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Constitutional Challengers

The Heroes, Villains, and Crusaders Behind Canada's Biggest Cases

par Adam Dodek ...

Behind every great constitutional case, there is a person with a fascinating story.The Supreme Court decides some of the biggest issues in Canadian society: Do Canadians have the right to assisted suicide? Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry? How far does freedom of religion or freedom of expression go?In Constitutional Challengers, Adam Dodek has gathered together twenty-six of the most ... En savoir plus

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Behind every great constitutional case, there is a person with a fascinating story.The Supreme Court decides some of the biggest issues in Canadian society: Do Canadians have the right to assisted suicide? Should same-sex couples be allowed to marry? How far does freedom of religion or freedom of expression go?In Constitutional Challengers, Adam Dodek has gathered together twenty-six of the most
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Living Language Rights

Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education

par Lorena Sekwan Fontaine ...

SHORTLISTED Alexander Kennedy Isbister Non Fiction Award, Manitoba Book AwardsBeyond BilingualismIn Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education, Lorena Fontaine’s ground-breaking work explores the constitutional foundations and growing recognition of Indigenous language rights in Canada. By documenting the history of First Nations’ language transmission on the ... En savoir plus

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SHORTLISTED Alexander Kennedy Isbister Non Fiction Award, Manitoba Book AwardsBeyond BilingualismIn Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education, Lorena Fontaine’s ground-breaking work explores the constitutional foundations and growing recognition of Indigenous language rights in Canada. By documenting the history of First Nations’ language transmission on the
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Losing the News

The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy

par Alex Jones ...

Collections series Institutions of American Democracy
In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones says that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over government, holds the ... En savoir plus

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In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy. At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones says that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over government, holds the
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We the People

A History of the U.S. Constitution

par Jill Lepore ...

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY | ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryWinner of the Massachusetts Book Award for NonfictionShortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History ... En savoir plus

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**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY | ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryWinner of the Massachusetts Book Award for NonfictionShortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History
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Red Light Labour

Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance

par Elya M. Durisin, Emily van der Meulen, Chris Bruckert ...

Collections series Sexuality Studies
In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but little new insight into sex work.Red Light Labour addresses Canada’s new legal regime regulating sex work through the analysis of past and present policy approaches and consideration of how laws and those who uphold them have constructed, controlled, and ... En savoir plus

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In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but little new insight into sex work.Red Light Labour addresses Canada’s new legal regime regulating sex work through the analysis of past and present policy approaches and consideration of how laws and those who uphold them have constructed, controlled, and
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Constitutional Crossroads

Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change

Modifié par Kate Puddister, Emmett Macfarlane ...

Collections series Law and Society
Four decades have passed since the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982. Now it is time to assess its legacy. As Constitutional Crossroads makes clear, the 1982 constitutional package raises a host of questions about a number of important issues, including identity and pluralism, the scope and limits of rights, competing constitutional visions, the relationship between the state and Indigenous ... En savoir plus

$31.99 CAD

Four decades have passed since the adoption of the Constitution Act, 1982. Now it is time to assess its legacy. As Constitutional Crossroads makes clear, the 1982 constitutional package raises a host of questions about a number of important issues, including identity and pluralism, the scope and limits of rights, competing constitutional visions, the relationship between the state and Indigenous
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Constitutional and Administrative Law

Key Facts and Key Cases

par Jamie Grace ...

Collections series Key Facts Key Cases
Key Facts Key Cases Constitutional & Administrative Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Constitutional & Administrative Lawmodule with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:- The European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court- Devolution- Human rights law- EU membership- International law in the UK ConstitutionKey Facts Key Cases is the essential ... En savoir plus

$81.06 CAD

Key Facts Key Cases Constitutional & Administrative Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your Constitutional & Administrative Lawmodule with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:- The European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court- Devolution- Human rights law- EU membership- International law in the UK ConstitutionKey Facts Key Cases is the essential
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"Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People"

And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control

par Dennis A. Henigan ...

