Law

Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a group legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes; by the executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals may create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that adopt alternative ways of resolving disputes to standard court litigation. The creation of laws themselves …

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UBC: UBC Press · 15 November 2024 English

establishment, the ICC’s innovative arrangement of having an independent prosecutor continues to move law and international criminal jurisprudence forward and directly combats impunity for mass atrocities

socio-legal studies our Law and Society Series was established and rose to prominence. Te Law and Society Series Series explores law as a socially embedded phenomenon. It is premised on the understanding that the conventional conventional division of law from society creates false dichot- omies in thinking, scholarship, educational practice, and social life. Books in the series treat law and society as mutually constitutive and seek to scholarship emerging from interdisciplinary engagement of law with disciplines such as politics, social theory


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …

Cox 6 In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter from the Poor Law to the Present Steven KingIMAGINING WELFARE CHEATS from the Poor Law to the Present Fraudulent lives : imagining welfare cheats from the Poor Law to the present / Steven King. Names: King, Steven the period from 1601 (the founding of the Old Poor Law, the world’s first sustained national state welfare Poor Law and they were also joined together for the administrative purposes of the New Poor Law in 1834


UBC: UBC Press · 15 November 2024 English

Pentecostal Preacher Woman makes sense of a woman that secular feminists and scholars regularly despised during her time, and largely ignored after it – and the book is a delight …

woman “never really consented to being his common-law wife but wanted only to be his housekeeper. But birth mother’s family name and the name of the law frm that had arranged the adoption.33 These two


DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English

The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …

been a source of amusement to me. But there’s no law that says you can’t be a fighter and a lover too


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1829) both introduced and epitomized the great philosophical controversies of his age. His influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about …

a renowned physicist, his trained scientific mind en- couraged him to both prudence and to constantly challenge the very laws further out as Jacobi uses it to substantiate the impossibility for the human being to be described ac- cording to the laws Those laws – which only elaborates pos - sibility over possibility – disregard the very notion of unum-per-se: “the possibility


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …

6 In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Lives Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present Steven King 10 Slow Train to Arcadia sittings in hearing evidence from Mr Samuel Laing, Law and Corresponding Clerk of the Railway Department


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

university. The Faculty of Law has redesigned their entry programs by including law courses specific to the brother or sister-in-law (opposite sex) uq̓ wiyéws = brother or sister-in-law (same sex) lltsetsék = mother-in-law sexéx7e = father-in-law ̓ snek llcw = son-in-law sépe = daughter-in-law tsqwétsten able to speak their language. Land, identity, law, culture, and language are intertwined in Secwépemc people as identified in international law, constitutional law, and under the Treaties. 19. We call upon


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …

school diploma, were able to work from home. By law, employers had to create a safe work environment intervention. This hypothesis examines the role of the law and insurance as well as information and opt-out disciplinary; it incorporates economics and the law (market failure), social psychology (opinion-responsive) hypothesis (Indicators: technical nature of the risk, the law, insurance, information, and opt-out costs) Opinion-responsive failure hypothesis. The chapter examines the role of law and insurance and market dynamics during covid-19


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.

Cox 6 In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter Fraudulent Lives Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present Steven King 10 Slow Train to Arcadia prisoners and to lobby for changes in public policy and law. The second thread follows the changing legitimacy meant by the term prison discipline.10 In common law juris- dictions, prison discipline is at once a clearly systematically done-to or imposed-upon the prisoner, the case law around prison discipline identifies it as a specific


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English

“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …

to attend Indian Residential School.2 Colonial law demanded Clarence’s separation from his family and conditions, could be pulled in after the wheat. Colonial law, however, did not accommodate the harvest of both been treated like “Indians” under Canadian federal law— their children, like Anishinaabe children, would Elder Clarence Henry Jr. recognizes that colonial law has long barred the intergenerational transfer of shapes Anishinaabe identity.13 Unimpeded by colonial law, Manomin can unite families for harvesting season


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