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Author Dyzenhaus, David

Title Calling Power to Account : Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head tax
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005

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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
Reparations for historical injustices -- Canada -- Congresses
Chinese -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
Emigration and immigration law -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Emigration and immigration law
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
Reparations for historical injustices
Canada
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Moran, Mayo
ISBN 9781442671669
1442671661