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When Prisoners’ “Right to Die” Goes Online: A Case-Study of Legal and Penal Sensibilities Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-06-21 Joshua D. M. Shaw, Daniel Konikoff
Prisoners in Canadian federal penitentiaries can obtain medical assistance in dying (MAiD). This raises questions about the nature and legitimacy of pain and death in incarceration. The authors analyze responses to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation online news article discussing the provision of MAiD to prisoners. The comments exemplify different sensibilities about the state’s lethality with respect
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Unbreaking Bail?: Post-Antic Trends in Bail Outcomes Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Rachel Schumann, Carolyn Yule
Addressing criticism that bail blurs the line between prevention and punishment, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously agreed “it is time to ensure that bail provisions are applied consistently and fairly” (R v Antic 2017 SCC 27, [2017] 1 SCR 509). Rather than reform bail, this decision simply reaffirmed the existing legal mandate: using the ladder principle, accused must be released with the fewest
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Non-Association Conditions among Released Women: Implications for Successful Community Reintegration Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Laura McKendy, Rosemary Ricciardelli
In addition to standard parole conditions, parolees under federal community supervision may be subject to special conditions as determined by the Parole Board of Canada; such conditions are intended to manage factors associated with criminogenic risk and need. One set of special conditions places restrictions on parolees’ social relationships and associations, which can include general restrictions
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Le contrôle excessif dans le contexte des violences basées sur l’honneur au Québec : Analyse juridique et jurisprudentielle d’une violence genrée Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Estibaliz Jimenez
Le contrôle excessif est considéré par différents organismes communautaires et institutions du Québec comme une des représentations des violences basées sur l’honneur (VBH) au même titre que les mariages forcés, les mutilations génitales féminines (MGF) et les violences physiques ou psychologiques. En 2016, pour la première fois, le législateur québécois a ajouté le contrôle excessif à la liste des
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Public Support for Canadian Courts: Understanding the Roles of Institutional Trust and Partisanship Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Erin Crandall, Andrea Lawlor
Public support is a critical component of any court’s institutional legitimacy. Understanding the roots and durability of such support is therefore crucial. This article uses survey data to explore public attitudes towards Canadian courts from 2008 to 2019. This time period is especially relevant given the comparatively tumultuous relationship between the Supreme Court and the Conservative government
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Sara Ahmed Complaint! Durham: Duke University Press, 2021. 376 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Monika Lemke
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Louis Fournier FLQ, Histoire d’un mouvement clandestin. Montréal: VLB éditeur, 2020. 369 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Nicolas Desurmont
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Not Worth the Wait: Why the Long-Awaited Regulations Under the AHRA Don’t Address Egg Donor Concerns Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Kathleen Hammond
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act seeks to protect egg donors’ health and well-being and prevent trade in their reproductive capabilities. In order to fulfill these objectives, the Act prohibits the buying and selling of ova, and only allows for egg donors to be reimbursed for their expenses. However, no regulations setting out what expenses can be reimbursed were promulgated. Sixteen years later
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The Attorney General, Politics, and the Public Interest. Contributions to an Evolving Constitutional Convention Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Michael Murphy
The prosecutorial independence of the Attorney General (AG) is a firmly established constitutional convention in Canada, but it is also an evolving convention, subject to ongoing contestation and debate. This article is a contribution to that debate. It defends a normative constitutional framework wherein the AG’s authority to make final decisions in matters of criminal prosecution is balanced against
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The Conceptual Problems Arising from Legal Pluralism Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora
This paper argues that analytical jurisprudence has been insufficiently attentive to three significant puzzles highlighted by the legal pluralist tradition: the existence of commonalities between different types of law, the possibility of a distinction between law and non-law, and the explanatory centrality of the state. I further argue that the resolution of these questions sets the stage for a renewed
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Coming in from the Cold: Canada’s National Housing Strategy, Homelessness, and the Right to Housing in a Transnational Perspective Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2022-01-12 David DesBaillets, Sarah E. Hamill
