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Public Law In Canada, Richard Haigh
Legal Theory In Relation To Public Law, Richard Haigh
Legal Theory In Relation To Public Law, Richard Haigh
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Law As A Social Construction And Conceptual Legal Theory, Dan Priel
Law As A Social Construction And Conceptual Legal Theory, Dan Priel
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A currently popular view among legal positivists is that law is a social construction. Many of the same legal philosophers also argue that before one can study law empirically, one needs to know what it is. At the heart of this paper is the claim that these two propositions are inconsistent. It presents the following dilemma: if law is a social construction like all other social constructions, then legal philosophers have to explain what philosophers have to contribute to understanding it. Studies of social constructions are typically conducted by historians, sociologists, and others, who explain them (and what they are) …
Feminist Legal Theory As Embodied Justice, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Isabel Karpin
Feminist Legal Theory As Embodied Justice, Roxanne Mykitiuk, Isabel Karpin
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This chapter examines a shift within feminist legal theory from a central concern with sexual difference to one of embodied difference. The subject at the center of this theorizing is marked by bodily (as opposed to sexual) difference from the normative, self-actualizing individual of legal subjecthood. Bioethical and biotechnological inquiries too are concerned with bodily differentiation. Bodies discussed in these contexts are often anomalous or pathologized. They are brought under scrutiny, when they deviate from what is often regarded as "normal," that which is both valorized for its "species typicality" and, by extension, held out as the "natural" state of …
The Intelligibility Of Extralegal State Action: A General Lesson For Debates On Public Emergencies And Legality, François Tanguay-Renaud
The Intelligibility Of Extralegal State Action: A General Lesson For Debates On Public Emergencies And Legality, François Tanguay-Renaud
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Some legal theorists deny that states can conceivably act extralegally in the sense of acting contrary to domestic law. This position finds its most robust articulation in the writings of Hans Kelsen and has more recently been taken up by David Dyzenhaus in the context of his work on emergencies and legality. This paper seeks to demystify their arguments and ultimately contend that we can intelligibly speak of the state as a legal wrongdoer or a legally unauthorized actor.
The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
The Legal Basis Of Aboriginal Title, Brian Slattery
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This paper considers a range of differing approaches to the question of Aboriginal land rights in the light of the judgment of the B.C. Supreme Court in the Delgamuukw case.
Rights, Communities, And Tradition, Brian Slattery
Rights, Communities, And Tradition, Brian Slattery
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This paper argues that there is a close connection between basic human rights and communal bonds. It criticizes the philosophical views of Alan Gewirth and Alasdair MacIntyre, which in differing ways deny this connection.
Are Constitutional Cases Political?, Brian Slattery
Are Constitutional Cases Political?, Brian Slattery
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To argue that constitutional adjudication is political does not carry us very far unless we go on to specify what the pursuit of politics entails, the goals it seeks to attain, and the basic principles informing its practice. The word political has no clearly defined meaning in modern usage. Rather, it has the chameleon-like capacity to change colours so as to blend with a variety of different conceptual backgrounds. Of course, if we adopt an Aristotelian notion of politics as the pursuit of the common good of a community and the individual goods of its members, we can agree that …
The Importance Of Not Being Ernest, Allan C. Hutchinson
The Importance Of Not Being Ernest, Allan C. Hutchinson
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Formalists have long tried to develop a legal theory, based on the internal rationality of law, which would free it from the influences of instrumentality and ideology. Focussing on the philosophical proposals of Ernest Weinrib, the author argues that this goal is both illusory and undesirable. Weinrib's theory assumes rather than proves the existence of this rationality, which is simply defined as an interrelationship between form and content. In order to maintain the coherence of this fragile relationship, Weinrib is either forced to articulate his theory on such a level of abstration so as to be irrelevant or to reintroduce …
The Constitutional Guarantee Of Aboriginal And Treaty Rights, Brian Slattery
The Constitutional Guarantee Of Aboriginal And Treaty Rights, Brian Slattery
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This paper proposes a workable framework for the application of the constitutional provisions dealing with Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada.
Digest Of Important Canadian Cases Reported In 1972 In The Fields Of Public International Law And Conflict Of Laws, Jean-Gabriel Castel
Digest Of Important Canadian Cases Reported In 1972 In The Fields Of Public International Law And Conflict Of Laws, Jean-Gabriel Castel
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