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An RCMP sting caught Nicole Doucet (Ryan) trying to hire a hitman
to kill her ex-husband. It was supposed to be an open-and-shut
case. It wasn't. No Legal Way Out details the process, the media
coverage, and the legal implications of R v Ryan, all the way to
the Supreme Court of Canada. The outcome of the case limited the
legal options for women seeking to escape abuse and had a damaging
impact on public perceptions of domestic violence. This unabashedly
feminist analysis explains why the court, the police, and the media
let down all women trapped by intimate partner terrorism.
Understanding Atrocities is a wide-ranging collection of essays
bridging scholarly and community-based efforts to understand and
respond to the global, transhistorical problem of genocide. The
essays in this volume investigate how evolving, contemporary views
on mass atrocity frame and complicate the possibilities for the
understanding and prevention of genocide. The contributors ask,
among other things, what are the limits of the law, of history, of
literature, and of education in understanding and representing
genocidal violence? What are the challenges we face in teaching and
learning about extreme events such as these, and how does the
language we use contribute to or impair what can be taught and
learned about genocide? Who gets to decide if it's genocide and who
its victims are? And how does the demonization of perpetrators of
atrocity prevent us from confronting the complicity of others, or
of ourselves? Through a multi-focused and multidisciplinary
investigation of these questions, Understanding Atrocities
demonstrates the vibrancy and breadth of the contemporary state of
genocide studies. With contributions by: Amarnath Amarasingam,
Andrew R. Basso, Kristin Burnett, Lori Chambers, Laura Beth Cohen,
Travis Hay, Steven Leonard Jacobs, Lorraine Markotic, Sarah
Minslow, Donia Mounsef, Adam Muller, Scott W. Murray, Christopher
Powell, and Raffi Sarkissian
Drawing on engaging case studies, Essays in History of Canadian Law
brings the law to life. The contributors to this collection provide
rich historical and social context for each case, unravelling the
process of legal decision-making and explaining the impact of the
law on the people involved in legal disputes. Examining the law not
simply as legislation and institutions, but as discourse, practice,
symbols, rhetoric, and language, the chapters show the law as both
oppressive and constraining and as a point of contention and means
of resistance. This collection presents new approaches and
concerns, as well as re-examinations of existing themes with new
evidence and modes of storytelling. Contributors cover many
thematic areas, from criminal to labour, civil, administrative, and
human rights law, spanning English and French Canada, and ranging
from the mid-eighteenth century to the late twentieth century. The
legal cases vary from precedent-setting cases to lesser-known ones,
from those driven by one woman’s quest for personal justice to
others in which state actors dominate. Bringing to light how the
people embroiled in these cases interacted with the legal system,
the book reveals the ramifications of a legal system characterized
by multiple layers of inequality.
An RCMP sting caught Nicole Doucet (Ryan) trying to hire a hitman
to kill her ex-husband. It was supposed to be an open-and-shut
case. It wasn't. No Legal Way Out details the process, the media
coverage, and the legal implications of R v Ryan, all the way to
the Supreme Court of Canada. The outcome of the case limited the
legal options for women seeking to escape abuse and had a damaging
impact on public perceptions of domestic violence. This unabashedly
feminist analysis explains why the court, the police, and the media
let down all women trapped by intimate partner terrorism.
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