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  • Feminist Judgments

    From Theory to Practice

    While feminist legal scholarship has thrived within universities and in some sectors of legal practice, it has yet to have much impact within the judiciary or on judicial thinking. Thus, while feminist legal scholarship has generated comprehensive critiques of existing legal doctrine, there has been little opportunity to test or apply feminist knowledge in practice, in decisions in individual ... Read more

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  • Writing for Animals

    New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire

    A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writingDespite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at how we depict animals and ask ourselves difficult questions. For example, are we using animals for ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Justice for Everyone

    The Jurisprudence and Legal Lives of Brenda Hale

    As the first woman to be appointed President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale was one of the UK's most high profile and influential judges, and she is among the most powerful women leaders of our time. For almost half a century, she pioneered as an educator, reformer, and decision-maker, leaving a distinct mark on the law and the lives of many. In commemoration of her recent retirement from ... Read more

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  • Thinking About Law

    Perspectives on the history, philosophy and sociology of law

    There is more to law than rules, robes and precedents. Rather, law is an integral part of social practices and policies, as diverse and complex as society itself.Thinking About Law offers a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which law has been presented and represented. It explores historical, sociological, economic and philosophical perspectives on the major legal and political debates in ... Read more

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  • Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand

    Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope

    This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge. Feminist judging is an emerging critical legal approach that works within the confines of common law legal method to challenge the myth of judicial neutrality and illustrate how the personal experiences and perspectives of judges may influence the reasoning and outcome of their decisions. ... Read more

    $100.09 CAD

  • Choice and Consent

    Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity

    Edited by Rosemary Hunter, Sharon Cowan ...
    This current and timely volume presents new thinking and new directions in feminist legal scholarship. Rethinking key concepts in legal feminism, Cowan and Hunter provide a unique examination of key socio-legal concepts in law, jurisprudence and legal and political theory.Written by an international cast of contributors, offering different cultural perspectives as well as doctrinal and theoretical ... Read more

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  • Australian Feminist Judgments

    Righting and Rewriting Law

    This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the possibilities, limits and implications of feminist approaches to legal decision-making. Each case is accompanied by a brief commentary that places it ... Read more

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  • Domestic Abuse and Child Contact

    International Experience

    This book presents papers from an International Symposium on Contact Disputes and Allegations of Domestic Violence: Identifying Best Practices, held in London in May 2017.The editors invited a group of international experts to explain the approaches taken in their jurisdictions to allegations of domestic violence in child contact cases, with a view to identifying international best practices in ... Read more

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  • Mapping Paths to Family Justice

    Resolving Family Disputes in Neoliberal Times

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The family justice system in England and Wales has undergone radical change over the past 20 years. A significant part of this shifting landscape has been an increasing emphasis on settling private family disputes out of court, which has been embraced by policy-makers, judges and practitioners alike and is promoted as an unqualified good.Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes ... Read more

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    From Difference to Diversity

    by Erika Rackley ...
    Awarded the 2013 Birks Book Prize by the Society of Legal Scholars, Women, Judging and the Judiciary expertly examines debates about gender representation in the judiciary and the importance of judicial diversity. It offers a fresh look at the role of the (woman) judge and the process of judging and provides a new analysis of the assumptions which underpin and constrain debates about why we might ... Read more

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  • Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

    Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion

    by Belinda Recio ...
    As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Mighty Judgment

    How The Supreme Court Of Canada Runs Your Life

    In Mighty Judgment Philip Slayton describes the important issues the Supreme Court decides for individual Canadians and for Canada as a nation, and the surprising and dramatic ways in which these decisions shape our future. In the Morgentaler case (1988), the court struck down laws restricting abortion, leaving Canada the only Western country without any abortion laws. In the Same-Sex Marriage ... Read more

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