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Autore: | Girard Philip |
Titolo: | Bora Laskin : bringing law to life / / Philip Girard |
Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
©2005 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (690 p.) |
Disciplina: | 347.7103534 |
Soggetto topico: | Judges - Canada |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Starting Out -- PART II. The Academy -- PART III. Extra-curricular -- PART IV. Transitions -- PART V. The Supreme Court of Canada -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- Backmatter |
Sommario/riassunto: | In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal (1965) and later Chief Justice of Canada (1973-1984). Throughout his professional career, he used the law to make Canada a better place for workers, racial and ethnic minorities, and the disadvantaged. As a judge, he sought to make the judiciary more responsive to modern Canadian expectations of justice and fundamental rights.In Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, Philip Girard chronicles the life of a man who, at all points of his life, was a fighter for a better Canada: he fought antisemitism, corporate capital, omnipotent university boards, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and his own judicial colleagues in an effort to modernize institutions and re-shape Canadian law. Girard exploits a wealth of previously untapped archival sources to provide, in vivid detail, a critical assessment of a restless man on an important mission. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bora Laskin |
ISBN: | 1-281-99180-5 |
9786611991807 | |
1-4426-7152-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456525103321 |
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