Description |
1 online resource (488 pages) |
Contents |
Intro -- 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 -- 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 |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- Congresses
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Reparations for historical injustices -- Canada -- Congresses
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Chinese -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
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Emigration and immigration law -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
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Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Emigration and immigration law
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Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
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Reparations for historical injustices
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Canada
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Moran, Mayo
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ISBN |
9781442671669 |
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1442671661 |
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