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Lawyers' Ethics and Professional Regulation, 3rd Edition

Richard Devlin, Alice Woolley, Brent Cotter, and John M. Law

This text is a comprehensive discussion of the professional responsibilities of lawyers in Canada.
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Analysis and Commentary

Meinhard Doelle, Daniel Klein, Maria Pia Carazo, Jane Bulmer, and Andrew Higham

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change. Signed in December 2015, it entered into force on 4th November 2016. Countries are moving into implementation, and efforts at all levels will be needed to fulfill its ambitious goals. The Paris Climate Agreement: Commentary and Analysis combines a comprehensive legal appraisal and critique of the new Agreement with a practical and structured commentary to all its Articles. Part I discusses the general context for the Paris Agreement, detailing the scientific, political, and social drivers behind it, providing an overview of the pre-existing regime, and tracking the history of the negotiations. It examines the evolution of key concepts such as common but differentiated responsibilities, and analyses the legal form of the Agreement and the nature of its provisions. Part II comprises individual chapters on each Article of the Agreement, with detailed commentary of the provisions which highlights central aspects from the negotiating history and the legal nature of the obligations. It describes the institutional arrangements and considerations for national implementation, providing practical advice and prospects for future development. Part III reflects on the Paris Agreement as a whole: its strengths and weaknesses, its potential for further development, and its relationship with other areas of public international law and governance. The book is an invaluable resource for academics and practitioners, policy makers, and actors in the private sector and civil society, as they negotiate the implementation of the Agreement in domestic law and policy.
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: Analysis and Commentary

Meinhard Doelle, Daniel Klein, Maria Pia Carazo, Jane Bulmer, and Andrew Higham

The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change.Signed in December 2015, it entered into force on 4th November 2016. Countries are moving into implementation, and efforts at all levels will be needed to fulfill its ambitious goals. The Paris Climate Agreement: Commentary and Analysis combines a comprehensive legal appraisal and critique of the new Agreement with a practical and structured commentary to all its Articles. Part I discusses the general context for the Paris Agreement, detailing the scientific, political, and social drivers behind it, providing an overview of the pre-existing regime, and tracking the history of the negotiations. It examines the evolution of key concepts such as common but differentiated responsibilities, and analyses the legal form of the Agreement and the nature of its provisions. Part II comprises individual chapters on each Article of the Agreement, with detailed commentary of the provisions which highlights central aspects from the negotiating history and the legal nature of the obligations. It describes the institutional arrangements and considerations for national implementation, providing practical advice and prospects for future development. Part III reflects on the Paris Agreement as a whole: its strengths and weaknesses, its potential for further development, and its relationship with other areas of public international law and governance. The book is an invaluable resource for academics and practitioners, policy makers, and actors in the private sector and civil society, as they negotiate the implementation of the Agreement in domestic law and policy.
Canadian Health Law and Policy

Joanna Erdman

Much more than the study of laws relevant to the area of medicine, Canadian Health Law and Policy draws together the legal and policy issues that are relevant to human health, and sheds new light on emerging and continuing trends. Written by Canada's leading health law scholars, the fifth edition of this unique work provides expert commentary and analysis on a wide range of emerging health law related issues. It is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand the developing and critical issues in health law and policy.
Canadian Health Law and Policy

Joanna Erdman, Vanessa Gruben, and Erin Nelson

Much more than the study of laws relevant to the area of medicine, Canadian Health Law and Policy draws together the legal and policy issues that are relevant to human health, and sheds new light on emerging and continuing trends. Written by Canada's leading health law scholars, the fifth edition of this unique work provides expert commentary and analysis on a wide range of emerging health law related issues. It is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand the developing and critical issues in health law and policy.
Canada and the Rule of Law: 150 Years After Confederation

Janine L'Espérance and Richard Devlin

In Canada, 2017 is a significant year: it marks the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, and the 35th anniversary of the enactment of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It offers the occasion to reflect on Canadian society, culture, and institutions. This ICJ Canada publication asks: what does the rule of law in Canada mean today? It contains short essays by jurists from across Canada, who have unique perspectives on the rule of law.
Aquaculture Law and Policy: Global, Regional and National Perspectives

