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Author : Rebecca J. Cook
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201663
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights of Women written by Rebecca J. Cook and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca J. Cook and the contributors to this volume seek to analyze how international human rights law applies specifically to women in various cultures worldwide, and to develop strategies to promote equitable application of human rights law at the international, regional, and domestic levels. Their essays present a compelling mixture of reports and case studies from various regions in the world, combined with scholarly assessments of international law as these rights specifically apply to women.

Author : Rosanna Lillian Langer
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining Rights and Wrongs written by Rosanna Lillian Langer and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestic processing of human rights complaints attracts a great deal of public attention and interest. Yet despite this scrutiny, there is still much below the surface that we don’t know. When people contact the human rights commission or a human rights lawyer, how do they think about and use human rights discourse? How do the legal professionals involved characterize the experiences they describe? How are complaints turned into cases? Can administrative systems be both effective and fair? Defining Rights and Wrongs investigates the day-to-day practices of low-level officials and intermediaries as they manage the gap between social relations and legal meaning in order to construct domestic human rights complaints. It documents how agency staff struggle to manage a huge body of claims within a system of restrictive rules but expansive definitions of discrimination. It also examines how independent human rights lawyers and advocacy organizations challenge human rights commissions and seek to radically reform the existing commission/tribunal structure. This book identifies the values that a human rights system should uphold if it is to be both fair and consistent with its own goals of promoting mutual respect and fostering the personal dignity and equal rights of citizens.

Author : Richard Weisman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317055098
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Showing Remorse written by Richard Weisman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether or not wrongdoers show remorse and how they show remorse are matters that attract great interest both in law and in popular culture. In capital trials in the United States, it can be a question of life or death whether a jury believes that a wrongdoer showed remorse. And in wrongdoings that capture the popular imagination, public attention focuses not only on the act but on whether the perpetrator feels remorse for what they did. But who decides when remorse should be shown or not shown and whether it is genuine or not genuine? In contrast to previous academic studies on the subject, the primary focus of this work is not on whether the wrongdoer meets these expectations over how and when remorse should be shown but on how the community reacts when these expectations are met or not met. Using examples drawn from Canada, the United States, and South Africa, the author demonstrates that the showing of remorse is a site of negotiation and contention between groups who differ about when it is to be expressed and how it is to be expressed. The book illustrates these points by looking at cases about which there was conflict over whether the wrongdoer should show remorse or whether the feelings that were shown were sincere. Building on the earlier analysis, the author shows that the process of deciding when and how remorse should be expressed contributes to the moral ordering of society as a whole. This book will be of interest to those in the fields of sociology, law, law and society, and criminology.

Author : Frederick Schauer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191018740
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing by the Rules written by Frederick Schauer and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1991-08-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and family governance. In both explaining the idea of a rule and making the case for taking rules seriously, the book is a departure both in scope and in perspective from anything that now exists.

Author : Annalise E. Acorn
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774809436
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compulsory Compassion written by Annalise E. Acorn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restorative justice is often touted as the humane and politically progressive alternative to the rigid philosophy of retributive punishment that underpins many of the world's judicial systems. Emotionally seductive, its rhetoric appeals to a desire for a "right-relation" among individuals and communities, an offers us a vision of justice that allows for the mutual healing of victim and offender, and with it, a sense of communal repair. In Compulsory Compassion, Annalise Acorn, a one-time advocate for restorative justice, deconstructs the rhetoric of the restorative movement. Drawing from diverse legal, literary, philosophical, and autobiographical sources, she questions the fundamental assumptions behind that rhetoric: that we can trust wrongdoers' performances of contrition; that healing lies in a respectful, face-to-face encounter between victim and offender; and that the restorative idea of right-relation holds the key to a reconciliation of justice and accountability on the one hand, with love and compassion on the other.

Author : Gregory S. Pun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780433454090
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Nuisance in Canada written by Gregory S. Pun and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark M. Orkin
Publisher : Canada Law Book
ISBN 13 : 9780888040503
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Costs written by Mark M. Orkin and published by Canada Law Book. This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Patricia Rempel
Publisher : Edmonton: Alberta Law Review
ISBN 13 : 9780969090816
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alberta Law Review Style Guide written by S. Patricia Rempel and published by Edmonton: Alberta Law Review. This book was released on 1978 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allan Beever
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847316999
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering the Law of Negligence written by Allan Beever and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscovering the Law of Negligence offers a systematic and theoretical exploration of the law of negligence. Its aim is to re-establish the notion that thinking about the law ought to and can proceed on the basis of principle. As such, it is opposed to the prevalent modern view that the various aspects of the law are and must be based on individual policy decisions and that the task of the judge or commentator is to shape the law in terms of the relevant policies as she sees them. The book, then, is an attempt to re-establish the law of negligence as a body of law rather than as a branch of politics. The book argues that the law of negligence is best understood in terms of a relatively small set of principles enunciated in a small number of leading cases. It further argues that these principles are themselves best seen in terms of an aspect of morality called corrective justice which, when applied to the most important aspects of the law of negligence reveals that the law - even as it now exists - possesses a far greater degree of conceptual unity than is commonly thought. Using this method the author is able to examine familiar aspects of the law of negligence such as the standard of care; the duty of care; remoteness; misfeasance; economic loss; negligent misrepresentation; the liability of public bodies; wrongful conception; nervous shock; the defences of contributory negligence, voluntary assumption of risk, and illegality; causation; and issues concerning proof, to show that when the principles are applied and the idea of corrective justice is properly understood then the law appears both systematic and conceptually satisfactory. The upshot is a rediscovery of the law of negligence.

Author : Philip Marc Raworth
Publisher : Thomson Professional Pub. Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legal Guide to International Business Transactions written by Philip Marc Raworth and published by Thomson Professional Pub. Canada. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: