Law Library News

Looking for something new? Here are some of the books we've recently added to our collection.

The Forgotten Fundamental Freedoms of the Charter

Dwight Newman (General Editor), Derek Ross (General Editor), Brian Bird (General Editor), Sarah E. Mix-Ross (Editor)
Human Rights Law

“Among the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by section 2 of the Charter, only a few have been paid significant attention. The others—freedom of conscience, thought, belief, opinion, the press, other media of communication, peaceful assembly, and association—have been largely forgotten to date. What do these freedoms protect? Why are they ‘fundamental’ to a liberal democracy, and how might they be realized? And what do we still need to learn about the meaning of freedom generally?

These questions and more are examined throughout this collection of essays, breaking new ground for human rights discourse in Canada and beyond and exploring the rich potential of the Charter’s ‘forgotten freedoms.’ A recurring theme throughout is that these freedoms must not simply be ‘remembered.’ If Canada is to be the free and democratic society contemplated by the Charter, these freedoms must also live and breathe within our constitutional practice.”

How Judges Judge Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making

Brian M. Barry
Judicial Process

“A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can affect how judges judge.

In How Judges Judge: Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making, Brian M. Barry explores how these factors, beyond the law, affect judges in their role. Case examples, judicial rulings, judges’ own self-reflections on their role and accounts from legal history complement this analysis to contextualise the research, make it more accessible and enrich the reader’s understanding and appreciation of judicial decision-making.”

Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System

Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal
Human rights/Queer theory

“In Queering Law and Order, Kevin Leo Yabut Nadal examines the state of LGBTQ people within the criminal justice system, through legal cases, academic research, and popular media. This book serves as both an academic resource and a call to action for scholars, researchers, and students interested in advocating for LGBTQ rights.”

 Sex Work and the New Zealand Model: Decriminalisation and Social Change

Edited by Lynzi Armstrong and Gillian Abel
Human rights law/Gender studies

“Using the evidence from New Zealand, this unique collection examines how decriminalisation is experienced by different groups of sex workers and reveals the enduring challenges for sex workers in this context. This is an invaluable contribution to the urgent debates regarding sex work laws and the global struggle to realise sex worker’s rights.”

Pathways of Reconciliation: Indigenous and Settler Approaches to Implementing the TRC’s Calls to Action

Edited by Aimee Craft and Paulette Regan
Indigenous law/Truth and Reconciliation

“Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Calls to Action in June 2015, governments, churches, non-profit, professional and community organizations, corporations, schools and universities, clubs and individuals have asked: ‘How can I/we participate in reconciliation?’ Recognizing that reconciliation is not only an ultimate goal, but a decolonizing process of journeying in ways that embody everyday acts of resistance, resurgence, and solidarity, coupled with renewed commitments to justice, dialogue, and relationship-building, Pathways of Reconciliation helps readers find their way forward.”

Other new titles:

• Governing Cyberspace: Behavior, Power, and Diplomacy
• International Law and the Protection of “Climate Refugees”
• Ecological Integrity in Science and Law
• Legal Protection for Traditional Knowledge: Towards a New Law for Indigenous Intellectual Property
• Inalienable Properties: The Political Economy of Indigenous Land Reform
• The Normative Order of the Internet: A Theory of Rule and Regulation Online
• Algorithms and Law
• Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets
• Nested Federalism and Inuit Governance in the Canadian Arctic
• Cyber Liability and Cyber Insurance in Canada
• Civil Frauds and Good Faith
• Digital Commerce in Canada
• The Canadian Law of Obligations: Access to Justice
• Introduction to the Canadian Law of Torts
• A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice
• Canadian Law of First Responders’ Liability
• The Forgotten Fundamental Freedoms of The Charter
• Catastrophic Impairment Law in Canada
• Moot: How to Win in Fake Court and Other Valuable Lessons in Legal Rhetoric
• General Principles of Canadian Insurance Law, 3rd Edition, Student Edition
• Judicial Review of Immigration Decisions