{"product_id":"bora-laskin-3","title":"Bora Laskin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn any account of twentieth-century Canadian law, Bora Laskin (1912-1984) looms large. Born in northern Ontario to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Laskin became a prominent human rights activist, university professor, and labour arbitrator before embarking on his 'accidental career' as a judge on the Ontario Court of Appeal (1965) and later Chief Justice of Canada (1973-1984). Throughout his professional career, he used the law to make Canada a better place for workers, racial and ethnic minorities, and the disadvantaged. As a judge, he sought to make the judiciary more responsive to modern Canadian expectations of justice and fundamental rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Philip Girard chronicles the life of a man who, at all points of his life, was a fighter for a better Canada: he fought antisemitism, corporate capital, omnipotent university boards, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and his own judicial colleagues in an effort to modernize institutions and re-shape Canadian law. Girard exploits a wealth of previously untapped archival sources to provide, in vivid detail, a critical assessment of a restless man on an important mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Philip Girard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075356606844,"sku":"9781442616882","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442616882.jpg?v=1743626459","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/bora-laskin-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}