{"product_id":"my-life-in-crime-and-other-academic-adventures-9781442629776","title":"My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince his call to the Bar in 1960, Martin L. Friedland has been involved in a number of important public policy issues, including bail, legal aid, gun control, securities regulation, access to the law, judicial independence and accountability, and national security.\u003ci\u003e My Life in Crime and other Academic Adventures\u003c\/i\u003e offers a first-hand account of the development of these areas of law from the perspective of a man who was heavily involved in their formation and implementation. It is also the story of a distinguished academic, author, and former dean of law at the University of Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving beyond the boundaries of conventional memoir, Friedland offers an extended meditation on public policy issues and significant events in the field of law, discussing their historical impact and predicting the course of their future development. Given his personal experience, there is no other person more suited to discuss these hugely important issues. Friedland puts the law and legal instit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Friedland's recent book My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures is both a personal memoir and a lively review of much that has happened in Canadian legal policy during the last forty years. -- Christopher Moore Law Times All in all, My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures by Martin L. Friedland is a wonderful autobiography of an individual who has accomplished much and who has observed, studied and commented upon the critical issues of the last half-century with aplomb, insight and becoming modesty. -- Gilles Renaud Criminal Law Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword Preface  Prologue  1.Legal Education  2. Articling and the Bar Ads  3. Cambridge and Double Jeopardy  4. The Enforcement of Morality  5. More Double Jeopardy  6. Detention before Trial  7. Legal Aid  8. Criminal Courts  9. Securities Regulation  10. Machinery of Law Reform  11. The Law Reform Commission of Canada  12. Access to the Law  13. Deaning and the University  14. Gun Control  15. National Security  16. More National Security - Terrorism  17. Codification of the Criminal Law  18. The Charter  19. The Trials of Israel Lipski  20. The Case of Valentine Shortis  21. The Death of Old Man Rice  22. The Frailty of the Criminal Process - Some Observations  23. Sanctions and Rewards in the Legal System  24. Borderline Justice and Other Studies of Law and Society  25. A Place Apart: Judicial Independence and Accountability  26. Controlling Misconduct in the Military  27. Writing the History of the University of Toronto  28. Epilogue  Notes on Sources Publications and Government Work of Martin L. Friedland Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187498115415,"sku":"9781442629776","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-life-in-crime-and-other-academic-adventures-9781442629776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}