Canada’s National Housing Strategy (NHS) commits the government to eliminating chronic homelessness and promises that realizing the right to housing is a key objective. In this article, we explore how the Canadian government could realize the right to housing in the context of eliminating chronic homelessness. We argue that it is helpful to look at how other jurisdictions have successfully reduced
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Ethics and Confidentiality: Reflections and Lessons Learned Post-Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Alexander McClelland, Chris Bruckert
In May 2012, a former research assistant contacted the Montréal police about an interview he had conducted with Luka Magnotta for the SSHRC-funded research project Sex Work and Intimacy: Escorts and their Clients four years previously. That call ultimately resulted in the Parent and Bruckert v R and Magnotta case. Now, a decade later, we are positioned to reflect on the collective lessons learned (and
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Police Violence as Organizational Crime Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Sylvia Rich
This paper argues that patterns of pervasive police violence can and should be treated as organizational crime in Canada. It uses the documented events of police violence in Val d’Or, Quebec, that emerged in 2015 to show how a similar fact pattern might fit all of the elements of organizational crime as defined in the Criminal Code. The article also suggests that this is an example where legal imagination
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«On fait du travail social en fait» : Perceptions de leur rôle par les avocat‑e‑s dans le cadre du processus de détermination du statut de réfugié Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Charlotte Dahin
The collaborative involvement of legal and healthcare professionals is often crucial when managing the consequences of the difficult experiences of those seeking asylum and the impact of these on the construction of the asylum application itself. While such collaboration is not always possible, this article focuses on the experiences of lawyers specialized in immigration law, who are often faced with
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Maneesha Deckha Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. 335 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Amanda Turnbull
How can we transform our settler-colonial, anthropocentric legal system to better account for the systemic violence against animals in Canada? This is the question with which Maneesha Deckha grapples in her book Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders. Her solution is to circumvent law’s “binary outlook,” whereby all entities and beings fall into categories of property or personhood
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Sharon Cowan, Chloë Kennedy, and Vanessa Munro, edsScottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In. Oxford: Bloomsbury, 2019. 440 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Debra M Haak
The Feminist Judgments Project (FJP) was conceived by the Women’s Court of Canada (WCC), formed in 2004 as a shadow court to rewrite Supreme Court of Canada decisions from feminist perspectives. Replicating judicial form and voice, and following applicable rules of evidence and precedent, the WCC aimed to show that Supreme Court decisions could legitimately have been reasoned or decided differently
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Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and R. Blake Brown A History of Law in Canada: Volume One—Beginnings to 1866. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 928 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Jamie Benidickson
This publication makes a significant contribution to a field of inquiry that has been hugely enriched through the encouragement of the Osgoode Society which, in 1981, inaugurated what is now a collection of over one hundred titles. This latest contribution offers stimulus to further research and should be of interest to several constituencies. A History of Law in Canada might arouse interest within
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Virginia Torrie Reinventing Bankruptcy Law: A History of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangements Act. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 300 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Anna J. Lund
In Reinventing Bankruptcy Law,Virginia Torrie challenges the orthodox history of The Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”). The CCAA is used in contemporary insolvency practice to liquidate or restructure large businesses. Since the 1980s, courts have adopted a remarkably flexible approach to interpreting the CCAA, justifying their approach on the grounds that the statute’s underlying policy
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Our Culture, Our Heritage, Our Values: Whose Culture, Whose Heritage, Whose Values? Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Lori G. Beaman
This article reflects on the question of how culture and religion enter legal cases and public debates about the place of majoritarian religious symbols in diverse societies that have some democratic will to inclusion. In the context of the new diversity, the article considers how the articulation of “our culture and heritage” as a strategy for preserving “formerly” religious symbols and practices
