Lesley A Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley A Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Indigenous Consumer Racial Profiling in Canada: A Neglected Human Rights Issue
This paper examines the pervasive yet underrecognized phenomenon of consumer racial profiling (CRP) against Indigenous peoples in Canada. Drawing on sociolegal analysis, public health research, and empirical data, the authors demonstrate how CRP—manifested in routine acts of surveillance, exclusion, and humiliation in retail and service spaces—functions as a contemporary expression of colonialism and systemic racism. The work identifies both indi…
Linking Global Trade and Human Rights
During the global economic crisis of 2008, countries around the world used national policy spaces to respond to the crisis in ways that shed new light on the possibilities for linkages between international trade and human rights. This book introduces the idea of policy space as an innovative way to reframe recent developments in global governance. It brings together a wide-ranging group of leading experts in international law, trade, human right…
Equality, adequacy, and stakes fairness: Retrieving the equal opportunities in education approach
Two approaches to making judgments about moral urgency in educational policy have prevailed in American law and public policy. One approach holds that educational policy should aspire to realizing equal opportunities in education for all. The other approach holds that educational policy should aspire to realizing adequate opportunities in education for all. Although the former has deep roots in American culture and its jurisprudence, a common nar…
Rights and Quarantine During the Sars Global Health Crisis: Differentiated Legal Consciousness in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Toronto
Interventions in public health crises inevitably give rise to concerns about how the balance between rights concerns and community health security might be handled. During the SARS global health crisis, different jurisdictions struggled simultaneously with similar public health challenges posed by the previously unknown and deadly disease. Yet instead of a convergence of strategies, different jurisdictions responded with measures, especially with…
Selective Adaptation and Human Rights to Health in China
This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "selective adaptation", allows us to determine that China co…
Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
1. Introduction 2. Equal opportunities as a regulative ideal 3. Equal opportunity without natural inequalities Part I. Race: 4. Equal opportunities and civil rights: merit, standardized tests, and higher education 5. Integration, diversity, and affirmative action Part II. Class: 6. Justifying workfare 7. Universal access to health care Part III. Gender: 8. Gender inequalities in the workplace 9. Equal opportunities after divorce
Pursuing equal opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
Pursuing equality is an important challenge for any modern democratic society but this challenge faces two sets of difficulties: the theoretical question of what sort of equality to pursue and for whom; and the practical question concerning which legal and political institutions are the most appropriate vehicles for implementing egalitarian social policy and thus realizing egalitarian justice. This book offers original and innovative contribution…
Legal Consciousness and Its Significance for Law and Society Teaching Outside Canadian Law Schools
One of the recommendations made in Law and Learning is that “[t]he teaching of law in the liberal arts and other faculties should be encouraged.” Earlier in its report, the authors acknowledged the existence of legal studies programs outside law faculties in Canada and emphasized that in these programs legal doctrine exerts much less influence on the direction of study than in law schools. Law teaching in these programs, the Consultative Group ex…
Market Socialism and Non-Utopian Marxist Theory
Presentation des ouvrages respectifs de M. Roberts, intitule «Critique du marxisme analytique» (1996), et de E. O. Wright, intitule «Le partage egal: comment faire fonctionner le socialisme de marche?» (1996) qui s'inscrivent dans le contexte d'une theorie politique non-utopique prenant au serieux l'injonction le devoir implique la possibilite. Mesurant la faisabilite de la theorie marxiste, l'A. examine les conditions institutionnelles pour une …
The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and Tragedies of Nationhood
Integration, Diversity, and Affirmative Action
Can An Egalitarian Justify Universal Access to Health Care
Etude des differentes strategies egalitaires developpees par R. Dworkin, N. Daniels et T. Pogge en faveur d'une justification d'un acces universel aux soins medicaux. Distinguant les strategies comprehensives fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des ressources, des strategies minimalistes fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des chances, l'A. montre qu'aucune d'elles ne justifie l'utilisation des virements en especes qui concretisent le principe d'une ju…
The Second Wave of Analytical Marxism
The Concept and Theories of Modern DemocracyAnthony H. Birch London: Routledge, 1993. vii+260pp
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Rights And Deprivation
In this book Lesley Jacobs challenges the view, now prevalent in North America and Western Europe, that the primary function of a nation's social policy should be to provide support only for the poorest people instead of social services accessible to all its citizens. In an interesting and distinctive argument he develops and defends the idea that access to basic rights such as education, health care, adequate housing, and income support can prov…
The Enabling Model of Rights
The belief that state welfare programmes are justified because they enable many people to do what they could not otherwise have done is attractive. This article examines the claim that this belief flows logically from a particular account of what it means to have a right to do something. This enabling model of rights holds that rights can be violated in two ways: by interfering with people doing something they have a right to do and depriving the…
Rights and Quarantine During the Sars Global Health Crisis: Differentiated Legal Consciousness in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Toronto
Interventions in public health crises inevitably give rise to concerns about how the balance between rights concerns and community health security might be handled. During the SARS global health crisis, different jurisdictions struggled simultaneously with similar public health challenges posed by the previously unknown and deadly disease. Yet instead of a convergence of strategies, different jurisdictions responded with measures, especially with…
Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
1. Introduction 2. Equal opportunities as a regulative ideal 3. Equal opportunity without natural inequalities Part I. Race: 4. Equal opportunities and civil rights: merit, standardized tests, and higher education 5. Integration, diversity, and affirmative action Part II. Class: 6. Justifying workfare 7. Universal access to health care Part III. Gender: 8. Gender inequalities in the workplace 9. Equal opportunities after divorce
Integration, Diversity, and Affirmative Action
Selective Adaptation and Human Rights to Health in China
