Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case / edited by David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran.
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 471 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442671669
- 1442671661
- 1282028901
- 9781282028906
- Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- Congresses
- Reparations for historical injustices -- Canada -- Congresses
- Chinese -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
- Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
- Emigration and immigration law -- Canada -- History -- Congresses
- Chinese Canadians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History
- Chinese Canadians -- Civil rights -- History
- Chinese Canadians -- Government policy -- History
- Chinese Canadians -- Government relations -- History
- Canadiens d'origine chinoise -- Droit -- Histoire
- Canadiens d'origine chinoise -- Droits -- Histoire
- Canadiens d'origine chinoise -- Politique gouvernementale -- Histoire
- Canadiens d'origine chinoise -- Relations avec l'État -- Histoire
- Canada -- Relations raciales
- Réparations des crimes de l'histoire -- Canada -- Congrès
- LAW -- Constitutional
- LAW -- Public
- LAW -- Emigration & Immigration
- Chinese -- Legal status, laws, etc
- Emigration and immigration law
- Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
- Reparations for historical injustices
- Canada
- Chinese Canadians
- 342.7108/73 22
- KE4479.A66 C35 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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."--Jacket.
Print version record.
""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Context and History""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation""; ""Litigating Injustice""; ""Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework""; ""Can We Do Wrong to Strangers?""; ""The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination""; ""Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice""; ""The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government""
""Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs""""Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress""; ""Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction""; ""Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice""; ""Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case""; ""The Juristic Force of Injustice""; ""Private Right and Public Wrong""; ""The Timing of Injustice""; ""Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment""
""A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States""""Time, Place, and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law""; ""Appendix I: Appellants' Factum""; ""Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada � Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""W""
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