Calling Power Into Account: Law, Reparations, And The Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case - Softcover

 
9780802038081: Calling Power Into Account: Law, Reparations, And The Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case
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ISBN 10: 0802038085 ISBN 13: 9780802038081
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetrated 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 Case as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims.

By placing both the discriminatory law and the judicial decisions in their historical context, some of the essays in this volume illuminate the larger patterns of discrimination and the sometimes surprising capacity of the courts of the day to respond to racism. A number of the contributors explore the implications of reparations claims for relations between the various branches of government while others examine the difficult questions such claims raise in both legal and political theory by placing the claims in a comparative or philosophical perspective.

Calling Power to Account suggests 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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Dyzenhaus is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Mayo Moran is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

David Dyzenhaus is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Mayo Moran is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802038085
ISBN 13 
9780802038081
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
471
Herausgeber
Dyzenhaus David, Moran Mayo
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