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Maureen A. Maloney
Bio: Maureen A. Maloney is an academic researcher from University of Victoria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Status quo & Empire. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 38 citations.
Topics: Status quo, Empire, Convention, Poison control, Legal education
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TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as mentioned in this paper explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
Abstract: This article in scrapbook form represents the endeavour of the eight authors to document a recent, collective, academic journey. The project was one embarked upon as a means to explore tensions between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention. Using various media, this article strives, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
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TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as discussed by the authors explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
Abstract: This article in scrapbook form represents the endeavour of the eight authors to document a recent, collective, academic journey. The project was one embarked upon as a means to explore tensions between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention. Using various media, this article strives, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the possibilities within Canadian legal education for the development of critical skills, attitudes and practices, and conclude that legal education teaches political values, and rewards personal characteristics that are conducive to the preservation of the status quo and serve to marginalize critical knowledge and practice.
Abstract: This essay explores the possibilities within Canadian legal education for the development of critical skills, attitudes and practices. It examines the structure and organizational culture of law school, and analyses the assumptions underlying the dominant model of legal knowledge. The conclusion drawn is that at every level, legal education teaches political values, and rewards personal characteristics that are conducive to the preservation of the status quo and which serve to marginalize critical knowledge and practice. The final section considers and commends several modest efforts to make some room for the critical analysis which is so lacking in legal education.
6 citations
TL;DR: Sommaire et al. as discussed by the authors explored the reasons used to support the omission of wealth tax from the federal tax base and concluded that taxation on transfers of wealth and annual net worth are warranted, but cautions that considerable care, planning and sensitivity must accompany their proposed structure and implementation.
Abstract: This paper explores the reasons used to support the omission of wealth tax from the federal tax base. The primary reasons for the demise of the former inheritance tax are examined in order to anticipate arguments which may be made against the rein-troduction of wealth taxation.
The author bases her main arguments on the need to enhance vertical equity in the taxation system by distributing tax burdens in a progressive manner in accordance with an individual's ability to pay. Wealth taxation may also play a role in impeding large concentrations of wealth. Moreover, if wealth taxation does in fact contribute to ameliorating income and wealth disparities, then substantive equality of opportunity may become a reality rather than a vision of Canadian society. The main concer's often voiced against the introduction of new wealth taxes are examined and found wanting. In particular the author examines the economic concerns, on both macro and micro levels, which are often raised against the imposition of wealth taxation.
The author concludes that taxation on transfers of wealth and annual net worth are warranted, hit cautions that considerable care, planning and sensitivity must accompany their proposed structure and implementation.
Sommaire: Cette etude explore les raisons invoquees pour recommander I'omission de I'impot sur la fortune de I'assiette d'imposition fedeale. L'auteur examine les principaux motifs de I'abrogation de I'ancien impot sur la succession afin d'anticiper les arguments qui pourraient etre presentes contre la reintroduction de I'impot siir la fortune.
Elk fonde ses principaux arguments sur la necessite d'accroitre I'equite verticale du systeme d'imposition en repartissant progressivement les fardeaux fiscaux selon les capacites financieres de chaque contribuable. L'impot sur la fortune pourrait aussi contribuer a empecher les grandes concentrations de richesse. En outre, s'il est vrai que cet impot permet d'amenuiser les disparites de revenu et de richesse, il se pourrait qu'unk veritable egalite de chances devienne une realite plutot qu'une simple vision dans la societe cana-dienne. 1,'auteur se penche sur les principales preoccupations exprimees a I'encontre de nouveaux impots sur la fortune et constate que les arguments ne tiennent pas. Elk etudie tout particulierement les aspects ekonomiques, aussi bien a une macro-echelle qu'a une micro-echelle, qui sont souvent invoques pour faire opposition a I'impot sur la fortune.
L'auteur conclut clue les impots sur la fortune ou les transferts sur la fortune et I'actif net annuel sont justifies, mais elle signale que la conception et la mise en place des structures proposees devront se faire avec enormement de soin, de planification et d'attention.
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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01 Oct 1999
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TL;DR: In this paper, a discussion of existing work in "geojurisprudence" reveals that geographers bring a considerably more sophisticated conceptualization of "law" and "legality" to bear irl their research than do most legal scholars.
Abstract: This article provides a preliminary reaction to developing work in the field of law and geography from the point of view of a legal academic. Geographical research touching on law is assessed in the context of a discussion of current trends in legal thought and legal scholarship. It is argued that legal scholarship in the 1990s is receptive to interdisciplinary influences in a way which is unprecedented in the past century and that geographers can consequently hope to significantly affect the research agendas of legal academics as well as of other social scientists. A discussion of existing work in "geojurisprudence" reveals that geographers bring a considerably more sophisticated conceptualization of "law" and "legality" to bear irl their research than do most legal scholars. This is seen as having potentially revolutionary effects in legal education and in the world affected by state law. It is argued that the potential of geography as insurgency should be warmly embraced by legal scholars.
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