Sonia Lawrence
Biographic Data
| ID | 4990326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Lawrence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawrence |
| SIGNATURE | LAWRENCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Law, York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9828-7932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
R v Kapp
This judgment of the Women's Court of Canada takes issue with the reasons, but not the result, in the Supreme Court of Canada's treatment of R v Kapp. It concludes that the Supreme Court was wrong to accept the argument that there was discrimination on the ground of race. Discrimination under section 15 has three required parts: differentiation on an enumerated or analogous ground that is discrimination. Noting that the meaning of “race” is littl…
Equality and Anti-discrimination
This chapter considers the effect of section 1, the “justification” section of the Canadian Charter, on the doctrinal development of section 15, the equality section. It begins by describing the development of the section 15 substantive equality analysis, including the claim of a conceptually complete separation from the section 1 analysis of state justification. The chapter then identifies some features of section 15 which suggest that this sepa…
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States of Race
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States of Race
R v Kapp
This judgment of the Women's Court of Canada takes issue with the reasons, but not the result, in the Supreme Court of Canada's treatment of R v Kapp. It concludes that the Supreme Court was wrong to accept the argument that there was discrimination on the ground of race. Discrimination under section 15 has three required parts: differentiation on an enumerated or analogous ground that is discrimination. Noting that the meaning of “race” is littl…
States of Race
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Equality and Anti-discrimination
This chapter considers the effect of section 1, the “justification” section of the Canadian Charter, on the doctrinal development of section 15, the equality section. It begins by describing the development of the section 15 substantive equality analysis, including the claim of a conceptually complete separation from the section 1 analysis of state justification. The chapter then identifies some features of section 15 which suggest that this sepa…
R v Kapp
This judgment of the Women's Court of Canada takes issue with the reasons, but not the result, in the Supreme Court of Canada's treatment of R v Kapp. It concludes that the Supreme Court was wrong to accept the argument that there was discrimination on the ground of race. Discrimination under section 15 has three required parts: differentiation on an enumerated or analogous ground that is discrimination. Noting that the meaning of “race” is littl…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Discrimination and Equality Law (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (2 works)