Collections Livre 4 - Myths Made in America
“A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, Huffington Post).The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to ... En savoir plus

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“A must-read for every American who longs to bring sanity to our nation’s gun laws,” this book debunks the lethal logic behind the myths that have framed the gun control debate (Ariana Huffington, Huffington Post).The gun lobby’s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to
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The U.S. Constitution and Other Writings (Deluxe Leatherbound Edition)

Modifié par Editors of Canterbury Classics ...

Collections series Leather-bound Classics
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union . . . ” — The U.S ConstitutionThe U.S. Constitution and Other Writings is a collection of the crucial documents, speeches, and other writings that shaped the United States. In addition to the Constitution, readers can review the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers, important ... En savoir plus

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“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union . . . ” — The U.S ConstitutionThe U.S. Constitution and Other Writings is a collection of the crucial documents, speeches, and other writings that shaped the United States. In addition to the Constitution, readers can review the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers, important
... En savoir plus
Foundations of Public Law

par Martin Loughlin ...

Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence ... En savoir plus

$56.79 CAD

Foundations of Public Law offers an account of the formation of the discipline of public law with a view to identifying its essential character, explaining its particular modes of operation, and specifying its unique task. Building on the framework first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003), the book conceives public law broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence
... En savoir plus
Red, White, and Kind of Blue?

The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture

par David Schneiderman ...

Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the ... En savoir plus

$36.79 CAD

Situated between two different constitutional traditions, those of the United Kingdom and the United States, Canada has maintained a distinctive third way: federal, parliamentary, and flexible. Yet in recent years it seems that Canadian constitutional culture has been moving increasingly in an American direction. Through the prorogation crises of 2008 and 2009, its senate reform proposals, and the
... En savoir plus
EU Law

par Chris Turner ...

Collections series Key Facts Key Cases
Key Facts Key Cases: EU Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your EU Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:The constitution of EU law, its institutions, the sources of EU law and the means of enforcementThe relationship with national lawThe law of the single marketEU competition lawEU discrimination law and other social policy</... ... En savoir plus

$79.69 CAD

Key Facts Key Cases: EU Law will ensure you grasp the main concepts of your EU Law module with ease. This book explains the facts and associated case law for:The constitution of EU law, its institutions, the sources of EU law and the means of enforcementThe relationship with national lawThe law of the single marketEU competition lawEU discrimination law and other social policy</...
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The Chrétien Legacy

Politics and Public Policy in Canada

par Lois Harder, Steve Patten ...

The legacy of Jean Chrétien, Canadian prime minister from 1993-2003, is difficult to assess in the context of the sponsorship scandal and the subsequent cloud of uncertainty surrounding the Liberal Party's electoral prospects. The contributors to this volume use their considerable experience and expertise as policy observers and critical thinkers to provide provocative essays that analyse Chrétien ... En savoir plus

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The legacy of Jean Chrétien, Canadian prime minister from 1993-2003, is difficult to assess in the context of the sponsorship scandal and the subsequent cloud of uncertainty surrounding the Liberal Party's electoral prospects. The contributors to this volume use their considerable experience and expertise as policy observers and critical thinkers to provide provocative essays that analyse Chrétien
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Canada in the World

Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution

Modifié par Richard Albert, David R. Cameron ...

Collections series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
In this volume marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, leading scholars and jurists discuss the evolution of the Canadian Constitution since the British North America Act 1867; the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution as a 'living tree' capable of application to new legal issues; and the growing influence of both the Constitution, with its entrenched Charter ... En savoir plus

$53.59 CAD

In this volume marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, leading scholars and jurists discuss the evolution of the Canadian Constitution since the British North America Act 1867; the role of the Supreme Court in interpreting the Constitution as a 'living tree' capable of application to new legal issues; and the growing influence of both the Constitution, with its entrenched Charter
... En savoir plus
Justice Abandoned

How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration

par Rachel Elise Barkow ...