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Marge ou crève Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Xavier Delgrange
RésuméSous son aspect positif, la marge d’appréciation que la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme reconnaît aux États permet à ceux-ci d’enrichir le socle des droits fondamentaux établi par la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme. Elle met en avant la responsabilité de chaque État dans la concrétisation de la Convention. Elle contribue alors au développement de la démocratie qui croît avec
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Voting on Belonging Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Dia Dabby
In 2017, a Muslim cemetery project was proposed in the municipality of St-Apollinaire, just outside Quebec City. This proposal required a change in local zoning, which necessitated approval from citizens living around the targeted plot of land, through the use of diverse deliberative tools. Drawing on a small-scale empirical study conducted in 2017–2018 with key informants in the cemetery project,
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Formalizing Secularism as a Regime of Restrictions and Protections: The Case of Quebec (Canada) and Geneva (Switzerland) Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Amélie Barras
In 2019, the province of Quebec and the canton of Geneva passed bills establishing their states as “secular.” While each law is, to a certain extent, context specific, both present noteworthy similarities. First, neutrality (the cornerstone of laïcité) is articulated around two elements: (1) restrictions that affect the religious practices of public servants belonging to minority religions and (2)
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L’effacement de la laïcité libérale en France. De la séparation du politique et du religieux vers la promotion du « vivre‑ensemble » Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Vincent Valentin
RésuméDepuis plusieurs décennies, la laïcité subit en France une transformation profonde qui remet en cause sa dimension libérale. Le principe de séparation du politique et du religieux se dilue au profit de la promotion de la notion récente du « vivre‑ensemble », qui voudrait associer garantie de la liberté religieuse et défense des valeurs républicaines. Ce processus d’érosion s’appuie sur le développement
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La Loi sur la laïcité de l’État et les conditions de la fondation juridique d’un modèle interculturel au Québec Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Louis-Philippe Lampron
RésuméL’interculturalisme québécois est un modèle de gestion de la diversité culturelle et religieuse qui, pour plusieurs, se distinguerait du multiculturalisme à la canadienne et ferait l’objet d’un large consensus au sein de la population québécoise. Résolument pluraliste, ce modèle distinct de gestion de la diversité aurait pu être opérationnalisé juridiquement dans le cadre constitutionnel canadien
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Convergence culturelle et légistique: pour un modèle québécois d’intégration distinct consacré par une loi-cadre Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Guillaume Rousseau
RésuméSuite à la loi 101, la Politique québécoise du développement culturel a visé à faire en sorte que la culture québécoise soit commune à tous et puisse s’enrichir d’apports en provenance des minorités culturelles. Puis, divers écrits ont contribué à faire évoluer le concept de convergence culturelle, à le critiquer ou à répondre à ceux qui le critiquent. À la lumière de cette politique et de ces
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The Shifting Pendulum: Foreign Investors’ Liability Under Canada’s Common Law for Breaches of Customary International Law Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Jason Haynes
In February 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered a decision—Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, 2020 SCC 5—that can properly be described as revolutionary. In Nevsun, the court found that a Canadian corporation operating in a host state, Eretria, could be liable under Canadian domestic law for human rights abuses committed in Eritrea under customary international law, as incorporated into Canadian
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Collective Religious Freedom as Associational Action: How Sociological Concepts Can Help Make Sense of the Jurisprudence Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Amy Swiffen
Religious freedom is protected by section 2(a) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Historically, the right has been understood in individual terms, though the courts have acknowledged a collective dimension to religion as expressed in a community of believers. Yet, the precise meaning of collective religious freedom has not been fully fleshed out. The current case law only encompasses a
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Governing Through Remorse: The Discursive Framing of Dangerous Offenders in Canada Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Linda Mussell, Michael Orsini
This article examines the emotional terrain and discursive frames that govern the constitution of those subject to the “dangerous offender” (DO) designation in Canada. Focusing on the emotion of remorse, we discuss four narratives involving individuals who went through the DO hearing process, gaining significant media attention. Asking what role Indigeneity and other factors play in how the media discuss
