SOSC 1350- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 92 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Thinking about gender and race in socio-legal studies. The law in all its majestic impartiality forbids both rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. When an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it and adjudge such act to be void. Rights work where people are in a position to press for them; for others they give only the caricature of justice. Substantive equality: competing conceptions of equality, formal equality, what equality means, sameness, focus on procedures, substantive equality, what equality means, effects of a practice or policy, difference. B: judicial review and equality in canadian law: brief history of judicial review, dr. bo(cid:374)ha(cid:373)"s case (britain, 1690, dred scott v. sandford (u. s. , 1857); arose in response to the.