An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter of its prisoners, America indisputably has a mass incarceration problem. How did it happen? Tough-on-crime politics and a racially loaded drug war are obvious and important culprits, but another factor ... En savoir plus

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An influential legal scholar argues that the Supreme Court played a pivotal role in the rise of mass incarceration in America.With less than 5 percent of the world’s population and almost a quarter of its prisoners, America indisputably has a mass incarceration problem. How did it happen? Tough-on-crime politics and a racially loaded drug war are obvious and important culprits, but another factor
... En savoir plus
The Shapeshifting Crown

Locating the State in Postcolonial New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK

Modifié par Cris Shore, David V. Williams ...

The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the ... En savoir plus

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The Crown stands at the heart of the New Zealand, British, Australian and Canadian constitutions as the ultimate source of legal authority and embodiment of state power. A familiar icon of the Westminster model of government, it is also an enigma. Even constitutional experts struggle to define its attributes and boundaries: who or what is the Crown and how is it embodied? Is it the Queen, the
... En savoir plus
Succession

Le guide pratique

par Sylvie DIBOS-LACROUX ...

Collections series Les guides pratiques pour tous
Un véritable guide pratique, juridique et fiscal à l'usage des héritiers mais aussi de ceux qui veulent organiser leur succession. Cet ouvrage présente un tour d’horizon complet de l’ensemble de la législation en matière de succession : testament, donations, notion d’héritier réservataire, frais de notaire, droits du conjoint survivant… Rédigé dans un langage clair, précis et accessible à tous, ... En savoir plus

$26.99 CAD

Un véritable guide pratique, juridique et fiscal à l'usage des héritiers mais aussi de ceux qui veulent organiser leur succession. Cet ouvrage présente un tour d’horizon complet de l’ensemble de la législation en matière de succession : testament, donations, notion d’héritier réservataire, frais de notaire, droits du conjoint survivant… Rédigé dans un langage clair, précis et accessible à tous,
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Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws

Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence, 1578–1616

par David Chan Smith ...

Collections series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal ... En savoir plus

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Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to strengthen royal
... En savoir plus
The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told

Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution

par Keith Richotte Jr. ...

When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better story. Thus begins Keith Richotte's playful, unconventional look at Native American and Supreme Court history. At the center of his account is the mystery of a massive federal authority called plenary ... En savoir plus

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When did the federal government's self-appointed, essentially limitless authority over Native America become constitutional?The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better story. Thus begins Keith Richotte's playful, unconventional look at Native American and Supreme Court history. At the center of his account is the mystery of a massive federal authority called plenary
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Your Next Government?

From the Nation State to Stateless Nations

par Tom W. Bell ...

Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These ... En savoir plus

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Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions - common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These
... En savoir plus
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A Life

par Jane Sherron de Hart ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A vivid account of a remarkable life.” —The Washington Post**In this comprehensive, revelatory biography—fifteen years of interviews and research in the making—historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence.At the heart of her story and ... En savoir plus

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A vivid account of a remarkable life.” —The Washington Post**In this comprehensive, revelatory biography—fifteen years of interviews and research in the making—historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that crucially shaped Ginsburg’s passion for justice, her advocacy for gender equality, and her meticulous jurisprudence.At the heart of her story and
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Grace and Justice on Death Row

The Race against Time and Texas to Free an Innocent Man

par Brian W. Stolarz ...

**A Washington Post bestseller!A chilling and compassionate look at how close an innocent man was to being put death with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.**What is worse than having a client on Death Row in Texas? Having a client on Death Row in Texas who is innocent and not knowing if you will be able to stop his execution in time.Grace and Justice on Death Row: A ... En savoir plus

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**A Washington Post bestseller!A chilling and compassionate look at how close an innocent man was to being put death with a foreword by Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.**What is worse than having a client on Death Row in Texas? Having a client on Death Row in Texas who is innocent and not knowing if you will be able to stop his execution in time.Grace and Justice on Death Row: A
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Crown and Country

A History of England through the Monarchy

par David Starkey ...

An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to ... En savoir plus

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An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to
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Conversations with RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

par Jeffrey Rosen ...

The New York Times BestsellerIn her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and ... En savoir plus

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The New York Times BestsellerIn her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and
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