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A Governmentality of Online Gambling: Quebec’s Contested Internet Gambling Website Blocking Provisions Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Martin French, Dani Tardif, Sylvia Kairouz, Annie-Claude Savard
This article examines Canada’s first internet gambling website blocking scheme, which was enacted in Quebec as part of the implementation of the province’s 2015 budget. Using qualitative research methods, the article illustrates the complexities of regulating online gambling. Influenced by critical sociological and anthropological studies of gambling, and taking a socio-legal, governmentality perspective
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L’État canadien et la reconnaissance des droits religieux autochtones Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-05-24 Claude Gélinas
RésuméLa politique actuelle de réconciliation qui guide les rapports que l’État canadien entretient avec les peuples autochtones affiche une certaine discontinuité en matière de reconnaissance de leurs droits religieux. D’une part, les gouvernements accordent aux Autochtones certains privilèges à des fins de valorisation de leurs particularismes religieux dans l’espace public, d’une manière qui ne
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La justice et la non-représentation au carrefour de la localisation sociale Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Emmanuelle Bernheim, Pierre Noreau, Alexandra Bahary-Dionne
RésuméLa présence accrue de justiciables non représenté·e·s devant les tribunaux est régulièrement attribuée à un manque de confiance envers le système judiciaire, notamment à l’égard des avocat·e·s. Agir seul·e devant les tribunaux serait donc un choix délibéré. Un sondage réalisé dans la population générale au Québec permet de démontrer au contraire que la grande majorité des citoyen·ne·s redoutent
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Ignoring Implementation: Defects in Canada’s “Rape Shield” Policy Cycle Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Danielle McNabb, Dennis Baker
This article employs a “policy cycle” framework to explore Bill C-51, legislation which contains Canada’s latest amendments to the “rape shield.” Through an in-depth evaluation of earlier rape shield reforms, as well as a content analysis of the legislative proceedings of Bill C-51, this paper reveals that, while the impetus for introducing rape shield legislation is to protect the equality and privacy
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Pesky Polygamist Women: The Marginalization of Qualitative Data in British Columbia’s Charter Reference on Polygamy Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Nerida Bullock
This paper explores the thorny mingling of law with qualitative social science methodologies through the lens of the 2010–11 Supreme Court of British Columbia Charter Reference on polygamy, which was conducted to determine whether the criminalization of polygamy was consistent with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Reference reveals how the marginalization of qualitative research(ers)
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Drawing Contract and Polyamory Together Or: How I Found the Limits of Liberal Legality in Kimchi Cuddles Comics Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-04-30 John Enman-Beech
Polyamory means consensual, aspirationally gender-egalitarian, non-monogamous relationships. People who engage in such relationships often seek relationship advice. This article is a critical review of a self-help webcomic and other texts in the light of contract theory. Polyamorous people often use contractual concepts to understand their relationships and how to carry them out. Applying critical
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Bearing Witness: Creating the Conditions of Justice for First Nations Children Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-04-30 Rachel Ariss
In 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that Canada’s management of child welfare discriminates against First Nations children. The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, one of the complainants, maintains a web-based campaign called “I Am A Witness,” providing details on the hearings and legal materials and asking visitors to act towards ending discrimination against First Nations
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Une profession en crise ou en transition? Enquête auprès des notaires de l’Outaouais Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-04-20 Julie Paquin, Manon Ferrand
The notarial profession in Québec is currently facing several challenges, including that of the financial situation of many of its members. A study conducted among notaries in the Outaouais region reveals that although, in general, notaries recognize that there is a price war happening, they do not necessarily agree on its causes, their capacity to address it, or the most effective ways to do so. While
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Colleen M. Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Thériault, and Sridhar Venkatapuram, eds.Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19. Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press, 2020. 630 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Ian Stedman
Author Amir Attaran argues that the federal government is dropping the ball by not fully leveraging the public health tools that could make national data sharing mandatory Despite taking a significant hit in ad revenues as a result of the downturn experienced by many businesses, the media has stepped in to play an important role by holding public officials to account for their decisions and ensuring
