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Deux grandes dames: Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé à la Cour suprême du Canada (Biographies et mémoires)
Par Constance Backhouse. 2021
Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dubé ont été les premières femmes juges à la Cour suprême du Canada. L'une représentait le…
Canada anglais, l'autre le Québec. De milieux et de tempéraments opposés, les deux femmes ont affronté des défis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les années 1980 ont ravi les féministes et bousculé l'establishment juridiqueMichelle Obama, first lady
Par Liza Mundy. 2009
"L'histoire de la nouvelle First lady est celle d'une battante, remportant toutes les victoires sur ses origines. Michelle Robinson est…
issue d'une famille afro-américaine modeste installée à Chicago à la suite de la Dépression des années 30. Fille d'un père employé municipal et d'une mère femme au foyer, elle a grandi dans un quartier en proie à la ségrégation raciale. Reçue à la prestigieuse université de Princeton, elle a ensuite fait des études de droit à Harvard. Devenue, à force de travail, une brillante avocate d'affaires, elle a toujours voulu mettre ses compétences au service du plus grand nombre. C'est dans le premier cabinet d'avocats où elle a travaillé qu'elle a rencontré Barack Obama, venu faire un stage d'été. Ils sont mariés depuis 1992. Femme moderne, mère de famille attentive pour leurs deux filles Malia et Sasha, conseillère précieuse et moteur de son mari, elle le stimule, l'accompagne, n'hésite pas à le critiquer et à exister à ses côtés [...]". -- 4e de couvCanadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case
Par Kent Roach. 2019
In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Saskatchewan…
farm by white farmer Gerald Stanley. In a trial that bitterly divided Canadians, Stanley was acquitted of both murder and manslaughter by a jury in Battleford with no visible Indigenous representation. In Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice Kent Roach critically reconstructs the Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie case to examine how it may be a miscarriage of justice. Roach provides historical, legal, political, and sociological background to the case including misunderstandings over crime when Treaty 6 was negotiated, the 1885 hanging of eight Indigenous men at Fort Battleford, the role of the RCMP, prior litigation over Indigenous underrepresentation on juries, and the racially charged debate about defence of property and rural crime. Drawing on both trial transcripts and research on miscarriages of justice, Roach looks at jury selection, the controversial “hang fire” defence, how the credibility and beliefs of Indigenous witnesses were challenged on the stand, and Gerald Stanley's implicit appeals to self-defence and defence of property, as well as the decision not to appeal the acquittal. Concluding his study, Roach asks whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial call to “do better” is possible, given similar cases since Stanley's, the difficulty of reforming the jury or the RCMP, and the combination of Indigenous underrepresentation on juries and overrepresentation among those victimized and accused of crimes. Informed and timely, Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice is a searing account of one case that provides valuable insight into criminal justice, racism, and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada.Racial emotion at work: Dismantling discrimination and building racial justice in the workplace
Par Tristin Green. 2023
This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace-exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations…
and why we must confront it. Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. Green provides listeners with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the taskLoger à la même adresse (Réparation)
Par Gabrielle Anctil. 2023
Dans la perspective de la crise écologique, ainsi que des crises sociales multiples liées à l'appauvrissement de la classe moyenne,…
à l'inversion de la pyramide d'âge, à l'isolement des personnes vivant seules, on ne résoudra pas la crise du logement uniquement en bâtissant de nouvelles habitations, parce que l'enjeu est plus complexe qu'un simple manque de pieds carrés. Il faut l'aborder aussi en imaginant un mieux-vivre ensemble, une façon d'enrichir notre mode de vie par la force du groupe, par l'incroyable richesse de la vie en communautéLoaded: a disarming history of the Second Amendment (City Lights Open Media Ser.)
