Law & Crime
Spring| Summer 2019
Crime & Human Rights
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet Jeff Kosseff
April 2019 328pp 9781501714412 £20.99 HB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
What we can and cannot write, say, and do online is based on just one law—a law that protects online services from lawsuits based on user content. Jeff Kosseff exposes the workings of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which has lived mostly in the shadows since its enshrinement in 1996. Because many segments of American society now exist largely online, Kosseff argues that we need to understand and pay attention to what Section 230 really means and how it affects what we like, share, and comment upon every day. Tells the story of the institutions that flourished as a result of this powerful statute. It introduces us to those who created the law, those who advocated for it, and those involved in some of the most prominent cases decided under the law. Kosseff assesses the law that has facilitated freedom of online speech, trolling, and much more. His keen eye for the law, combined with his background as an award-winning journalist, demystifies a statute that affects all our lives –for good and for ill. While Section 230 may be imperfect and in need of refinement, Kosseff maintains that it is necessary to foster free speech and innovation.
High Time
The Legalization and Regulation of Cannabis in Canada Edited by Andrew Potter & Daniel Weinstock
March 2019 280pp 9780773556416 £17.99 PB 9780773556362 £91.00 HB
MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS
While the legalization of marijuana in Canada begins with a straightforward change of the criminal code, its ramifications go far beyond this. Legalization will have a serious impact on the country's international treaty commitments, interprovincial relations, taxation and regulatory regimes, and social and health policies The essays in this book address these outcomes from three main perspectives: the decades-long political path to legalization; the assumptions that underwrite the new policy, in particular the desire to stamp out the black market; and how legalization in Canada looks in an international context. Bringing together analysis by policy makers and scholars, including architects of marijuana legislation in Uruguay and Portugal – two trailblazing jurisdictions – High Time provides an urgent and necessary overview of Canada's Cannabis Act.
Governance Feminism
Notes from the Field Edited by Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché & Hila Shamir March 2019 608pp 9780816698509 £27.99 PB 9780816698493 £116.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
An interdisciplinary, multifaceted look at feminist engagements with governance across the global North and global South, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field brings together nineteen chapters from leading feminist scholars and activists to critically describe and assess contemporary feminist engagements with state and state-like power. Gathering examples from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, it complements and expands on the companion volume Governance Feminism: An Introduction. Its chapters argue that governance feminism (GF) is institutionally diverse and globally distributed—emerging from traditional sites of state power as well as from various forms of governance and operating at the grassroots level, in the private sector, in civil society, and in international relations.Providing a clear, cross-cutting, critical lens through which to map developments in feminist governance around the world, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field makes sense of the costs and benefits of current feminist realities to reimagine feminist futures.
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Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance
Edited by Daniel Drache & Lesley A. Jacobs
Asia Pacific Legal Culture and Globalization April 2019 320pp 10 charts, 14 tables 9780774838542 £31.00 NIP UBC PRESS
Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments. This volume introduces the concept of “grey zones” of global governance, where state policy and market behaviour interact with respect to trade, the environment, food security, and investment. Grey zones allow for the bending of international rules, which both promotes uniformity in many areas of public life and facilitates diverse forms of capitalism in market societies, enabling governments to balance national and global economic benefits. This exploration of local engagement with international economic law offers an innovative way to interpret public concerns about trade, investment, food security, green energy, subsidies, and anti-dumping actions.