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La Charte québécoise des droits et libertés permet-elle de mobiliser l’intersectionnalité comme cadre d’analyse de la discrimination? Quelques pistes de réflexion Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-03-30 Vanessa Tanguay
RésuméCet article s’interroge sur les différentes possibilités susceptibles d’éclairer la norme juridique antidiscriminatoire québécoise, soit l’interdiction de discrimination prévue à l’article 10 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne du Québec, par le cadre théorique de l’intersectionnalité. On procédera à un bref survol de la pensée intersectionnelle telle que développée dans les disciplines
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“The Mother of Combines”: Representations of the United States in Early Canadian Discourse on the Combines Problem and the Formation of Canadian National Identity Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-03-22 C. P. Hoffman
In 1887, Canada was in a fervour over so-called “combines,” a term used to cover price-fixing schemes, pool agreements, trusts, and other cartel arrangements. The public debate led to the passage in 1889 of the Anti-Combines Act, the world’s first modern competition statute, enacted a year prior to the United States’ Sherman Antitrust Act. But while Canada acted before its neighbour to the south, the
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When the Police Break the Law: The Investigation, Prosecution and Sentencing of Ontario Police Officers Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-03-16 Kate Puddister, Danielle McNabb
Community trust in law enforcement and confidence in the administration of justice is put to the ultimate test when police officers act outside the limits prescribed by the criminal law. External and civilian oversight of the police can be essential to investigate and respond to allegations of police criminality and impropriety. However, little is known about the investigations completed by civilian
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Documenting Contact and Thinking with Skin: A Dermatological Approach to the Study of Police Street Checks Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Anita Lam, Timothy Bryan
In contrast to quantitative studies that rely on numerical data to highlight racial disparities in police street checks, this article offers a qualitative methodology for examining how histories of anti-Blackness configure civilians’ experiences of present-day policing. Taking the Halifax Street Checks Report as our primary object of analysis, we apply an innovative dermatological approach, demonstrating
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The Judicial Construction of Older Consumers’ Rights: A Qualitative Case-Law Analysis Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2021-02-22 Michal Segal, Sagit Mor, Israel (Issi) Doron
Courts conceptualize and construct the phenomenon of consumer rights violations against older people in different ways. This qualitative analysis of court decisions explores the meanings that Israeli courts have attributed to the fact that the victim was an older consumer. Specific objectives include determining whether existing consumer protections for older consumers are effective, how the relevant
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Gouvernementalité extractive et autodétermination au Canada. Écosystèmes normatifs et charge critique de l’inter-normativité Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Étienne Roy Grégoire
RésuméLa relativisation de la souveraineté est à la fois au cœur de la critique du pluralisme juridique et le résultat concret de la globalisation néolibérale. Cet article propose ainsi la notion d’écosystème normatif comme milieu pour la structuration des communautés politiques. Il énonce trois hypothèses concernant la configuration de l’écosystème normatif extractif canadien : 1) des enjeux constitutionnels
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Life as an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Male Prisoner: Poems of Grief, Trauma, Hope, and Resistance Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Elena Marchetti, Debbie Bargallie
For Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, writing is predominantly about articulating their cultural belonging and identity. Published creative writing, which is a relatively new art form among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners, has not been used as an outlet to the same extent as other forms of art. This is, however, changing as more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
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L’ambivalence de la solidarité des artistes interprètes face à l’Union des artistes Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Maude Choko
RésuméL’Union des artistes a conclu des dizaines d’ententes collectives avec des producteurs dans le cadre de la Loi S-32.1. En vertu des Règlements généraux de l’Union, il est interdit aux membres d’accepter un contrat de travail en marge de ces ententes sous peine de sanction disciplinaire. Pour l’artiste rarement sollicité, soit la grande majorité des membres, ces offres de travail posent un dilemme
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Access to Justice and the Limits of Environmental Class Actions in Ontario Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Michael Molavi
