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Reasonable Bail or Bail at All Costs? Defence Counsel Perspectives on a Coercive Environment Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Jenaya Nixon, Carolyn Yule, Dennis Baker
Bail decisions are largely shaped by private, out-of-court negotiations between Crown attorneys and defence lawyers. While accused persons rely on the professional expertise of defence lawyers to navigate bail negotiations and secure them the best possible outcome, much remains unknown about how lawyers prepare for and negotiate bail. This study examines the process of bail preparations and negotiations
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Bad Religion and Bad Business: The History of the Canadian Witchcraft Provision Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Riley Klassen-Molyneaux
Witchcraft is a fascinating subject on which many volumes continue to be published. But not in Canada. This article stands in contrast to earlier Canadian pieces on witchcraft whose primary goals were to prove that the witchcraft provision marginalized women and to encourage legislators to repeal it. Parliament finally repealed the Canadian witchcraft prohibition in 2018. The moment is thus ripe to
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Le recours aux modes alternatifs de règlement des conflits : une exploration au prisme d’une analyse des coûts humains et financiers de la justice Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Dalia Gesualdi-Fecteau, Maxine Visotzky-Charlebois, Johanne Clouet, Chloé Leclerc, Arianne Morin-Aubut
Résumé Les modes alternatifs de règlement des conflits s’inscrivent dans une volonté de transformation de l’organisation de la justice en cherchant à régler « autrement » les litiges judiciarisés. L’émergence de ces modes répond également aux impératifs de la nouvelle gouvernance publique, où les questions de l’efficacité et de la célérité de la justice deviennent cardinales. Ces modes alternatifs
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L’éthique et l’éthos de la profession chez les avocats en droit criminel et en droit social Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Évelyne Jean-Bouchard, Pierre Noreau
Résumé Quelle relation les avocats entretiennent-ils avec les exigences éthiques de leur profession? Ce texte pose l’hypothèse qu’il existe un décalage entre la définition déontologique, universelle et abstraite établie par le Code de déontologie des avocats et les prises de décisions éthiques prises au quotidien par les professionnels du droit dans le contexte de leur domaine de pratique et des relations
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Unthinkable, Thinkable, and Back Again: The Use of Incarceration in Ontario during the COVID-19 Pandemic Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Brendyn Johnson, Chloé Leclerc
The arrival of COVID-19 added potentially deadly consequences to incarceration. In response, jurisprudence developed allowing for some to be spared the deprivation of their liberty. However, there is insufficient empirical evidence that this avoidance of incarceration occurred in practice in Ontario. Using fieldwork methods conducted in Ontario criminal courts coupled with data from Statistics Canada
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Vulnerability of Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Migrants in Toronto Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Idil Atak, Sara Asalya, Jona Zyfi
This article examines the underlying structural elements contributing to the vulnerability experienced by asylum seekers and undocumented migrants across two critical domains: refugee eligibility examination and accessibility of essential social services, particularly healthcare. By drawing insights from fieldwork conducted in Toronto between 2020 and 2022, this article investigates how migrants navigate
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Misunderstandings and Intentional Misrepresentations: Challenging the Continued Framing of Consensual and Nonconsensual Intimate Image Distribution as Child Pornography Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alexa Dodge
Many educational presentations continue to straightforwardly frame both consensual and nonconsensual intimate image distribution among youth as child pornography. This continues despite the availability of a purpose-built offence for nonconsensual intimate image distribution (NCIID) that was designed, in part, to avoid the use of child pornography offences in NCIID cases and the existence of a “private
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How enforcement shapes compliance with legal rules: the case of long-term care homes in Ontario Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Poland Lai
This paper contributes to the legal and socio-legal literature on long-term care (LTC) facilities (also known as nursing homes) by drawing from the responsive regulation literature and empirical research conducted in 2021 and 2022. Enforcement is an under-explored aspect in the legal and socio-legal literature on LTC. This research asks how the regulator’s enforcement activities shape compliance of
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Le droit à l’expression sexuelle chez les personnes âgées vivant en milieu d’hébergement : comment concilier le consentement et les troubles neurocognitifs? Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Louise Langevin
Résumé Contrairement aux préjugés, les personnes aînées ne sont pas asexuelles ou post-sexuelles. Elles sont titulaires de droits sexuels, reconnus dans de nombreux textes législatifs. Cependant, la mise en œuvre de ces droits pose des défis, particulièrement pour les personnes aînées vivant en établissement et souffrant de problèmes neurocognitifs. Le Code criminel interdit tout contact sexuel entre
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Gouvernance et démocratie fédérale en temps de crise : quelques leçons tirées de la pandémie de COVID-19 au Canada Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Dave Guénette, Félix Mathieu
RésuméCet article porte sur les effets et les contraintes posés par la pandémie de COVID-19 sur les mécanismes de la gouvernance dans le système fédéral canadien. Pour ce faire, nous empruntons un cadre analytique bien spécifique, que nous faisons découler expressément des réflexions de la Cour suprême du Canada dans son Renvoi relatif à la sécession du Québec. Nous nous intéressons ainsi aux quatre
