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Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case /

"Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetuated by law. In Canada, descendants of Chinese immigrants recently claimed the return of a head tax levied only on Chinese immigrants. Calling Power to Account uses the litigation around the Chinese C...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dyzenhaus, David (Editor), Moran, Mayo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Context and History""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation""; ""Litigating Injustice""; ""Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework""; ""Can We Do Wrong to Strangers?""; ""The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination""; ""Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice""; ""The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government""
  • ""Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs""""Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress""; ""Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction""; ""Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice""; ""Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case""; ""The Juristic Force of Injustice""; ""Private Right and Public Wrong""; ""The Timing of Injustice""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment""
  • ""A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States""""Time, Place, and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law""; ""Appendix I: Appellants' Factum""; ""Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada â€? Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""