Nigel Bankes, Irene Dahl, and David VanderZwaag

With aquaculture operations fast expanding around the world, the adequacy of aquaculture-related laws and policies has become a hot topic. This much-needed book provides a three-part guide to the complex regulatory landscape. The expert contributors first review the international legal dimensions, including chapters on law of the sea, trade, and access and benefit sharing. Part Two offers regional perspectives, discussing the EU and regional fisheries management organizations. The final part contains eleven case studies exploring how leading aquaculture producing countries have been putting sustainability principles into practice.
Philosophy of Law in the Arctic

Dawid Bunikowski, Jaakko Husa, Diana Ginn, Ko Hasegawa, Karol Dobrzeniecki, Patrick Dillon, Francis Joy, Rene Kuppe, Leena Heinämäki, Maura Hanrahan, Tom Svensson, Makoto Usami, Agnieszka Szpak, Rebecca Johnson, and Brendan Tobin

This is rather the first book with a title "Philosophy of Law in the Arctic" in the literature. This philosophy of law is a very wide and cross-disciplinary area of research: between law, philosophy, anthropology, history, cultural ecology or environmental studies. I have no doubts that we have done such kind of philosophy in the academia so far, not using this term, but keeping up with the concept, the idea.

The book is a result of research conducted by many members of the Sub-group of Philosophy of Law in the Arctic (the University of the Arctic). This team seems a very interdisciplinary academic group. Our cooperation bears fruit.

The aim of the book is to define and systematise Arctic legal philosophy problems. In this book, there are five thematic parts. Each part consists of two-five short articles (we can call them also chapters or papers). These are the sixteen short articles all together. Each article consists of between six and fourteen pages. So going further, what we see in the book then is, in fact, a set of both theoretical and practical papers. The topics of these papers (chapters) are different as the authors are different while representing a wide-ranging scope of academic disciplines or specialisations. Each paper is followed by a relevant bibliography, which might be helpful for other scholars interested in the field. The seventeen writers come from such countries as Finland (4), Norway (1), Canada (3), Poland (3), Japan (2), Austria (1), Ireland (1), and England (2). Some of them have Arctic indigenous roots (3). In the end of the book, there is a very original attachment - the map of Arctic Canada.
Canadian Maritime Law

Aldo Chircop

Canadian Maritime Law is the leading scholarly text and reference work on maritime law in Canada. It covers the full scope of admiralty, shipping, and navigation issues in the Canadian and international contexts. Since the first edition, maritime law as legislated, judicially developed, and practised in Canada has evolved substantially. Four editors led a team of twenty-eight scholars, practitioners, and other field specialists from across Canada to produce a comprehensive text accompanied by extensive lists of legislation, international treaties, and cases, along with a detailed index. For students and practitioners new to the field, the text uses plain language and defines all technical legal and shipping terms. For experienced legal and other practitioners, it affords the means to analyze maritime issues according to Canadian law, with due notice of its divergence from US and UK law and practice. This text provides insights into the Canadian perspectives, content, experience, and practice in this field and will appeal to legal practitioners, government officials, academics, students, and all others engaged with the regulation of all types of navigation and shipping. Practitioners and scholars in other countries interested in international and comparative maritime law will also benefit from this fully updated work.
Canadian Maritime Law

Aldo Chircop

Canadian Maritime Law is the leading scholarly text and reference work on maritime law in Canada. It covers the full scope of admiralty, shipping, and navigation issues in the Canadian and international contexts. Since the first edition, maritime law as legislated, judicially developed, and practised in Canada has evolved substantially. Four editors led a team of twenty-eight scholars, practitioners, and other field specialists from across Canada to produce a comprehensive text accompanied by extensive lists of legislation, international treaties, and cases, along with a detailed index. For students and practitioners new to the field, the text uses plain language and defines all technical legal and shipping terms. For experienced legal and other practitioners, it affords the means to analyze maritime issues according to Canadian law, with due notice of its divergence from US and UK law and practice. This text provides insights into the Canadian perspectives, content, experience, and practice in this field and will appeal to legal practitioners, government officials, academics, students, and all others engaged with the regulation of all types of navigation and shipping. Practitioners and scholars in other countries interested in international and comparative maritime law will also benefit from this fully updated work.
Criminal Procedure

