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Judging Bertha Wilson : Law as Large as Life
Supported with the warmth and generosity of Wilson's numerous personal anecdotes, this work illuminates the life and thought of a woman who has left an extraordinary mark on Canada's legal landscape.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2002.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
- FOREWORD: Bertha Wilson
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART ONE: The Preparatory Years: Life before the Bench
- 1 Growing Up: Daughter, Sister, and Student
- Family Life
- Church and School
- University Studies: War and Romance
- 2 The Clergyman's Wife
- Macduff: An Education for Living
- Conscience and Compromise
- On the Boundary: Immigration to Canada
- Ottawa on Her Own
- 3 Diligence at Dalhousie
- Sopping It Up: The Law Student as Sponge
- Classroom and Curriculum
- Social Life and Study Group
- Graduation and Articles
- 4 The Osler Innovations
- Establishing a Research Practice
- From Family Firm to Corporate Culture
- Developing Philanthropy: A Conservative Socialist at Work
- Courtroom Strategy: Texas Gulf Sulphur
- The Conscience of the Firm
- Public Commitments, Private Life
- PART TWO: On the Bench: The Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada
- 5 The Ontario Court of Appeal
- Appointment to the Court of Appeal
- On-the-Job Training: Making a Place
- Criminal Law: A Provocative Dissent
- Commercial Law: Consistency and Contextuality
- All in the Family
- The Human Rights Cases
- The Supreme Sacrifice
- 6 A Canadian Philosophy of Judicial Analysis
- Origins and Sources: The Personal and the Public
- Principled Contextuality
- The Charter: Principled Contextuality, National Feeling
- 7 The Supreme Court of Canada
- Inside the Court
- 8 Diversity at the Margins
- Multiculturalism: Theories of Human Rights
- Adverse Effects and Undue Hardship
- Immigration: Liberty and Security of the Person
- Freedom of Religion
- Wrongful Dismissal
- Equality, Citizenship, and Analogous Grounds
- Mandatory Retirement
- Minority Language Rights
- Aboriginal Law Developments.
- 9 Beyond Family Law: Justice for Women and Children
- Concepts of the Family
- Spousal Support Revisited
- The Best Interests of the Child
- Violence against Women and Children
- Prostitution and Freedom of Expression
- Abortion, Privacy, and the Ambivalence of Choice
- 10 Getting Down to Business: Law and Economics in the Marketplace
- The Context of Business
- Leave to Appeal
- Tort, Contract, and Trust Law
- A 'Taking' of Property: Constructive Trust
- Taxing Business Decisions
- Business Entities, Corporate Control, and Legal Subjects
- Labouring over Labour Relations
- Guaranteed Rights for Corporations
- Ethics and Economics: Wilson's Business Context
- 11 Contextual Proceduralism
- Judicial Activism, Judicial Obligation
- Procedural Convergences, Substantive Effects
- Intervention and Extrinsic Evidence
- Old Dogs, New Tricks
- The Administrative Law Paradox
- International Law: Sovereignty, Reciprocity, and Comity
- 12 Outside the Court
- Multiple Dimensions: The Extra-Judicial Duties
- Time to Move On
- PART THREE: Life after Judging
- 13 The Gender Equality Study
- Finding the Funding: Costly Consultations
- Billable Hour Quotas and the Duty to Accommodate
- Women in the Judiciary
- 14 The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
- Getting under Way: Mandate and Methodology
- Hearing Stories, Seeking Solutions
- Staffing the Commission: The Interim Reports
- Writing the Final Report
- Response to the Report
- 15 Portrait of a Judge
- ADJUNCT INTERVIEWS
- ARCHIVAL RESOURCES
- NOTES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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- W
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