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Combining autobiography and scholarship, this volume asks how lawyers and legal theorists' experiences affect their legal practice and research.
List of contents
1. Taking a stand: politics, prisons and football; 2. Doing the business: judges, academics, and intellectuals; 3. If Derrida played football; 4. Hurly-Berle: corporate governance and democracy; 5. Fashion police v. Supreme Court: a dressing down?; 6. The politics of The Charter: a critical approach; 7. Judicial indiscretions: asking about law in all the wrongs ways; 8. Why I don't teach administrative law (and perhaps why I should); 9. Into the black hole: toward a fresh approach to Tort causation; 10. Some 'what if?' thoughts: notes on Donoghue; 11. Les Miserables Redux: law and the poor; 12. Too late to stop now: law, life and lore.
About the author
Allan C. Hutchinson is a Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. He was awarded the University-wide Teaching Award, and has held a variety of visiting appointments around the world, including Cardiff, London, Sydney, Monash, Toronto, and Harvard. He has also been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. As well as publishing over twenty-five books, he is the author of many essays, notes, and comments in a range of popular newspaper outlets and is a regular contributor to the media.
Summary
Like law itself, thinking about law is a contextual and engaged practice. Reflecting his own experience, Allan C. Hutchinson considers where lawyers and legal theorists stand when they practice and study law. He asks challenging questions of himself to establish how the law is always affected by lawyers' individual contexts.