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Is the COVID-19 Pandemic a Critical Juncture? Insight from the Study of “New” Multilingual Governance Techniques Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Arjun Tremblay
Is the COVID-19 pandemic a critical juncture? An emerging social scientific scholarship on the COVID-19 pandemic has set out to study its effects on a range of social, political, and economic phenomena. Some of this scholarship theorizes that the COVID-19 pandemic is one of those rarest and most impactful moments in time, what historical institutionalists would call a “critical juncture”. This article
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Pandemics and Paradigms of Contestation Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Keith Cherry
Paradigms of governance are defined in part by paradigms of contestation—stockpiles of culturally legible tactics for contesting power. This article analyzes the growing use of hard-block and mutual aid tactics in Metulia (sometimes called Victoria, B.C.) as exemplars that suggest liberal paradigms of contestation may be becoming less rigid. Drawing on Robert Cover and Charles Tilly, I argue that the
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Pandemics and Paradigms of Governance: Futures of the Rule of Law in the 21st Century Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols
Is the COVID-19 pandemic truly a pivotal moment in contemporary governance? This question has sparked multifaceted responses and spurred diverse debates and perspectives. On one side of the spectrum, there are those who ardently argue that this pandemic represents an exceedingly rare and profoundly impactful historical juncture, specifically within the domain of law and governance. In contrast, a counterpoint
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Pandémies et paradigmes de gouvernance : quels futurs pour l’État de droit au XXIe siècle? Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Amy Swiffen, Joshua Nichols
La pandémie de COVID-19 représente-t-elle véritablement un moment charnière pour la gouvernance contemporaine? Cette question suscite de multiples réponses de même qu’une grande variété de débats et de perspectives. D’un côté se trouvent ceux qui soutiennent ardemment que cette pandémie constitue un événement historique des plus rares, aux répercussions profondes, notamment dans le domaine du droit
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Plaguing Segregations: Paradigms of Rule at The Cape of Good Hope Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 George Pavlich
Power, while fundamental to sociality, might be exercised with haphazard ferocity or more judiciously in legally constrained ways. Such constraint requires us first to understand how ruling paradigms work, and the effects of their powers, before entertaining suitable forms of legal limitation. Transposing Kuhn’s famous concept, this paper examines a ruling paradigm of biopolitical sovereignty at the
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Public Health, Internal Borders, and the Ends of Federalism Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michael Da Silva
Questions concerning border closures during pandemics often focus on international borders or rights-based considerations. Closures of internal borders in federal countries, such as Canada, raise independent concerns regarding who can close internal borders when. Those questions are not exhausted by rights-based considerations and cannot be resolved using brute empirical measures. They instead implicate
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To Protest for Black Life during the Pandemic: Resistance and Freedom in a Settler State Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Sarah Riley Case
This article reflects on the global uprisings in support of Black life during the early pandemic. The focus is on what the protests reveal about Black resistance to the nation-building project of Canada. Protests during this period are understood here to have included taking to the streets, practicing care, and calling for abolition. Drawing on critical race theory and Black Studies, especially Black
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The Pandemic’s Golden Touch: (Neo)Extractivism, Coloniality, and Necropolitics on Brazil’s Indigenous Territories Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Rebeca B. Macias Gimenez
Mining has been at the forefront of coloniality for hundreds of years in Brazil, representing one of the main threats to the integrity and health of Indigenous lands. The 1988 Brazilian Constitution recognized Indigenous peoples’ rights to the lands they occupy, and their natural resources, according to their traditions, uses, beliefs, and practices. Constitutional provisions, however, have not impeded
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The Person and the Mirror: On the Colonial Force of Corporate Law Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Bradley Bryan
Buried within the everyday deployment of business vehicles by Indigenous governments as a seemingly neutral way to pursue economic development are also legal notions of corporate personhood and representation. While it is occasionally suggested that corporate law is itself part of the problem of colonialism, the idiomatic notions of “representation,” “legal personhood,” and “business as neutral” form
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Governing Risk Through Forced Confinement: Clawback of Pre-Pandemic Reforms Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Jessica Evans, Linda Mussell
We examine the use of forced confinement and isolation to limit the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario prisons and jails. Drawing on interview data, we illustrate how a reliance on forced confinement and isolation has exacerbated harms experienced by prisoners in relation to physical, mental, and social health. Through discourse analysis of grey literature, we then discuss the politics and governance of
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Accès à la justice et inclusion numérique : au-delà des enjeux technologiques Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Sandrine Prom Tep, Florence Millerand, Alexandra Parada