Steve Coughlan

This book sets out and examines the law governing criminal procedure in Canada. It explains the body of rules and principles that govern the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of any offence enacted by Parliament for which an accused person would have a criminal record if found guilty by a court exercising jurisdiction under the Criminal Code. These include such things as the rules by which police powers are exercised, the right to counsel, search warrants, interim release, and procuring attendance of witnesses. This third edition updates the law in all areas of criminal procedure. The chapter on powers of search and seizure has been completely rewritten to take into account significant new decisions, including, among others, Spencer, on internet anonymity; Vu, on searches of computers; TELUS Communications, on text messaging and wiretap authorizations; MacDonald, on safety searches; and Fearon, on search of cell phones incident to arrest. It also covers the various statutory changes made to search powers by the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act.
Annual Review of Criminal Law 2015

Steve Coughlan, Gerry Ferguson, and Michelle Lawrence
Regulating Judges: Beyond Independence and Accountability

Richard Devlin

Regulating Judges presents a novel approach to judicial studies. It goes beyond the traditional clash of judicial independence versus judicial accountability. Drawing on regulatory theory, Richard Devlin and Adam Dodek argue that judicial regulation is multi-faceted and requires us to consider the complex interplay of values, institutional norms, procedures, resources and outcomes. Inspired by this conceptual framework, the book invites scholars from 19 jurisdictions to describe and critique the regulatory regimes for a variety of countries from around the world. This innovative and provocative analysis of the many different ways that judiciaries around the world are regulated covers common law, civil law and other legal systems, and the developed and developing world. Contributors include a diverse talent pool of established scholars and new voices for a globally inclusive comparative examination of judiciaries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. The overall conclusion is that the regulation of judges is very much a work in progress, and that a variety of actors bear responsibility for moving the project forward. Scholars in the fields of law, social sciences, regulation theory, and public administration will find Regulating Judges an impactful read, as will regulators, public policy makers and analysts, and judges themselves.
Regulating Judges: Beyond Independence and Accountability

Richard Devlin and Adam M. Dodek

Regulating Judges presents a novel approach to judicial studies. It goes beyond the traditional clash of judicial independence versus judicial accountability. Drawing on regulatory theory, Richard Devlin and Adam Dodek argue that judicial regulation is multi-faceted and requires us to consider the complex interplay of values, institutional norms, procedures, resources and outcomes. Inspired by this conceptual framework, the book invites scholars from 19 jurisdictions to describe and critique the regulatory regimes for a variety of countries from around the world.
Canadian Maritime Law

Edgar Richard Gold, Aldo Chircop, Hugh Kindred, and A William Moreira

Canadian Maritime Law is the leading scholarly text and reference work on maritime law in Canada. It covers the full scope of admiralty, shipping, and navigation issues in the Canadian and international contexts. Since the first edition, maritime law as legislated, judicially developed, and practised in Canada has evolved substantially. Four editors led a team of twenty-eight scholars, practitioners, and other field specialists from across Canada to produce a comprehensive text accompanied by extensive lists of legislation, international treaties, and cases, along with a detailed index.

For students and practitioners new to the field, the text uses plain language and defines all technical legal and shipping terms. For experienced legal and other practitioners, it affords the means to analyze maritime issues according to Canadian law, with due notice of its divergence from US and UK law and practice.

This text provides insights into the Canadian perspectives, content, experience, and practice in this field and will appeal to legal practitioners, government officials, academics, students, and all others engaged with the regulation of all types of navigation and shipping. Practitioners and scholars in other countries interested in international and comparative maritime law will also benefit from this fully updated work.
Reconciliation & Canada’s Indian Residential Schools in Context: Legal Perspectives, Government Documents & Related Texts

Jennifer Llewellyn, M. DeGagné, and G. Lowry

Reconciliation & Canada's Indian Residential Schools in Context includes a selection of government documents, legal cases, and critical commentary related to the subject of the Indian Residential School System (IRSS). This comprehensive volume, while far from exhaustive, provides students and scholars of Canadian political and legal histories, Indigenous governance, Aboriginal healing, truth and reconciliation with a broad basis for understanding the impact of the IRSS on Survivors and their communities and the larger socio-political context for reconciliation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in Canada.
Comparative Tax Law

