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Addressing the Jury: Achieving Fair Verdict in Personal Injury Cases, 3rd edition

Roger G. Oatley and Troy H. Lehman (LexisNexis, 2025)

From the publisher:

"Addressing the Jury: Achieving Fair Verdicts in Personal Injury Cases, 3rd Edition is the first and only Canadian book dedicated to practice before civil juries. Written by top expert litigators Roger Oatley and Troy Lehman, this practical and easy-to-read book provides extensive guidance on how to apply and benefit from the concepts of courtroom communication and persuasion."

Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten

edited by Rachel Rebouché (Cambridge, 2020)

From the publisher:

"This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision ... Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as its contemporary relevance, and each commentary also is authored by a respected scholar. The combination of a rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law."

Frustration of Contract

Bruce MacDougall (LexisNexis, 2025)

From the publisher:

"Frustration of Contract is a comprehensive treatment of the law of frustration in Canada and is the first book on this subject matter. Frustration is perhaps the strongest legal intervention in a contract bringing it to a termination when an unexpected catastrophic event makes the contract radically different from that to which the parties agreed ... [this book] examines what circumstances lead to frustration (and which do not) and discusses the consequences of frustration. It also examines the use of force majeure clauses that obviate the need for the doctrine of frustration."

Indigenous Intellectual Property: An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation

Val Napoleon, Rebecca Johnson, Richard Overstall, and Debra McKenzie (U of T Press, 2024)

From the publisher:

"Historically, Indigenous artistic, cultural, and societal expression has been identified and examined within Canadian or international legal regimes. This book identifies Indigenous intellectual property concerns as an Indigenous legal issue to be taken seriously within specific Indigenous legal orders. Indigenous Intellectual Property opens up complex discussions about existing Indigenous intellectual property law, and avoids the tendency to pigeonhole Indigenous intellectual property into a Western legal model ... The book carefully considers how the governance and civic value of intellectual property points to the unsuitability of the current state and international intellectual property legal regimes to many Indigenous intellectual property concerns. Ultimately, Indigenous Intellectual Property reveals the various ways in which to identify and understand law within Indigenous societies — through narrative and story analysis, observations of practices and ceremonies, and political and legal ordering."

The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements

edited by Geraldo Vidigal and Kathleen Claussen (Oxford, 2024)

From the publisher:

"Drawing on perspectives from different parts of the world and engaging experts in the law and practice of sustainability provisions, this volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the latest developments and innovations in international trade agreements. It also evaluates the development challenges that sustainability requirements pose for countries with limited resources and capacity, for whom lower labour and environmental regulatory costs have been a competitive asset ... The present volume explores the intersectional aspects of sustainability — such as gender equality, biodiversity, animal welfare, and Indigenous rights — in addition to the more traditional dimensions of sustainability, namely economic development, environmental conservation, and improvement of labour standards."

Other new titles:

• Business and Human Rights by Robert McCorquodale (Oxford, 2024)
• Canadian Master Tax Guide, 2025 (CCH Canada, 2025)
• Expert Evidence, 4th ed, by Glenn R. Anderson (LexisNexis, 2025)
• The Law of International Human Rights Protection, 2nd ed, by Walter Kälin and Jörg Künzli (Oxford, 2019)
• Trucanini's Stare: Reconsidering Dignity in Theory and Practice by Susan Marks (Cambridge, 2024)