Bora Laskin : : Bringing Law to Life / / Philip Girard.
In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (600 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. Starting Out -- PART II. The Academy -- PART III. Extra-curricular -- PART IV. Transitions -- PART V. The Supreme Court of Canada -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal (1965) and later Chief Justice of Canada (1973-1984). Throughout his professional career, he used the law to make Canada a better place for workers, racial and ethnic minorities, and the disadvantaged. As a judge, he sought to make the judiciary more responsive to modern Canadian expectations of justice and fundamental rights.In Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, Philip Girard chronicles the life of a man who, at all points of his life, was a fighter for a better Canada: he fought antisemitism, corporate capital, omnipotent university boards, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and his own judicial colleagues in an effort to modernize institutions and re-shape Canadian law. Girard exploits a wealth of previously untapped archival sources to provide, in vivid detail, a critical assessment of a restless man on an important mission. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442671522 9783110490954 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442671522 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Philip Girard. |