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Titolo: | 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.: | 9910812903203321 |
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