Introduction to Law and Society

Brian Z. Tamanaha, “Understanding Legal Pluralism: Past to Present, Local to Global,” Sydney Law Review 30 (2008), selected passages.

The Institutes of Justinian, translated by Thomas Collett Sandars, 7th ed. (1883), pp. 5–13.

Jean-Étienne-Marie Portalis, “Preliminary Address on the First Draft of the Civil Code” (1801), Department of Justice translation.

William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1 (1765), pp. 68–74.

Peter G. Stein, “Roman Law, Common Law, and Civil Law,” Tulane Law Review 66 (1992), sections II–IV.

Philip Girard, Jim Phillips and R. Blake Brown, A History of Law in Canada, volume 1. University of Toronto Press, 2018, chapter 1.

Patrick Macklem, “Indigenous Peoples and the Ethos of Legal Pluralism in Canada,” From Recognition to Reconciliation. University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 17–34.

Glen Sean Coulthard, “Five Theses on Indigenous Resurgence and Decolonization,” Red Skin, White Masks. University of Minnesota Press, 2014, pp. 165–179.

Southwind v Canada, 2021 SCC 28.

Avner Levin and Asher Alkoby, “Shouldn’t the Bench Be a Mirror? The Diversity of the Canadian Judiciary,” International Journal of the Legal Profession 26 (2019), pp. 69–88.

Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs Canada, Supreme Court of Canada Appointment Process—2023, qualifications and FAQs.

R v Kahsai, 2023 SCC 20.

Marc Galanter, “Why the ‘Haves’ Come out Ahead,” Law & Society Review 9 (1974), selected sections.

Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters, Access to Civil & Family Justice: A Roadmap for Change (2013), part 1.

David Lundgren, Inaccessible Justice (2023), introduction, chapter 1 and conclusion.

Terry Skolnik, “Criminal Justice Reform: A Transformative Agenda,” Alberta Law Review 59 (2022), sections I–III.

Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley and Céline Bellot, Red Zones. Cambridge University Press, 2020, chapter 8.

R v Czornobaj, 2014 QCCS 6709.

Kosoian v Société de transport de Montréal, 2019 SCC 59.

Donoghue v Stevenson, [1932] AC 562.

Margaret Jane Radin, Boilerplate. Princeton University Press, 2013, prologue and chapter 1.

Douez v Facebook, Inc., 2017 SCC 33.

Quebec (Attorney General) v A, 2013 SCC 5.

AC v Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services), 2009 SCC 30.

John Locke, “Of Property,” Two Treatises of Government (1690), pp. 243–263.

James Boyle, The Public Domain. Yale University Press, 2008, chapter 3.

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, specified sections of the Constitution Act, 1982.

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), preamble and specified articles.