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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442671669

Content: Calling Power to Account suggests 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.

Note: 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

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442671669

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442671669

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Format: 1 online resource (488 pages)

ISBN: 9781442671669 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Calling power to account : law, reparations and the Chinese Canadian head tax case. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2005 ISBN 9780802038081

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (xv, 471 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-02890-1 , 9786612028908 , 1-4426-7166-1

Content: "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.

Note: Description based upon print version of 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"" , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-3808-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-3872-7

Language: English

Keywords: History. ; Conference papers and proceedings.

DOI: 10.3138/9781442671669