Eight academics from various Canadian & American Universities offer their responses to attacks on the rule of law, take stock of its present predicament, & evaluate its significance & future prospects.

The Rule of Law: Ideal or Ideology

Hutchinson, Allan C.

Transnational Pub Inc

Is Eating People Wrong?: Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World

Legal History

Cambridge University Press

Citizens and Politics: Perspectives from Political Psychology (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology)

Citizens and Politics: Perspectives from Political Psychology brings together some of the current research on citizen decision making. It addresses the questions of citizen political competence from different political psychology perspectives. Some of the authors in this volume look to affect and emotions to determine how people reach political judgments, others to human cognition and reasoning. Still others focus on perceptions or basic political attitudes such as political ideology. Several demonstrate the impact of values on policy preferences. The collection features chapters from some of the most talented political scientists in the country.

This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history. Offering fresh and original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book demonstrates that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context. It reveals that, like life, law is an organic process and that common law is a perpetual work-in-progress.

Evolution and the Common Law

This book offers a radical challenge to all existing accounts of the common law's development. Contrary to received jurisprudential wisdom, it maintains there is no grand theory which will explain satisfactorily the dynamic interactions of change and stability in the common law's history. Offering fresh and original readings of Charles Darwin's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, the book demonstrates that law is a rhetorical activity that can only be properly appreciated in its historical and political context. It reveals that, like life, law is an organic process and that common law is a perpetual work-in-progress.

Waiting for Coraf: A Critique of Law and Rights

Reference

Univ of Toronto Pr

The enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 was celebrated as the harbinger of a new dawn in Canadian democratic politics. In this book, Allan Hutchinson contends that it was and continues to be a serious mistake. In his central argument he shows that, far from enhancing civic life, the Charter has attenuated both its practice and potential. He extends his argument to rights litigation in general, showing how 'rights-talk' actually betrays the cause of democracy. Although primarily focusing on Canadian cases and writings, Hutchinson raises concerns that stretch well beyond Canada's boundaries. He condemns the assumptions and institutions associated with liberalism generally and shows how even critics of constitutional decision-making remain within flawed liberal premises. The book's coup de grace lies in its analysis of some leading decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, revealing the extent to which the Court has tendentiously interpreted many supposedly fundamental rights and freedoms. Thus exposing the constitutional enactment of rights as an elaborate legal mechanism that lulls citizens into political quietism, Hutchinson champions a style of politics that engages the virtues of democratic dialogue over the vices of rights-talk. With this work Hutchinson has created a powerfully deconstructive expose of the unfulfilled promise of the Charter, offering constructive suggestions for a change of democratic focus. This is a persuasive and vital critique, whose influence will reach beyond law schools into the heart of contemporary political debate.

Rules & Procedures

Critical Legal Studies

Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 1999] Watson, Garry D.; Bogart, W. A.; Hutchinson, Allan C.; Mosher, Janet E.; Pinos, Timothy; Walker, Janet ... 0920722954

The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials

Walker, Janet

Bogart, W.A.

Watson, Garry D.

Mosher, Janet E.

Pinos, Timothy

Emond Montgomery

This collection of essays (written by legal academics and students) is a set of responses to 'The Canengusian Connection: The Kaleidoscope of Tort Theory' by Allan Hutchinson and Derek Morgan (which first appeared in 1984).   As the contributions to this collection demonstrate, 'The Canengusian Connection' continues to throw light on negligence law, other branches of accident compensation law, and public law.  But, more importantly, the essays in this edition of "The Journal Jurisprudence" show that Hutchinson and Morgan have written an essay that encourages reflection on and original responses to the debates that unfold in each of these areas of law.

The Journal Jurisprudence, Vol. 7: The Canengusian Connection

Arvind, TT

Bennett, Thomas

Turton, Gemma

O'Callaghan, Patrick

D'Souza, Aron Ping

Mullender, Richard

Pendersen, Ole

Siu, Man Chun

Mickiewicz, Emilia

Legal Theory & Systems

The Elias Clark Group

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