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9780889119154

Lessons of Everyday Law/Le Droit Du Quotidien

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  • ISBN13:

    9780889119154

  • ISBN10:

    0889119155

  • Edition: Bilingual
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-05-01
  • Publisher: Strathy Language Unit
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Summary

The normative dilemmas facing citizens in their various roles as parents, children, neighbours, and members of small groups is explored.

Author Biography

Roderick Macdonald is the F. R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at McGill University.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction
Everyday Life and Everyday Law
3(16)
Suggestions for Further Reading
13(4)
PART ONE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF LAW
Introduction
17(2)
Law Day and Chocolate Bunnies
19(4)
Street-hockey, Skateboarding and Responsive Law
23(5)
Is Law about Issuing Orders or Making Rules?
28(5)
If it Goes without Saying, Does it Go Better when You Say it?
33(5)
Heads I Win
38(17)
Suggestions for Further Reading
43(10)
PART TWO: RULES
Introduction
53(2)
Sometimes It's Better just to Fix the Dock
55(4)
50th Anniversaries and Families
59(5)
Measure for Measure
64(5)
Legal Fictions - The Law's ``Little White Lies''
69(14)
Suggestions for Further Reading
73(8)
PART THREE: DECISIONS
Introduction
81(2)
...But Everyone Else Is Allowed to
83(4)
It's just a Legal Technicality
87(4)
Let's just Stick to the Rules
91(4)
It's not Fair, He Hit Me First!
95(4)
I Was Rolling on the Floor and it Fell in!
99(16)
Suggestions for Further Reading
104(9)
PART FOUR: CONCEPTS AND INSTITUTIONS
Introduction
113(2)
What You See Depends on Where You Stand
115(5)
Who Do You Think You Are Anyway?
120(5)
Can We Go to a Garage Sale this Weekend?
125(5)
Old Guards
130
Suggestions for Further Reading
135

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