Law and Society
Founding editor: W. Wesley Pue
The Law and Society Series explores law as a socially embedded phenomenon. It is premised on the understanding that the conventional division of law from society creates false dichotomies in thinking, scholarship, educational practice, and social life. Books in the series treat law and society as mutually constitutive and seek to bridge scholarship emerging from interdisciplinary engagement of law with disciplines such as politics, social theory, history, political economy, and gender studies.
The Environmental Rights Revolution
A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment
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.
- Copyright year: 2012
Troubling Sex
Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity
Focusing on the Supreme Court of Canada, Craig attempts to overcome the constraints of theoretical frameworks and disciplinary boundaries by pursuing a more inclusive theory of law and sexuality.
- Copyright year: 2012
Being Relational
Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law
This groundbreaking collection explores relational theory and how it can be brought to bear on practical areas of concern in health law and policy.
- Copyright year: 2012
Conflict in Caledonia
Aboriginal Land Rights and the Rule of Law
A powerful account of how land disputes reflect complex and often competing understandings of law, landscape, and identity among First Nations and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2011
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism
Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada
Drawing on history, international law, and recent decision-making in the Supreme Court, this book seeks the truth behind allegations that Canadian law continues to colonize Indigenous peoples.
- Copyright year: 2011
Westward Bound
Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society
Through the study of hundreds of criminal cases, Westward Bound explores how encounters between the courts and ordinary people on the Canadian Prairies contributed to the construction of race, class, and gender hierarchies in a settler society.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Freedom of Security
Governing Canada in the Age of Counter-Terrorism
A trenchant exploration of how security and counter-terrorism practices are not only eroding civil liberties, but reshaping the very nature of our political freedom.
- Copyright year: 2011
Transforming Law's Family
The Legal Recognition of Planned Lesbian Motherhood
Drawing on the rarely heard voices of Canada’s lesbian mothers, Transforming Law’s Family explores the legal dimensions of planned lesbian parenthood and proposes avenues for legal change.
- Copyright year: 2011
Critical Criminology in Canada
New Voices, New Directions
A new generation of critical criminologists examines the future of criminology and criminal justice in Canada.
- Copyright year: 2011
In Defence of Principles
NGOs and Human Rights in Canada
This exploration of the activities of four Canadian NGOs in advancing and defending human rights principles sheds new light on the fragility and resilience of human rights norms in liberal democracies.
- Copyright year: 2010
The Politics of Acknowledgement
Truth Commissions in Uganda and Haiti
This book examines the failure of truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti and develops a rigorous framework to evaluate truth commissions around the world.
- Copyright year: 2010
Constructing Crime
Contemporary Processes of Criminalization
Five unique case studies reveal how crime is being constructed and enforced in contemporary Canada.
- Copyright year: 2010
Aboriginal Title and Indigenous Peoples
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Offers a perspective on Aboriginal title and land rights that extends beyond national borders and the contemporary context to consider historical developments in common law countries.
- Copyright year: 2010
Constitutional Politics in Canada after the Charter
Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Systemism
The first systematic analysis of general theories about Canada’s post-Charter constitutional evolution.
- Copyright year: 2010
Contested Constitutionalism
Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Contested Constitutionalism is a critique of Canadian democracy, judicial power, and the place of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples within the federation, all of which have been altered by the Charter’s introduction in 1982.
- Copyright year: 2009
A Perilous Imbalance
The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance
Tackles the pressing question of how Canadian engagement with globalization can be marshaled to advance rather than impair human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation.
- Copyright year: 2010
Justice Bertha Wilson
One Woman’s Difference
This timely, evocative book showcases Bertha Wilson’s contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and explores the issues that this controversial personality grappled with in her life and career.
- Copyright year: 2009
Feminized Justice
The Toronto Women’s Court, 1913-34
Drawing on case files and newspapers accounts of women’s confrontations with the law in the Toronto Women’s Police Court, Feminized Justice offers a multifaceted portrait of women, crime, and courts in early twentieth-century Toronto.
- Copyright year: 2009
Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage
Laws, Policy, and Reform
- Copyright year: 2009
Colonial Proximities
Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921
Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2009