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"In the Grip of Freedom examines the relationship between Max Weber's Sociology of Law and his analysis of the structure and meaning of modern society. The interpretation of legal phenomena plays a prominent role in Weber's account of the development of the West and in his conce…
"In the Grip of Freedom examines the relationship between Max Weber's Sociology of Law and his analysis of the structure and meaning of modern society. The interpretation of legal phenomena plays a prominent role in Weber's account of the development of the West and in his conce…
Examining the relationship between Weber's Sociology of Law and his interpretation of the structure and meaning of modern society, Boucock looks at Weber's thought in the context of developments in Canada since 1982.
"Restraining Equality addresses the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada. Through a combination of public policy analysis, historical research, and legal analysis, R. Brian Howe and David John…
"Restraining Equality addresses the contemporary financial, social, legal, and policy pressures currently experienced by human rights commissions across Canada. Through a combination of public policy analysis, historical research, and legal analysis, R. Brian Howe and David John…
The authors question how the Supreme Court of Canada became second only to the federal Cabinet when two decades ago they were a relatively minor political actor. The authors state that judges are in the vanguard of the Charter revolution, but they are being pushed as much as the…
"The Charter of Rights has transformed Canadian politics. The Supreme Court has used the Charter to change government policy on an ever-expanding list of controversial issues--abortion, aboriginal rights, gay rights, bilingualism, criminal law enforcement and prisoner-voting. Th…
The concept of group rights has become crucially important in the growing number of multicultural states around the world. But nowhere, so far, have the theoretical, analytical, and philosophical issues been so directly addressed as in Canada, where the historical experience of …
Winner of the Writer's Trust of Canada / Samara's - Best Canadian Political Book of the Last 25 Years Part memoir, part investigative journalism, this is a shocking and controversial look at the corruption of Canada's human rights commissions. "On January 11, 2008, I was summone…