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Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case
- Title
- Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case / edited by David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran.
- Publication
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xv, 471 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Mack v. Attorney General of Canada : equality, history, and reparation / David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran -- Litigating injustice / Avvy Go -- Legal discrimination against the Chinese in Canada : the historical framework / Constance Backhouse -- Can we do wrong to strangers? / Audrey Macklin -- The head tax case and the rule of law : the historical thread of judicial resistance to 'legalized' discrimination / John McLaren -- The limits of constitutionalism : requiring moral behaviour from government / Mary Eberts -- Delivering the goods and the good : repairing moral wrongs / Catherine Lu -- Rights and wrongs, institutions and time : species of historic injustice and their modes of redress / Jeremy Webber -- Redress for unjust state action : an equitable approach to the public/private distinction / Lorne Sossin -- Gross statutory injustice and the Canadian head tax case / Julian Rivers -- The juristic force of injustice / David Dyzenhaus -- The timing of injustice / Lionel Smith -- Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the structure of the action in unjust enrichment / Dennis Klimchuk -- A brief history of mass restitution litigation in the United States / Anthony J. Sebok -- Time, place, and values : Mack and the influence of the Charter on private law / Mayo Moran -- App. I. Appellants' factum -- App II. Mack v. Attorney General of Canada - judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal.
- ISBN
- 0802038727 (bound) :
- 0802038085 (pbk.) :
- OCLC
- ocm57638196
- SCSB-5216400
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries