Jurisprudence & General Issues

Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at la...

In its sixty-year existence, the Stikeman Elliott firm has played a role in many of the most significant transactions in Canadian business history,...

Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at la...

According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with oth...

This is an in-depth and insightful study of Shari'ah governance from a theoretical and practical perspective. Shari'ah governance has a profound in...

Since its first publication in 1996, Law and Morality has filled a long-standing need for a contemporary Canadian textbook in the philosophy of law...

While slavery in Canada was abolished in 1834, discrimination remained. Race on Trial contrasts formal legal equality with pervasive patterns of so...

In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of Canada has undergone major upheaval. The most drastic change occurred with the adoption of the Chart...

Do law and literature really have anything to say to each other? Until now, that threshold question has vexed law and literature studies. This revo...

In this unique volume, James Hackney invites readers to enter the minds of 10 legal experts that in the late 20th century changed the way we unders...

Transform your legal education into a successful and fulfilling legal career In How to Be a Lawyer: The Path from Law School to Success, a team of ...

The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal sy...

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design ...

Do law and literature really have anything to say to each other? Until now, that threshold question has vexed law and literature studies. This revo...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In the past few decades, legislatures throughout the world have suffered from gridlock. In democracies, laws and policie...

Involved in rabies research for much of their working careers, editors David J. Gregory and Rowland R. Tinline explore Canada’s unique contribution...

The stories of Guantánamo detainees, silenced and imprisoned without trial, as told by their lawyers Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the U...

As the leading legal historian of his generation in Canada and professor at McGill University for over three decades, Blaine Baker (1952–2018) was ...

In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the ...

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 farm...

In R. v. Ewanchuk, the Supreme Court of Canada held that sexual touching must be accompanied by express, contemporaneous consent. In doing so, the ...

This title sets up new frameworks to explore law as perpetual experimentation. This collection of 13 essays offers insights into philosophy of law,...