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UNINA9910780414603321 |
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Titolo |
Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case / / editors, David Dyzenhaus, Mayo Moran |
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Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-02890-1 |
9786612028908 |
1-4426-7166-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 471 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Chinese - Legal status, laws, etc - History |
Reparations for historical injustices - Canada |
Chinese - Taxation - Law and legislation - Canada - History |
Race discrimination - Law and legislation - Canada - History |
Emigration and immigration law - Canada - History |
History |
Conference papers and proceedings. |
Reparations for historical injustices Canada Congresses |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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 |
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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"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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. |
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