Victor Thuronyi, Kim Brooks, and Borbala Kolozs

Comparative Tax Law, now presented in an updated new edition, focuses on the essential patterns of tax law in different jurisdictions across the globe. Although the details of tax law are literally endless—differing not only from jurisdiction to jurisdiction but also from day-to-day changes in the working of the system—structures and patterns exist across tax systems that can be understood with relative ease. Considering the dynamic nature of tax law, whose rate of change exceeds that of any other field of law, the author’s clear identification of the fundamental structures and also the underlying patterns that all tax systems have in common—as well as where the differences lie—guides the reader and offers resources for further research.

What’s in this book:

The authors elucidate the commonalities and differences across countries in areas including (much of the detail is new to the second edition):
- general anti-avoidance rules;
- court decisions striking down tax laws as violating constitutional rules against retroactivity, unequal treatment of equals, confiscation, and undue vagueness;
- statutory interpretation;
- inflation adjustment rules and the allowance for corporate equity
- value added tax systems;
- concepts such as “tax”, “capital gain”, “tax avoidance”, and “partnership”;
- corporate-shareholder tax systems;
- the relationship between tax and financial accounting;
- taxation of investment income;
- tax authorities’ ability to obtain and process information about taxpayers; and
- systems of appeals from tax assessments.
The information and analysis pulls together valuable material which is scattered over disparate literature, much of it not available in English.

How this will help you:

This book provides an immensely useful introduction to the core common knowledge that any well-informed tax lawyer must have about comparative tax law in our times. In addition to its value to tax law specialists dealing with details in other tax specialties, and to tax lawyers seeking a practical understanding of modes of thought and prevailing opinions in countries other than their own, the book provides particularly welcome additional knowledge to practitioners confronting cross-border taxation issues.
Routledge Handbook of National and Regional Ocean Policies

Biliana Cicin-Sain, David VanderZwaag, and Miriam C. Balgos

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

All chapters follow a common framework for policy analysis. While most coastal nations of the world already have a variety of sectoral policies in place to manage different uses of the ocean (such as shipping, fishing, oil and gas development), in the last two decades, the coastal nations covered in the book have undertaken concerted efforts to articulate and implement an integrated, ecosystem-based vision for the governance of ocean areas under their jurisdiction. This includes goals and procedures to harmonize existing uses and laws, to foster sustainable development of ocean areas, to protect biodiversity and vulnerable resources and ecosystems, and to coordinate the actions of the many government agencies that are typically involved in oceans affairs.

The book highlights the serious conflicts of use in most national ocean zones and the varying attempts by nations to follow the prescriptions emanating from the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention and the outcomes of the 1992, 2002, and 2012 sustainable development summits. The interrelationship among uses and processes in the coast and ocean requires that ocean governance be integrated, precautionary, and anticipatory. Overall, the book provides a definitive state-of-the-art review and analysis of national and regional ocean policies around the world.
Canadian Income Tax Law, 5th Edition

David Duff, Lisa Phillips, Benjamin Alarie, Kim Brooks, and Geoffrey Loomer

Now in its fifth edition, this work provides an overview of the foundations of tax law and the critical cases which have shaped each component of the tax regime, uniquely combining the best features of both a textbook and casebook. Offering more depth of analysis and scope of coverage than other income tax law casebooks, it contains the authors' analysis of the law, yet unlike other textbooks, it includes the text of judicial decisions, enabling readers to critically and effectively assess the law. Cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, this book's expert commentary, detailed explanatory notes and extensive case excerpts, will be of interest to tax lawyers, legal academics and law students.
Reconciliation & Canada’s Indian Residential Schools in Context: Legal Perspectives, Government Documents & Related Texts

Jennifer Llewellyn, M. DeGagné, and G. Lowry
International Law: Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 8th Edition

Jutta Brunnée, Robert Currie, Hugh Kindred, and Phillip Saunders

International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 8th Edition emphasizes the experience and practice of international law from a Canadian perspective both domestically and in foreign relations. A publication of long-standing quality and distinguished reputation, this seminal text has been repeatedly cited as an authority in the Supreme Court of Canada and lower courts for decades. It delivers a comprehensive overview of the foundational concepts, principles, sources, and institutions of the international legal system, and examines specific subject areas of importance in the world today.

