Calling Power to Account : : Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head tax /

Calling Power to Account : : Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head tax / / ed. by David Dyzenhaus, Mayo Moran.

Courts today face a range of claims to redress historic injustice, including injustice perpetrated 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 Canadia...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Backhouse, Constance,
Dyzenhaus, David,
Eberts, Mary,
Go, Avvy,
Klimchuk, Dennis,
Lu, Catherine,
Macklin, Audrey,
Mclaren, John,
Moran, Mayo,
Rivers, Julian,
Sebok, Anthony J.,
Smith, Lionel,
Sossin, Lorne,
Webber, Jeremy,
HerausgeberIn:
Dyzenhaus, David,
Moran, Mayo,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2005
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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