Cet article s’intéresse aux inégalités numériques qui touchent l’accès aux services publics, et plus précisément à la justice. Au Québec, les plumitifs sont des registres publics qui retracent l’historique judiciaire des justiciables, et ils sont disponibles en ligne. Dans une perspective d’accès à la justice, cet article aborde la tension existante entre les objectifs de la numérisation des services
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A Digital Space of One’s Own: Rethinking Children’s Online Privacy Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Stephanie Belmer
This paper rereads the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, as it was adopted by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Jones v Tsige, to include a fuller account of online privacy. It proposes that the Court’s stress on informational privacy forfeits a more dynamic and “spatialized” conception of privacy harm. This paper develops a relational account of spatial privacy using the work of Iris Marion Young, Virginia
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Smooth Operators, Predictable Glitches: The Interface Governance of Benefits and Borders Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Jennifer Raso
This article examines the phenomenon of interface governance. It uses two interface technologies—Universal Credit’s digital account (United Kingdom) and ArriveCAN (Canada)—to explore how interfaces and their predictable glitches govern relations between state officials and members of the public. Drawing on tools of government literature, it argues that interfaces do not achieve their stated goals evenly
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Constructing Risk through Jurisdictional Talk: The Ontario Review Board Process under Part XX.1 of the Criminal Code Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Joshua D. M. Shaw, Tyler J. King, Liam Kennedy
The Ontario Review Board (ORB) makes and reviews dispositions that limit the freedoms of individuals found not criminally responsible (NCR) due to a “mental disorder.” Their dispositions must be responsive to the risk NCR individuals pose to the public. To assess how risk is measured, the authors studied twenty-six publicly accessible court files pertaining to the appeal of ORB dispositions. The authors
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“Are Canadian Street Cops Outgunned?”: The Debate over Police Handguns in the 1990s Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-08-01 R. Blake Brown, Rudy Bartlett
This article offers the first scholarly analysis of the shift from revolvers to semi-automatic handguns in Canada to contribute to our knowledge of police militarization. In the 1990s, most Canadian police handed in their venerable service revolvers and received modern semi-automatic pistols. Advocates of new weapons pointed to relatively rare but high-profile shootings of police to show the dangers
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Surveiller sans punir : la place du droit dans la prévention des risques professionnels Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Romain Juston Morival, Jérôme Pélisse
This article analyzes the role of law in the surveillance and prevention of occupational risks within a large public bureaucracy in France, based on a comparison of three services: a listening unit, an occupational health service, and an inspection mission. Each of these services offers legal intermediation activities that frame forms of legality, ranging from the most spontaneous to the most formal
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Extracting Profits: State Regulation and the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Kristine Johnston, Steven Bittle
Taking the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) as its focus, this paper critically examines the Canadian government’s efforts to regulate the extractive industry. Using insight from ideology theory and critical discourse analysis, and drawing empirically from Canadian Parliamentary debates, official government and NGO reports, and various news items regarding the development of
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Crisis, Colonialism and Constitutional Habits: Indigenous jurisdiction in times of emergency Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Emma Feltes, Jocelyn Stacey, the Tŝilhqot’in National Government
The Tŝilhqot’in Nation has had ample experience exercising its laws and jurisdiction to manage emergencies during record-breaking wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the Nation’s unique opportunity to formally describe and advance its jurisdiction through its landmark Aboriginal title declaration and beyond, in these crises, Crown actors have defaulted to well-worn patterns of colonialism
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Secular Court-Ordered Divorces: What Modern Fatāwā and Canadian Imams Say Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Yousef Aly Wahb
Many Canadian Muslim couples are hesitant to resort to civil legal processes and attempt to resolve their disputes within the religious community. Islamic law’s exclusion of non-Muslim judges from holding judicial authority in certain family law matters limits the feasibility of aligning religious commands with family court orders. By extrapolating contemporary legal opinions (fatāwā, sing. fatwā)
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Prosecuting and Propagating Emotional Harm: The Criminalisation of HIV Nondisclosure in Canada Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Katarina Bogosavljević, Jennifer M. Kilty
This article explores emotional harm in the context of the criminalization of HIV nondisclosure in Canada. With the exception of Matthew Weait in the United Kingdom, few scholars have examined what harm means in cases of HIV nondisclosure. We conceptualize the harm that follows nondisclosure as an affective response to the “HIV positive Other” and argue that law creates a legal norm about what harm
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La gouvernance plurinormative des manifestants : reconfigurations pénales, exceptionnalité et dégradation des droits pendant le G20 à Toronto Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Joao Velloso