The eighth edition of International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada has been completely reorganized, largely rewritten, and streamlined to offer a more accessible presentation of the subject matter. A new chapter has been added to address humanitarian law and the regulation of armed conflict to protect civilians. All aspects of international law covered in the previous edition have been incorporated, and updated with extracts and discussion of recent treaty developments, case law, and United Nations actions.

In this edition, authors’ notes and questions are presented separately, enabling readers to follow the commentary on the primary legal sources before engaging in a deeper analysis of the issues and themes involved. The text is supported by an online index, and the accompanying ebook contains direct links to online sources for all of the treaties and case reports referenced throughout the book. This is the only publication that can offer its reader the guidance and legal sources required to develop a solid and multifaceted understanding of international law from a Canadian perspective.
Law Beyond Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in an Age of Globalization

Robert Currie, Stephen Coughlan, Hugh Kindred, and Teresa Scassa

This book is about the reach of law beyond state borders from a Canadian perspective. It investigates the scope of the legal and practical power of Canada to assert, and to respond to foreign assertions of, extraterritorial jurisdiction. Ultimately, the authors articulate a theoretical and analytical framework to aid decision making by law and policy makers when Canada is faced with the issue of whether to act extraterritorially. The book revisits Canadian jurisdictional principles and practices in a way that will resonate with lawyers and legal policy makers of all kinds.
Law Beyond Borders: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in an Age of Globalization

Robert J. Currie, Steve Coughlan, Hugh M. Kindred, and Teresa Scassa

This book is about the reach of law beyond state borders from a Canadian perspective. It investigates the scope of the legal and practical power of Canada to assert, and to respond to foreign assertions of, extraterritorial jurisdiction. Ultimately, the authors articulate a theoretical and analytical framework to aid decision making by law and policy makers when Canada is faced with the issue of whether to act extraterritorially. The book revisits Canadian jurisdictional principles and practices in a way that will resonate with lawyers and legal policy makers of all kinds.
Restorative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding

Jennifer Llewellyn and D. Philpott

All over the world the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer multiplicity of practices involved in repairing past harms. Progress toward the resolution of these dilemmas requires far more than reforming institutions and practices; rather, it requires clear thinking about the more basic questions: What is justice? And how is it related to the building of peace? The twin concepts of reconciliation and restorative justice, both involving the holistic restoration of right relationship, contain not only a compelling logic of justice but also great promise for resolving peacebuilding’s tensions and for constructing and assessing its institutions and practices. This volume furthers this potential by developing not only the core content of these concepts but also their implications for accountability, forgiveness, reparations, traditional practices, human rights, and international law. While the volume’s central orientation is theory, it contains much of interest to a wide range of scholars as well as practitioners. It is both interdisciplinary and accessibly written. It situates its analysis in countries as diverse as South Africa, El Salvador, Canada, and East Timor and in the work of institutions and communities such as the United Nations, the Catholic Church, various indigenous communities, and the international law community. It contains chapters by leading scholars of restorative justice, international law, transitional justice, political philosophy, and theology.
Restorative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding

Jennifer Llewellyn and Daniel Philpott

All over the world the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer multiplicity of practices involved in repairing past harms. Progress toward the resolution of these dilemmas requires far more than reforming institutions and practices; rather, it requires clear thinking about the more basic questions: What is justice? And how is it related to the building of peace? The twin concepts of reconciliation and restorative justice, both involving the holistic restoration of right relationship, contain not only a compelling logic of justice but also great promise for resolving peacebuilding’s tensions and for constructing and assessing its institutions and practices. This volume furthers this potential by developing not only the core content of these concepts but also their implications for accountability, forgiveness, reparations, traditional practices, human rights, and international law. While the volume’s central orientation is theory, it contains much of interest to a wide range of scholars as well as practitioners. It is both interdisciplinary and accessibly written. It situates its analysis in countries as diverse as South Africa, El Salvador, Canada, and East Timor and in the work of institutions and communities such as the United Nations, the Catholic Church, various indigenous communities, and the international law community. It contains chapters by leading scholars of restorative justice, international law, transitional justice, political philosophy, and theology.