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In approaching the history of the legal professions through the lens of cultural history, Wes Pue locates the legal profession within England and its empire, supplementing and disrupting established narratives of professionalism as proffered by lawyers and their critics

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Events -- Part 1: Canada's APEC Summit, 1997 -- 1 Policing, the Rule of Law, and Accountability in Canada: Lessons from the APEC Summit -- Part 2: Constitutional Fundamentals -- 2 Free Speech, Democracy, and the Question of Political Influence -- 3 "Relax a Bit in the Nation": Constitutional Law 101 and the APEC Affair -- 4 The APEC Protest, the Rule of Law, and Civilian Oversight of Canada's National Police Force -- 5 The Significance of the APEC Affair -- Part 3: Policing and Accountability -- 6 Someone to Watch over Me: Government Supervision of the RCMP -- 7 Hand in Glove? Politicians, Policing, and Canadian Political Culture -- 8 Forcing the Issues: Police Use of Force at the APEC Protest -- Part 4: Public Accountability in a Free and Democratic Society -- 9 Forces of Journalism -- 10 Personal Reflections on the Ill-fated First APEC Inquiry -- 11 Raising the Dough: Funding for Lawyers at Public Inquiries -- Part 5: Globalization and Canadian Rights -- 12 The 1997 APEC Summit and the Security of Internationally Protected Persons: Did Someone Say "Suharto"? -- 13 A Whole Theatre of Others: A Personal Account of APEC 1997 -- 14 Whither APEC? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

This article assesses Canada's principal legal responses to the challenge presented by terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. A review of major federal "anti-terrorism" legislation reveals a legislative response that fundamentally violates core constitutional principles while failing to significantly enhance public safety.

This is the first book that directly addresses the cultural history of the legal profession. An international team of scholars canvasses wide-ranging issues concerning the culture of the legal profession and the wider cultural significance of lawyers,including consideration of the relation to cultural processes of state formation and colonisation. The essays describe and analyse significant aspects of the cultural history of the legal profession in England, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway and Finland. The book seeks to understand the complex ways in wh