RésuméCet article analyse la création, l’adaptation et l’utilisation des dispositifs juridiques employés dans le contrôle des manifestants pendant le G20 à Toronto (2010), notamment le recours à un régime spécial basé sur la Loi sur la protection des ouvrages publics (LPOP). Le recours à une loi obscure de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et le peu de transparence gouvernementale sur les lois applicables
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Punitive Justice: When Race and Mental Illness Collide in the Early Stages of the Criminal Justice System Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Marsha Rampersaud
Youths in care are among the most vulnerable youths in our society. All youths in care have experienced trauma and sometimes exhibit trauma-induced behaviours which are perceived by others as disruptive or dangerous. The police are frequently called, which begins a cycle of criminalization for many youths, with racialized youths overrepresented in this group. Using an intersectional theoretical framework
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Courting Victims: Exploring the Legal Framing of Exploitation in Human Trafficking Cases Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Marcus A. Sibley, Emily van der Meulen
This article examines how exploitation informs judicial interpretations of human trafficking in Canadian criminal cases. While socio-legal and popular notions of trafficking often suggest that forced movement into a decidedly exploitative labour context is required, our analysis of key appellate cases and constitutional challenges reveals that actual exploitation is not a necessary element of the offence
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Governing through Controversy: The Challenge of New Toxicological Methodologies Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Jaye Ellis
Building institutional and procedural bridges between science and policy is a vital role for law. Fundamental to the success of this work is the development of more sophisticated, nuanced understandings of scientific knowledge production than those which are current in legal and policy spheres. In this paper, I consider scientific controversies that have emerged in the field of human and environmental
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Places of Justice? Representations of Law in Canadian Court Museums Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 William Harrison, Kevin Walby, Justin Piché
There is little scholarship on museums and heritage sites that memorialize courts, judges, and law. Engaging with literatures on penal history and law and culture, we explore representations of law and power in court museums across Canada. Based on observations and interviews, we examine the meanings of the artifacts curated at court museum sites. In a post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission context
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Pouvoir normatif et crise sanitaire à la lumière du droit tunisien Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Maysoun Bouzid
Les crises sanitaires produisent des effets transversaux sur la santé publique et l’ordre socio‑politique. Aux yeux des citoyens, c’est le pouvoir normatif qui s’est trouvé discrédité par la crise sanitaire liée à la Covid-19. Bousculée à plusieurs reprises, la norme juridique a perdu beaucoup de sa normativité et de sa valeur dans la conscience collective. Face aux différentes formes de désarticulation
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Responding to Regulatory Barriers to “Ethical Meat”: Are On-Farm Slaughter Exemptions the Solution? Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Sarah Berger Richardson
Mandatory meat inspection requirements have long been a source of frustration for advocates of ethical meat. Seen as overly restrictive and ill-adapted to the realities on the ground, some argue that farm-to-consumer sales should be subject to less stringent inspection requirements than conventional meat supply chains. Recently, a series of legislative reforms authorizing on-farm slaughter suggests
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Legalizing Illegal Mass Surveillance: A Transnational Perspective on Canada’s Legislative Response to the Expansion of Security Intelligence Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Midori Ogasawara
This article offers a transnational perspective on Canada’s legislative response to globally expanded national security intelligence activities in the War on Terror since 2001. I situate Canada’s new legislation against the backdrop of US and Japanese legislative responses and analyze the transition, including Bill C-13 (2014), Bill C-44 (2015), Bill C-51 (2015), and Bill C-59 (2019). I argue that
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The Elusive Quest for French on the Bench: Bilingualism Scores for Canadian Supreme Court Justices, 1985–2013 Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, Tiago Rubin
This article explores normative arguments for mandatory judicial bilingualism. It disentangles the links between the normative reasons advanced for mandatory bilingualism and the correlative level of French that should be expected of judges. To provide empirical anchoring, we construct a bilingualism score of Canadian Supreme Court justices composed of four indicators. The score shows that non-systematic
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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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Nicolas Desurmont
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Diamond Ashiagbor, ed. Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South. Oxford: Hart/Bloomsbury, 2019. 275 pp. Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Ania Zbyszewska
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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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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 (IF 0.5) 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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Heidi Bohaker Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance through Alliance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. 245 pp. Canadian journal of law and society (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Samantha Stevens