This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "selective adaptation", allows us to determine that China co…
Legal Consciousness and Its Significance for Law and Society Teaching Outside Canadian Law Schools
One of the recommendations made in Law and Learning is that “[t]he teaching of law in the liberal arts and other faculties should be encouraged.” Earlier in its report, the authors acknowledged the existence of legal studies programs outside law faculties in Canada and emphasized that in these programs legal doctrine exerts much less influence on the direction of study than in law schools. Law teaching in these programs, the Consultative Group ex…
The Second Wave of Analytical Marxism
The Enabling Model of Rights
The belief that state welfare programmes are justified because they enable many people to do what they could not otherwise have done is attractive. This article examines the claim that this belief flows logically from a particular account of what it means to have a right to do something. This enabling model of rights holds that rights can be violated in two ways: by interfering with people doing something they have a right to do and depriving the…
Rights And Deprivation
In this book Lesley Jacobs challenges the view, now prevalent in North America and Western Europe, that the primary function of a nation's social policy should be to provide support only for the poorest people instead of social services accessible to all its citizens. In an interesting and distinctive argument he develops and defends the idea that access to basic rights such as education, health care, adequate housing, and income support can prov…
The Enabling Model of Rights
The belief that state welfare programmes are justified because they enable many people to do what they could not otherwise have done is attractive. This article examines the claim that this belief flows logically from a particular account of what it means to have a right to do something. This enabling model of rights holds that rights can be violated in two ways: by interfering with people doing something they have a right to do and depriving the…
The Concept and Theories of Modern DemocracyAnthony H. Birch London: Routledge, 1993. vii+260pp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Can An Egalitarian Justify Universal Access to Health Care
Etude des differentes strategies egalitaires developpees par R. Dworkin, N. Daniels et T. Pogge en faveur d'une justification d'un acces universel aux soins medicaux. Distinguant les strategies comprehensives fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des ressources, des strategies minimalistes fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des chances, l'A. montre qu'aucune d'elles ne justifie l'utilisation des virements en especes qui concretisent le principe d'une ju…
The Second Wave of Analytical Marxism
Integration, Diversity, and Affirmative Action
Market Socialism and Non-Utopian Marxist Theory
Presentation des ouvrages respectifs de M. Roberts, intitule «Critique du marxisme analytique» (1996), et de E. O. Wright, intitule «Le partage egal: comment faire fonctionner le socialisme de marche?» (1996) qui s'inscrivent dans le contexte d'une theorie politique non-utopique prenant au serieux l'injonction le devoir implique la possibilite. Mesurant la faisabilite de la theorie marxiste, l'A. examine les conditions institutionnelles pour une …
The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and Tragedies of Nationhood
Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
Pursuing equality is an important challenge for any modern democratic society but this challenge faces two sets of difficulties: the theoretical question of what sort of equality to pursue and for whom; and the practical question concerning which legal and political institutions are the most appropriate vehicles for implementing egalitarian social policy and thus realizing egalitarian justice. This book offers original and innovative contribution…
Legal Consciousness and Its Significance for Law and Society Teaching Outside Canadian Law Schools
One of the recommendations made in Law and Learning is that “[t]he teaching of law in the liberal arts and other faculties should be encouraged.” Earlier in its report, the authors acknowledged the existence of legal studies programs outside law faculties in Canada and emphasized that in these programs legal doctrine exerts much less influence on the direction of study than in law schools. Law teaching in these programs, the Consultative Group ex…
Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
1. Introduction 2. Equal opportunities as a regulative ideal 3. Equal opportunity without natural inequalities Part I. Race: 4. Equal opportunities and civil rights: merit, standardized tests, and higher education 5. Integration, diversity, and affirmative action Part II. Class: 6. Justifying workfare 7. Universal access to health care Part III. Gender: 8. Gender inequalities in the workplace 9. Equal opportunities after divorce
Pursuing equal opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice
Selective Adaptation and Human Rights to Health in China
This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "selective adaptation", allows us to determine that China co…
Rights and Quarantine During the Sars Global Health Crisis: Differentiated Legal Consciousness in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Toronto
Interventions in public health crises inevitably give rise to concerns about how the balance between rights concerns and community health security might be handled. During the SARS global health crisis, different jurisdictions struggled simultaneously with similar public health challenges posed by the previously unknown and deadly disease. Yet instead of a convergence of strategies, different jurisdictions responded with measures, especially with…
Equality, adequacy, and stakes fairness: Retrieving the equal opportunities in education approach
Two approaches to making judgments about moral urgency in educational policy have prevailed in American law and public policy. One approach holds that educational policy should aspire to realizing equal opportunities in education for all. The other approach holds that educational policy should aspire to realizing adequate opportunities in education for all. Although the former has deep roots in American culture and its jurisprudence, a common nar…
Linking Global Trade and Human Rights
During the global economic crisis of 2008, countries around the world used national policy spaces to respond to the crisis in ways that shed new light on the possibilities for linkages between international trade and human rights. This book introduces the idea of policy space as an innovative way to reframe recent developments in global governance. It brings together a wide-ranging group of leading experts in international law, trade, human right…
Indigenous Consumer Racial Profiling in Canada: A Neglected Human Rights Issue
This paper examines the pervasive yet underrecognized phenomenon of consumer racial profiling (CRP) against Indigenous peoples in Canada. Drawing on sociolegal analysis, public health research, and empirical data, the authors demonstrate how CRP—manifested in routine acts of surveillance, exclusion, and humiliation in retail and service spaces—functions as a contemporary expression of colonialism and systemic racism. The work identifies both indi…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Law and economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Human rights (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works)