For over half a century, it has been axiomatic that environmental claims are particularly well suited for class actions. This paper examines this notion in the context of Ontario’s regime and finds that environmental class actions have been limited in the extent to which they have promoted access to justice. Starting with a brief overview of class action history in Canada and the economics of mass
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Parliamentary Debate as a Driver of Military Justice Reform in Canada Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Preston Jordan Lim
In June 2019, the Supreme Court of Canada pronounced judgment in the case of R v Stillman, upholding the military justice system’s ability to try serious civil offences. The Stillman decision highlighted one key mechanism of military justice reform: court judgments. This article argues, however, that military legal experts have overlooked Parliamentary debate as a key driver of military reform. By
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Finding Direction at the Edge of Law and Life: Islamic Fiqh, Correspondence, and UAE Takāful Insurance Regulation Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq, Luigi Russi
The Islamic legal enterprise forms an inherently plural system that can appear puzzling to commentators looking for faithfulness to principle or precedent. When one looks at it, instead, as an ongoing search for correspondence between divine guidance, rooted in the foundational sources of Islam, and the singularity of concrete circumstances, Islamic law is revealed as a practice of discernment against
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Trans Justice and the Law: From Then to Now, From There to Here: A Conversation between Dr. Viviane Namaste and Dalia Tourki Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Viviane Namaste, Dalia Tourki
The following is an edited transcription of the keynote presentation at the SSHRC-funded conference On the Margins of Trans Legal Change. This public conference was hosted by McGill University’s Faculty of Law and Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, in partnership with Thompson Rivers University’s Faculty of Law. The keynote presentation was a conversation between Dr. Viviane Namaste
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Trans Justice and the Law : From Then to Now, From There to Here, Une conversation entre Viviane Namaste, Ph. D., et Dalia Tourki Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Viviane Namaste, Dalia Tourki
Le texte qui suit est une transcription révisée du discours principal présenté au colloque On the Margins of Trans Legal Change (En marge des changements juridiques à l’égard des droits des personnes trans) financé par le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH). Cette conférence publique a été organisée par la faculté de droit et l’Institut Genre, sexualité et féminisme de l’Université
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Trans Rights as Risks: On the Ambivalent Implementation of Canada’s Groundbreaking Trans Prison Reform Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-04 William Hébert
This paper analyses policy documents and interviews conducted in federal prisons to trace the emergence and early effects of Canada’s recent wave of groundbreaking trans correctional reforms. I show that prison authorities were forced to adopt more inclusive policies due to the legal, financial, and reputational risks generated by new trans rights protections. Yet, by examining what rights both enabled
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Dimitry Kochenov Citizenship. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2019, 337 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Amyn B. Sajoo
Behold the invocation of the nation’s founding narrative, its pledge of equality and the rule of law, and the keen partaking by a diverse slice of the population… that is, subject to the odd attempt to exclude women with religious face-coverings (secular masks being kosher, if not de rigueur) 1 That citizenship is so valued by newcomers who actually consent to the proffered social contract—as opposed
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Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley, and Céline Bellot Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 257 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Adelina Iftene
Red Zones is an original investigation, through quantitative and qualitative data, into the frequency, causes, and consequences of spatiotemporal conditions of release at bail, probation, and conditional sentences.Using an interdisciplinary lens,Marie-Eve Sylvestre (a legal scholar), Nicholas Blomley (a geography scholar), and Céline Bellot (a social work scholar) tell the story of a criminal justice
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Achille Mbembe Necropolitics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019 (trans. Steve Corcoran), 224 pp. Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Patrick Dwyer
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“Building a Person”: Legal and Clinical Personhood for Autistic and Trans Children in Ontario Canadian journal of law and society Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Jake Pyne
In the 1960s and 1970s, psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, operated two behaviour modification programs: one aiming to eliminate “feminine” behaviours in male-bodied children (“conversion therapy”), and one targeting autistic children’s so-called problem behaviours (applied behavioural analysis or ABA). The head of the autism program referred to his work as “building a person