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The New Lawyer analyzes the changes that are transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client service, and how law is practised - including how lawyers seek resolution before trial - to stress the need for new approaches to lawyer/client collaboration if the legal profession is to remain relevant in the twenty-first century.

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and environmental protection.

House Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.

Reconciling Truths is a forthright examination of commissions of inquiry that demonstrates the need for astute leadership and an engaging process if they are to lead to meaningful change.

Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.

Do community programs offer an effective alternative to imprisonment for women within the criminal justice system? A Better Justice? sets out the case.

Inalienable Properties explores the contrasting approaches taken by local leaders to property rights and development in four Indigenous communities.

The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawa:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.

A passionate account of how one man's fight against racism and injustice transformed the criminal justice system and galvanized the Mi'kmaw Nation's struggle for self-determination, forever changing the landscape of Indigenous rights in Canada and around the world.

Based on innovative recent empirical research, The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn't working in efforts to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.

Enforcing Exclusion explores the multiple ways migration status functions to exclude temporary and precarious migrants from the law's benefits and protections.

This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe's southern borders.

Faith or Fraud? Fortune-Telling, Individual Spirituality, and the Law answers an emerging controversy: Should the law's understanding of religion include the "spiritual but not religious"?

David R. Boyd reveals striking weaknesses in Canadian environmental law, describes the damage these flaws are wreaking on human health, and identifies practical, proven, and affordable solutions to these problems.

Crossing Law's Border offers a comprehensive account of Canada's refugee resettlement program, from the Indochinese crisis of the 1970s to the current era of controversy and flux in refugee and asylum policy.

Trustees at Work explores what is means to be considered a deserving debtor in under contemporary Canadian personal bankruptcy law.

An engaging study of the clash between two iconic Canadian policy instruments - universal, single-payer health care and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - and the effects on politics and policy.

A book that is suitable for scholars with an interest in contemporary labour relations, labour law, and the discourse of rights, as well as labour movements.

Delving into the language used by parliamentarians, senators, and committee witnesses to debate Canada's hate laws, this book analyzes passionate discourse surrounding victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.

A bold analysis of what happened when Canada attempted to extend group rights to Aboriginal people in the early 1980s and why it went wrong.

Parole in Canada explores how concerns about aboriginality, gender, and the multicultural ideal of "diversity" have altered parole policy and practice - and asks whether these changes go far enough.

Fragile Settlements compares the historical processes through which British colonial authority was asserted over Indigenous people in southwest Australia and prairie Canada from the 1830s to the early twentieth century.

Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when ...

Media coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada has emerged as a crucial factor not only for judges and journalists but also for the public. It's the media, after all, that decide which court rulings to cover and how ...

Based on innovative recent empirical research, The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn't working in efforts to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.

This eye-opening study shows how the condo, developed to meet the needs of a community of owners in cities in the 1960s, has been conquered by commercial interests.

By the Court is the first major study of unanimous and anonymous legal decisions: the unique "By the Court" format used by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The first comprehensive analysis of the Canadian reference power, Seeking the Court's Advice examines how policy makers use the courts strategically to achieve political ends.