Par Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. 2018
The criminal law handbook: know your rights, survive the system
Par Paul Bergman. 2000
"The criminal justice system is complicated. Understand it and your rights. This book demystifies the complex rules and procedures of…
criminal law. It explains how the system works, why police, lawyers, and judges do what they do, and what suspects, defendants, and prisoners can expect. It also provides critical information on working with a lawyer. In plain English, The Criminal Law Handbook covers: search and seizure; arrest, booking, and bail; Miranda rights; arraignment; plea bargains; trials; sentencing; common defenses; working with defense attorneys; constitutional rights; juvenile court; legal terms and definitions; appeals; public defenders; victims' rights. The 17th edition is completely updated, covering the latest in criminal law, including U.S. Supreme Court cases." -- Provided by publisherSupreme power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court
Par Jeff Shesol. 2010
Beginning in 1935, a series of devastating decisions by a conservative majority Supreme Court left much of FDR's agenda in…
ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession and democracy itself stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices and to "pack" the new seats with people who shared his belief in a "living" Constitution. AdultThe familia grande: a memoir
Par Camille Kouchner. 2022
"Camille Kouchner's childhood was marked by sun-drenched summers in the south of France, where a vibrant cast of family and…
friends would gather at their Sanary-sur-Mer house. This familia grande, which included much of the country's elite, spent memorable days and nights laughing, debating, drinking, and dancing. But a long-held secret poisoned Camille's memories. In February 2017, Camille returned to Sanary at forty-one to bury her mother, who died with none of her five children present. Her passing would stir up old emotions, ultimately leading Camille to publicly confront the truth. |The Familia Grande| poignantly explores the dynamics of abuse, and the questions of guilt and shame surrounding it. Published in France in 2021, the book sparked an important conversation about incest, and the attitudes and laws that have so often allowed influential men to evade consequences for their crimes." -- Provided by publisherThe right wrong man: John Demjanjuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial
Par Lawrence Douglas. 2016
"In 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case…
ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalized US citizen had collaborated in Nazi genocide. In the years that followed, Demjanjuk was stripped of his American citizenship and sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court as "Ivan the Terrible" of Treblinka-only to be cleared in one of the most notorious cases of mistaken identity in legal history. Finally, in 2011, after eighteen months of trial, a court in Munich convicted the native Ukrainian of assisting Hitler's SS in the murder of 28,060 Jews at Sobibor, a death camp in eastern Poland. An award-winning novelist as well as legal scholar, Douglas offers a compulsively readable history of Demjanjuk's bizarre case. The Right Wrong Man is both a gripping eyewitness account of the last major Holocaust trial to galvanize world attention and a vital meditation on the law's effort to bring legal closure to the most horrific chapter in modern history." -- Provided by publisherFighting for yes!: the story of disability rights activist Judith Heumann
Par Maryann Cocca-Leffler. 2022
"In the 1970s an important disability rights law--Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973--was waiting to be signed. Judy…
[Heumann] and other disability rights activists fought for YES! They held a sit-in until Section 504 was signed into law. Section 504--established thanks in large part to the ongoing work of Judy and her community--laid the foundation for the Americans with Disabilities Act." -- Provided by publisherThurgood
Par Jonah Winter. 2019
"Fact: Thurgood Marshall was a born lawyer, always arguing. Fact: Thurgood Marshall grew up to become the first Black justice…
on the Supreme Court. Fact: Thurgood Marshall revolutionized America. Before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr., before the civil rights movement there was Thurgood, fighting for African Americans--and winning. Here is the powerful story of the trailblazer who proved that separate is not equal." -- Dust jacketThis book introduces Coming to the Table's approach to a continuously evolving set of purposeful theories, ideas, experiments, guidelines, and…
intentions, all dedicated to facilitating racial healing and transformation. People of color, relative to white people, fall on the negative side of virtually all measurable social indicators. The "living wound" is seen in the significant disparities in average household wealth, unemployment and poverty rates, infant mortality rates, access to healthcare and life expectancy, education, housing, and treatment within, and by, the criminal justice system. AdultThe Hanford plaintiffs: voices from the fight for atomic justice
Par Trisha T Pritikin. 2020
During the Cold War there were several releases of radioactive gases from the Hanford nuclear site in Southeastern Washington. These…
releases left a pattern of cancers and birth defects among the people who were downwind of Hanford, a pattern long covered up by the government until revealed in legal cases. Adult. UnratedL'univers Maranda: même le diable a droit à un avocat
Par Christian Tétreault. 2023
Un criminaliste flamboyant, les pires bandits de l'histoire judiciaire du Québec: Bienvenue dans l'univers Maranda. Avocat de génie qui tétanisait…
la partie adverse et imposait le respect aux juges les plus coriaces, ardent défenseur des droits et libertés fasciné par le parcours des hors-la-loi qu'il représentait, homme respectable que l'amour a traîné sur le banc des accusés: Léo-René Maranda (1932-2012) était la complexité faite homme. Découvrir l'univers Maranda, c'est plonger dans une époque révolue où les figures mythiques de Brian Erb, Richard Foley, Monica-la-mitraille, Gérard Fontaine, Donald Côté et Alain Charron couraient encore les rues, protégées par la verve de leur éblouissant défenseurThe Rule of Law in the Real World
