Calling Power to Account

Informationen zum Autor David Dyzenhaus is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Mayo Moran is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Calling Power to Account suggests that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the Head Tax Case. Zusammenfassung Calling Power to Account suggests that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the Head Tax Case. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Contributors Context and History Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality! History! and Reparation David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran Litigating Injustice Avvy Go Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework Constance Backhouse Can We Do Wrong to Strangers? Audrey Macklin The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination John McLaren Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government Mary Eberts Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs Catherine Lu Rights and Wrongs! Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress Jeremy Webber Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction Lorne Sossin Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case Julian Rivers The Juristic Force of Injustice David Dyzenhaus Private Right and Public Wrong The Timing of Injustice Lionel Smith Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment Dennis Klimchuk A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States Anthony J. Sebok Time! Place! and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law Mayo Moran Appendix I: Appellants' Factum Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada - Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal Index ...

Autorentext

David Dyzenhaus, Mayo Moran

Klappentext

Calling Power to Account suggests that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the Head Tax Case.

Zusammenfassung
Calling Power to Account suggests that our legal systems can hope to play a part in responding to their own legacy of past injustice only when they recognize the full array of issues posed by the Head Tax Case.

Inhalt

*Preface and Acknowledgments
Contributors*
Context and History
Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation
David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran
Litigating Injustice
Avvy Go
Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework
Constance Backhouse
Can We Do Wrong to Strangers?
Audrey Macklin
The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination
John McLaren
Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice
The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government
Mary Eberts
Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs
Catherine Lu
Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress
Jeremy Webber
Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction
Lorne Sossin
Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice
Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case
Julian Rivers
The Juristic Force of Injustice
David Dyzenhaus
Private Right and Public Wrong
The Timing of Injustice
Lionel Smith
Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment
Dennis Klimchuk
A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States
Anthony J. Sebok
Time, Place, and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law
Mayo Moran
*Appendix I: Appellants' Factum
Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada - Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Index*