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In any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal (1965) and later Chief Justice of Canada (1973-1984). Throughout his professional career, he used the law to make Canada a better place for workers, racial and ethnic minorities, and the disadvantaged. As a judge, he sought to make the judiciary more responsive to modern Canadian expectations of justice and fundamental rights.In Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life, Philip Girard chronicles the life of a man who, at all points of his life, was a fighter for a better Canada: he fought antisemitism, corporate capital, omnipotent university boards, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and his own judicial colleagues in an effort to modernize institutions and re-shape Canadian law. Girard exploits a wealth of previously untapped archival sources to provide, in vivid detail, a critical assessment of a restless man on an important mission.

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Book category Books in English Law Laws of Specific jurisdictions Legal system: general

• Full title: Bora Laskin
• Author: Philip Girard
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 690
• EAN: 9781442626188
• ISBN: 1442626186
• ID: 02468623
• Publisher: University Of Toronto Press
• Weight: 954 g
• Dimensions: 153 × 228 × 39 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. September 2013

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