Par Paul Gowder. 2016
In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law…
as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a highly engaging, interdisciplinary text that moves seamlessly from theory to reality, using examples ranging from Ancient Greece through the present, Gowder sheds light on how societies have achieved the rule of law, how they have sustained it in the face of political upheaval, and how it may be measured and developed in the future. The Rule of Law in the Real World is an essential work for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone else who believes the rule of law is critical to the proper functioning of society.Legal Thought and Eastern Orthodox Christianity: The Addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (Law and Religion)
Par Norman Doe and Aetios Nikiforos. 2024
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, has thought profoundly about the role of law…
as it applies to the church, to civic life in Europe, to human rights, to religious freedom, and to the environment. In this book, leading scholars across the world reflect critically on the significance of his legal thought for human flourishing, for Christian social teaching, and for Christian unity. His legal thought is summed up in five key public addresses that he has delivered around the world in recent years, on: church law as an ecumenical instrument; the role of religion in a changing Europe; Orthodoxy and human rights; religion and freedom; and climate change, ecumenical imperatives. The collection presents critical reflections on the legal thought in these five important, distinct, and topical fields of human life. Its ten chapters, with two chapters devoted to each of his five addresses, are written by leading scholars across the world from different Christian traditions with expertise in the fields studied. They provide an analysis of the legal thought of the Patriarch, explain its significance legally, theologically, and politically, and propose its unifying value for the whole of global Christianity today. The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers working in the areas of law and religion, legal philosophy, comparative canon law, theology, and ecumenical studies.Revisiting Juvenile Justice in India analyses the challenges and issues involved in the study of juvenile justice in India. The…
book compares the juvenile justice systems of the USA, the UK and China with India to identify causes of juvenile delinquency and the measures to curb it. It traces the origin of juvenile justice in India and its evolution through landmark judgments. The book critically analyses the Nirbhaya Rape Case of 2012, analyzing the age of criminal responsibility for juveniles and the need for new juvenile justice laws which lead to the passing of the Juvenile Justice (Care of Protection of Children) Act, 2015. The book studies international conventions upholding the rights of children i.e., UNCRC, Beijing Rules, Riyadh Guidelines, etc. and the legal framework for child protection in India and its relevance to juvenile justice. This book will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate law students, advocates, criminal law practitioners, officers/staff of the correction homes, Judges of the Juvenile Justice Board, and research scholars.This volume is the first collection of Martha Albertson Fineman’s most important and influential work. Feminist legal theorist Martha Albertson…
Fineman has spent decades pushing the boundaries of law, questioning and reconceptualizing legal and social definitions of family, dependency, vulnerability, and state responsibility. The pieces collected in this book trace the arc of Fineman’s scholarship, from gender equality; to the role of the family as a social institution; to dependency; to autonomy; to the legal subject and vulnerability theory. This book reflects a lifetime of radical reimagining of the relationship between the state, individuals, families, and other social institutions that is just as relevant today, if not more so. In this book, Fineman offers a foundation for the achievement of true social justice, through the centering of our shared human vulnerability and dependency, grounded in the recognition of the ontological body and its material needs. Arranged in sections, and introduced by leading scholars in the field, these pieces ask us to re-examine our legally enshrined commitment to formal equality and the “mythological” autonomous independent legal subject; recognizing instead that we must call for an active and responsive state that meaningfully provides resilience through its social institutions. This collection demonstrates an evolution of heretical thought that has always pressed for a deeper understanding of the foundations of law and society, offering a model for other scholars on how to keep pressing through the hard work of thinking and rethinking the conceptual basics of language, law, society, and justice. This book will appeal to academics, policymakers, lawyers, activists, and students in law and politics theory with interests in law and society, human dependency and vulnerability, state responsibility, and feminism and the family; as well as others who have applied Fineman’s vulnerability theory to issues in the fields of bioethics, artificial intelligence, and policing, to name just a few.This book offers a practical guide for successful international trade operations. Written for MBA students and professionals, it provides tools…
and best practices for managing and operating complex international trade transactions. Readers learn about the legal, administrative, and practical aspects of international business transactions and how to gather and manage the proper information needed. The book covers topics such as public and private regulation of international trade, overseas market research, international trade terms, international trade contracts, payment collection, international transportation, marine cargo insurance, exchange rate risk, electronic commerce, and claims and dispute resolution. It is a valuable resource for both business students and professionals involved in international trade or export businesses.