Bora Laskin : bringing law to life / / Philip Girard

• Autore: Girard Philip
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History series.