Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case / / editors, David Dyzenhaus, Mayo Moran

• Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 471 pages)
• Disciplina: 342.7108/73
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Reparations for historical injustices Canada Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Conference papers and proceedings.
• Soggetto non controllato: Chinese Canadians
• Altri autori: DyzenhausDavid
• Persona (resp. second.): MoranMayo <1960->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Calling power to account
• ISBN: 1-282-02890-1; 9786612028908; 1-4426-7166-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780414603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II