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“lisa strelein”

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  • Compromised Jurisprudence

    by Lisa Strelein ...
    Native title has dramatically altered the law and public policy in Australia. It has had a fundamental impact on social relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians and the courts have played a central role in its development, and continue to do so. Compromised Jurisprudence established itself as a well-priced and accessible introduction to the subjectof native title. This revised ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Beyond Blood

    Rethinking Indigenous Identity

    by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater ...
    The current Status criteria of theIndian Act contains descent-based rules akin to blood quantum that are particularly discriminatory against women and their descendants, which author Pamela Palmater argues will lead to the extinguishment of First Nations as legal and constitutional entities. Beginning with an historic overview of legislative enactments defining Indian status and their impact on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Canada and Aboriginal Canada Today - Le Canada et le Canada autochtone aujourd’hui

    Changing the Course of History - Changer le cours de l’histoire

    by The Right Honourable Paul Martin/Le très honorable Paul Martin Paul Martin ...
    Series series The Symons Medal Series/Collection de la Médaille Symons
    Dans la conférence prononcée comme récipiendaire de la médaille Symons en 2013, le très honorable Paul Martin, vingt-et-unième premier ministre du Canada, s’appuie sur tout le savoir et le vécu de sa remarquable carrière publique, afin d’expliquer le défi d’obtenir justice pour les peuples autochtones du Canada. Se penchant sur les racines historiques des enjeux actuels ainsi que les priorités ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks

    The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention

    by Paul Toohey ...
    Series Book 30 - Quarterly Essay
    When Mal Brough and John Howard announced the Northern Territory intervention in mid-2007, they proclaimed a child abuse emergency. In this riveting piece of reportage and analysis, Paul Toohey unpicks the rhetoric of emergency and tracks progress. One year on, have children been saved? Will Labor continue with the intervention? What are the reasons for the social crisis - the neglect and the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Coranderrk

    We will show the country

    by Giordano Nanni, Andrea James ...
    The battle for Coranderrk was one of the first sustained campaignsfor justice, land rights and self-determination. Proud of their culture, theircommunity and their award-winning farm, the Kulin people (led by William Barak)lobbied against the Aboriginal Protection Board and greedy local landowners, whowanted them removed. The authors foreground the events which led to the protestcampaign, the 1881 ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • What Makes Law

    An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

    by Liam Murphy ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law
    This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? The most important existing views are introduced, but the aim is not to survey the existing literature. Rather, this ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

    by Tim Rowse ...
    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aboriginal Tent Embassy

    Sovereignty, Black Power, Land Rights and the State

    Edited by Gary Foley, Andrew Schaap ...
    The 1972 Aboriginal Embassy was one of the most significant indigenous political demonstrations of the twentieth century. What began as a simple response to a Prime Ministerial statement on Australia Day 1972, evolved into a six-month political stand-off between radical Aboriginal activists and a conservative Australian government. The dramatic scenes in July 1972 when police forcibly removed the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Jurisprudence of Movement

    Common Law, Walking, Unsettling Place

    by Olivia Barr ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    Law moves, whether we notice or not. Set amongst a spatial turn in the humanities, and jurisprudence more specifically, this book calls for a greater attention to legal movement, in both its technical and material forms. Despite various ways the spatial turn has been taken up in legal thought, questions of law, movement and its materialities are too often overlooked. This book addresses this ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Observing Law through Systems Theory

    by Professor Richard Nobles, Emeritus Professor David Schiff ...
    Series series Legal Theory Today
    This book uses Niklas Luhmann's systems theory to explore how the legal system operates as one of modern society's subsystems.The authors demonstrate how this theory alters our understanding of some of the most important and controversial issues within law: the nature of judicial communication and legal argument; the claim that it can be right to disobey law; the character of legal pluralism and ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Harm to Others

    by Joel Feinberg ...
    Series series Moral Limits of the Criminal Law
    This first volume in the four-volume series The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law focuses on the "harm principle," the commonsense view that prevention of harm to persons other than the perpetrator is a legitimate purpose of criminal legislation. Feinberg presents a detailed analysis of the concept and definition of harm and applies it to a host of practical and theoretical issues, showing how the ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Indigenous Courts, Self-Determination and Criminal Justice

    by Valmaine Toki ...
    Series series Indigenous Peoples and the Law
    In New Zealand, as well as in Australia, Canada and other comparable jurisdictions, Indigenous peoples comprise a significantly disproportionate percentage of the prison population. For example, Maori, who comprise 15% of New Zealand’s population, make up 50% of its prisoners. For Maori women, the figure is 60%. These statistics have, moreover, remained more or less the same for at least the past ... Read more

    $49.99 USD