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Canadian perspectives on law & society : issues in legal history

Canadian perspectives on law & society : issues in legal history

Canadian perspectives on law & society : issues in legal history

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Online version: Pue, W. Wesley. Canadian perspectives on law & society. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1988 (OCoLC)569416888

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353 pages ; 24 cm.

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Canadian perspectives on law & society : issues in legal history is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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An introduction to Canadian law in history / Barry Wright
Theory and method in the history of law / W. Wesley Pue
Some reflections on the “New” Legal History in Relation to Weber's Sociology of law / Susan Binnie
Doing justice to “British justice”: law, ideology and Canadian historiography / Greg Marquis
Dialogical jurisprudence / David Howes
Maternal feminism, legal professionalism and political pragmatism: the rise and fall of Magistrate Margaret Patterson, 1922-1934 / Dorothy E. Chunn
Very late Loyalist fantasies: nostalgic Tory history and the rule of law in Upper Canada / Paul Romney
Issues in social welfare and labour relations / W. Wesley Pue
Assistance to veterans and their dependants: steps on the way to the administrative state, 1914-1929 / Margaret E. McCallum
The cold hand of charity: the court of Quarter Sessions and poor relief in the Niagara District, 1828-1841 / David R. Murray
Living wage and living profit: wage determination by conciliation boards under the Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907-1925 / Jeremy Webber
Issues in criminal law and authority: civil liberties and morality / Barry Wright
The general court martial of 1838-39 in Lower Canada: a abuse of justice / F. Murray Greenwood
The drafting and passage of the War Measures Act in 1914 and 1927: object lessons in the need for VIgilance / F. Murray Greenwood
The Canadian magistracy and the Anti-White Slavery Campaign, 1900-1920 / John McLaren.

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