- Rethinking the Welfare State: The Prospects for Government by Voucher - Dean Ron Daniels and Professor Michael Trebilcock
- From Enforcement and Prevention to Civic Engagement: Research on Community Safety - Professor Jim Phillips (co-edited with Professor Bruce Kidd, Dean, Faculty of Physical Education & Health, U of T)
- Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case - Co-edited by Professors David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran
- Hard Choices, Soft Law: Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance - Professor Michael Trebilcock (co-editor with Professor John J. Kirton, U of T Political Science)
- Taking Public Universities Seriously - Co-edited by Frank Iacobucci (89 LL.D.), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Interim President of the University of Toronto and Carolyn Tuohy, Vice-President, Government and Institutional Relations, University of Toronto
- Regulatory and Corporate Liability: From Due Diligence to Risk Management - Professor Kent Roach (with the Honourable Todd L. Archibald, Superior Court of Justice, and Kenneth E. Jull, Adjunct Professor, York University)
Rethinking the Welfare State: The Prospects for Government by Voucher
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This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada. The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables policy objectives to be achieved in a more innovative, efficient and cheaper way. They also examine the effectiveness of the voucher system as a solution to problematic welfare concerns. The voucher system, which includes all forms of government subsidy, whether in the form of tax deductions, credits or means-tested consumer entitlements, places the resources directly into the hands of citizens and allows them, rather than a government agent, to determine which goods they will consume from competing private suppliers.
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From Enforcement and Prevention to Civic Engagement: Research on Community Safety
Professor Jim Phillips (co-edited with Professor Bruce Kidd, Dean, Faculty of Physical Education & Health, U of T)
From the publisher: Toronto Mayor David Miller has placed community safety at the centre of his strategy to revitalize the city, appointing a blue-ribbon Panel on Community Safety to address an apparent crisis in youth violence. This collection of papers, authored by academics from the University of Toronto, York University, and elsewhere, was first presented at a community colloquium in the summer of 2004. U of T Professors Jim Phillips and Bruce Kidd introduce this research project. The book includes the most up-todate research on the challenges of youth violence and community safety from the perspectives of the criminal justice system, public education, and the world of recreation.
Topics include issues such as trends in homicide in Toronto, youth gangs, crime prevention, inclusive communities, midnight basketball, zero tolerance, and community-school relationships.
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Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations, and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case
From the publisher: 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.
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Hard Choices, Soft Law: Voluntary Standards in Global Trade, Environment and Social Governance
Professor Michael Trebilcock (co-editor with Professor John J. Kirton, U of T Political Science)
From the publisher: Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas. This key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law and trade, environment and labour values in the WTO and NAFTA, and in the prospective Millennium Round. Then, using the forestry sector - a realm where formal international law remains largely absent - the book provides a detailed examination of the role of soft law in action. It demonstrates how soft and hard law can be combined to promote trade, environmental and social cohesion, in ways that also permit sustainable development. Topics include the emerging role of voluntary standards and codes of conduct in international government regimes, in contexts such as sustainable forestry, labour standards, the environment and corporate-social responsibility.
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Taking Public Universities Seriously
Co-edited by Frank Iacobucci ('89 LL.D.), former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Interim President of the University of Toronto and Carolyn Tuohy, Vice-President, Government and Institutional Relations, University of Toronto
From the publisher: The Government of Ontario announced a comprehensive review of the design and funding of the province's post-secondary education system, chaired by former premier Bob Rae. In response to the "Rae Review," U of T convened a conference in December 2004 to focus on the evolving role of the public university in industrialized democracies, and the implications of this role for creating optimal government policy. The conference involved leading policy makers, university administrators, and scholars from Canada and abroad, including U of T law professors Michael Trebilcock, David Dyzenhaus, Andrew Green, Lorne Sossin, Sujit Choudhry, David Duff, Ben Alarie, Arthur Ripstein and Dean Ron Daniels. Taking Public Universities Seriously includes all the papers given at this conference. Some of the topics discussed include the rationale for funding public universities, the proper role of tuition in the funding of higher education, and the models for student assistance.
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Regulatory and Corporate Liability: From Due Diligence to Risk Management
Professor Kent Roach (with the Honourable Todd L. Archibald, Superior Court of Justice, and Kenneth E. Jull, Adjunct Professor, York University)
From the publisher: This publication is one of the first resources in Canada to look at regulatory and criminal liability as it relates to corporations. It is also among the first to offer an in-depth analysis of Bill C-45, an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Criminal Liability of Organizations), which could hold organizations criminally liable for their shortcomings. The book looks at how to enhance due diligence systems within regulated organizations as well as providing methods to reduce clients' risk of prosecution for regulatory and criminal breaches. It also contains expert guidance and insightful analysis on topics such as the basis for liability, both regulatory and criminal, and how the Charter and principles of sentencing will impact a client's particular situation.
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