Calling Power to Account

Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head tax

David Dyzenhaus, Mayo Moran (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

450 Seiten

2005
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-3808-1 (ISBN)

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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 Canadian Head Tax Case as a focal point for examining the historical, legal, and philosophical issues raised by such claims.

By placing both the discriminatory law and the judicial decisions in their historical context, some of the essays in this volume illuminate the larger patterns of discrimination and the sometimes surprising capacity of the courts of the day to respond to racism. A number of the contributors explore the implications of reparations claims for relations between the various branches of government while others examine the difficult questions such claims raise in both legal and political theory by placing the claims in a comparative or philosophical perspective.

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.

David Dyzenhaus is a professor in the Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Mayo Moran is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.

Preface and Acknowledgments

Contributors

Context and History

Mack v. Attorney General of Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation

David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran

Litigating Injustice

Avvy Go

Legal Discrimination against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework

Constance Backhouse

Can We Do Wrong to Strangers?

Audrey Macklin

The Head Tax Case and the Rule of Law: The Historical Thread of Judicial Resistance to 'Legalized' Discrimination

John McLaren

Limits on Institutional Capacity to Address Injustice

The Limits of Constitutionalism: Requiring Moral Behaviour from Government

Mary Eberts

Delivering the Goods and the Good: Repairing Moral Wrongs

Catherine Lu

Rights and Wrongs, Institutions and Time: Species of Historic Injustice and Their Modes of Redress

Jeremy Webber

Redress for Unjust State Action: An Equitable Approach to the Public/Private Distinction

Lorne Sossin

Legal Theory and Gross Statutory Injustice

Gross Statutory Injustice and the Canadian Head Tax Case

Julian Rivers

The Juristic Force of Injustice

David Dyzenhaus

Private Right and Public Wrong

The Timing of Injustice

Lionel Smith

Mack v. Attorney General of Canada and the Structure of the Action in Unjust Enrichment

Dennis Klimchuk

A Brief History of Mass Restitution Litigation in the United States

Anthony J. Sebok

Time, Place, and Values: Mack and the Influence of the Charter on Private Law

Mayo Moran

Appendix I: Appellants' Factum

Appendix II: Mack v. Attorney General of Canada - Judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.10.2005
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	728 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Steuern / Steuerrecht
ISBN-10	0-8020-3808-5 / 0802038085
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-3808-1 / 9780802038081
Zustand	Neuware