| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 471 pages) |
| 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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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 |
"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 Canadian head tax as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims." "Calling Power to Account suggest 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."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Chinese Canadians |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| 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 -- Canada -- Civil rights -- History
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Chinese -- Canada -- Government policy -- History
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Chinese -- Canada -- Government relations -- History
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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LAW -- Emigration & Immigration.
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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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| SUBJECT |
Canada -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dyzenhaus, David, editor.
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Moran, Mayo, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781442671669 |
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1442671661 |
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1282028901 |
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9781282028906 |
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