminal and regulatory practices in Canada as well as other Western nations across the globe.

Author : Lionel D. Smith
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191587030

Get Book

The Law of Tracing by Lionel D. Smith Pdf

The law of tracing is a complex subject which has struggled to find a home in works on property, equity, commercial law and restitution. Broadly speaking, it addresses the question of when rights held in an asset can be asserted in another asset despite changes in form or attempts to 'launder' the initial asset. Properly understood this area of study is composed of several distinct topics. This book explores all the areas covered by the law of tracing in a degree of detail not previously reached in more general works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1374 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Law
ISBN : IND:30000108178256

Get Book

The Central Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Vols. 65-96 include "Central law journal's international law list."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : MINN:31951D00550069Q

Get Book

The Northwestern Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Morris L. Cohen,Robert C. Berring
Publisher : West Publishing Company
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Legal research
ISBN : UCAL:B4110616

Get Book

How to Find the Law by Morris L. Cohen,Robert C. Berring Pdf

"Characteristics of American Law and Legal Resources; Court Reports; Shepard's Citations; Online Updating Tools; West Key-Number Digests; ALR Annotations; Federal Statutory Research; State Statutory Research; Local Law Sources; Constitutional Law; Legislative History; Administrative Regulations and Decisions; Court Rules; Practice Materials; Looseleaf Services; Legal Periodicals; Periodical Indexes; Legal Encyclopedias; Restatements; Texts; Legal Dictionaries; Directories; Formbooks; Nonlegal Research Sources; Treaties; International Law; International Organizations; English Legal Research; Canadian Legal Research; Foreign and Comparative Law; Research Strategies."-- Book description

Author : Oregon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4378172

Get Book

General and Special Laws and Joint Resolutions and Memorials by Oregon Pdf