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Arguing that judges sacrifice individual rights by using less than their full powers in order to appear democratically legitimate, Robert Leckey provides a detailed comparative account of how judges apply new bills of rights in Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom, and how their practices deny justice to individuals.

This book argues that judges sacrifice individual rights by using less than their full powers in order to appear democratically legitimate.

In unintended ways, law reforms that pursue equality may in fact harm their intended beneficiaries or worsen the disadvantage of other groups. Tackling these important issues beyond the boundaries that often confine legal scholarship, this book conducts an interdisciplinary consideration of efforts to advance equality. It explores the developments, challenges, and consequences that arise from law reforms aiming to deliver equality in the areas...

Queer Theory: Law, Culture Empire takes up the instability of the label 'queer' in order to consider what queer theory can bring to an exploration of the confines and openings provided by law, culture, and empire.

In Contextual Subjects, Robert Leckey argues that the legal subject, at least in family law and administrative law, is a contextual rather than an atomised or abstracted subject. This is a unique assertion and Leckey is undoubtedly successful in defending it throughout the book. He goes further, though, to interrogate the applicability of relational theory to these areas of law, an important issue when it comes to legal scholarship and practic...

In unintended ways, law reforms that pursue equality may in fact harm their intended beneficiaries or worsen the disadvantage of other groups. Tackling these important issues beyond the boundaries that often confine legal scholarship, this book conducts an interdisciplinary consideration of efforts to advance equality. It explores the developments, challenges, and consequences that arise from law reforms aiming to deliver equality in the areas...

Looks at the instability of the label 'queer' in order to consider what queer theory can bring to an exploration of the confines and openings provided by law, culture, and empire.