Technology and Security for Lawyers and Other Professionals: the Basics and Beyond
KL156.H66 2024
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Technology proficiency is now a necessity for most professionals. In this very practical book, W. Kuan Hon presents a comprehensive foundational guide to technology and cybersecurity for lawyers and other non-technologists seeking a solid grounding in key tech topics. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach that elucidates the high-level basics then goes a step beyond, Hon clearly explains core technical computing subjects: hardware/software, computing models/APIs, data storage/databases, programming, networking including Internet/web, email and mobile, and artificial intelligence/machine learning including LLMs, detailing cybersecurity essentials like encryption/hashing, public key infrastructure, digital signatures and PETs and flagging various security/privacy-related aspects throughout. Concrete examples help to consolidate understanding and illustrate the practical issues.
Key Features:
- Direct, engaging writing style
- Concise, accessible explanations of key computing-related concepts
- Highlights fines/legal action regarding specific security/tech-related issues
- Companion PDF contains several ‘try-it-yourself’ illustrations and further information
- Provides an excellent framework for interpreting and applying laws/regulations on technology/communications, privacy/data protection, security and/or AI/ML
This book is an indispensable learning and reference work for professionals practising in technology/communications, privacy/security and/or data laws and compliance, offering an in-depth grounding in technology fundamentals and key practical issues. Analysts/consultants, compliance managers, policymakers/lawmakers and regulators/judges will also benefit from this book.
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Public Inquiries in Canada: Law and Practice, 2nd edition / Ronda Bessner
KM86.3.B47 2024
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Public inquiries have an enormous impact on public policy in Canada, serving as fact-finder, investigator of systemic failures, and proposer of reforms in diverse areas of public concern. To accomplish all these varied and important objectives, the public inquiry has of necessity become a creative and flexible process. Assembling many voices and perspectives, Public Inquiries in Canada: Law and Practice, 2nd Edition provides guidance on how best to conduct the public inquiry process from beginning to end.
Practical in tone and providing a thorough overview of all stages of the inquiry process, Public Inquiries in Canada: Law and Practice, 2nd Edition is essential reading for all those involved in a public inquiry: lawyers, commissioners of inquiries (including judges), members of a commission team, witnesses, government staff, and the media. Even members of the public who have not been directly affected by the events leading to a public inquiry will find this book to contain a compelling discussion of what has become a vital tool in Canadian public policy.
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Diversity and Indigenous Peoples in Canada, 5th Edition / Darion Boyington
KM208.I5B69 2024
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Diversity and Indigenous Peoples in Canada, 5th Edition provides a firm foundation for criminal justice students and law enforcement to understand cultural and identity issues within the Canadian context. Through examining the concepts of diversity, human rights, and Indigenous issues, students will learn to responsibly maneuver through Canada’s evolving social landscape—a necessary skill in law enforcement.
This text consists of two parts: Part I explores diversity, multiculturalism, and human rights within Canada; Part II reviews past and present interactions between Indigenous peoples and Canadian settlers.
This comprehensive resource supports college and university courses that focus on diversity, inclusiveness, and social awareness, and is designed to help students and professionals build greater diversity competency through meaningful examples and exercises.
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Non-Human Rights: Critical Perspectives / Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa
KN185.3.N66 2024
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Non-human rights are a reality today: this book unpacks their paradoxes as well as their significance for our historic crucible. As animals, rivers, mountains, rainforests, ecosystems, and synthetic entities such as machines, AI, and robots gain recognition as subjects of rights in different parts of the world, non-human rights become part of our ordinary legal landscape and vocabulary. This timely book provides a critical outlook on this rising trend at the crossroads of two of the main concerns of the 21st century: climate change and automation.
In seeking to address the foundations, genealogies, philosophies, and impacts of non-human rights, the contributors to this volume examine both their potential and limitations. Are non-human rights just a mere extension of the liberal human rights discourse or, as some suggest, something else and new based on different principles? Are they a ‘revolution’ or just ‘more of the same’? Are they a practical solution that could ‘save us’ from climate disaster and self-destruction through automation or part of the problem and obstacle for social change?
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A Proactive Practitioner's Guide to Section 11(b) of the Charter / Tracy Kozlowski
KM220.K69 2024
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Since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in R v Jordan, a complex new body of jurisprudence has developed respecting how section 11(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is to be interpreted and how the Jordan framework should be applied. A Proactive Practitioner’s Guide to Section 11(b) of the Charter provides a comprehensive and detailed review of the relevant caselaw, addressing issues including when section 11(b) is engaged, to what portion of proceedings the framework applies, how key concepts such as defence-caused delay and discrete exceptional circumstances are defined, how the impact of the pandemic has been accounted for, how section 11(b) is applied on sentencing, and considerations related to interlocutory proceedings and appeals. This guide provides both an examination of the caselaw relevant to these issues as well as analysis and discussion related to outstanding questions yet to be settled by the courts. Accordingly, it will provide practitioners with ready answers, with a foundation to pursue legal argument related to section 11(b) of the Charter, and with a roadmap to areas still open to be litigated.
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