• To consume or be consumed? Sexist beer advertising in Brazil: Gender and power struggles for fair representation within consumer law 

  Amoroso Gonsalves, Tamara (2023-02-03)

  In this dissertation I use a consumer law case related to a sexist advertisement (Skol Summer Muse campaign) to examine the effectiveness of feminist engagement with the Brazilian State and the market. Brazilian consumer ...
• Sino-Nigeria Oil-for-Infrastructure Investment Deals: A Proposal for a New Form of Regulation 

  Nwoko, Ngozi S. (2022-12-16)

  This dissertation focuses on the regulation of the Sino-Nigeria oil-for-infrastructure (OFI) arrangements. The OFI investment pacts are quid-pro-quo arrangements between China and Nigeria where the Nigerian government ...
• The Potential Implications of United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP): A Case Study of the Tsilhqot'in Nation and the Indigenous People of Biafra 

  Okibe, Summer Somtochukwu (2022-08-05)

  This thesis explores the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and its implications for resolving Indigenous issues. This thesis focuses on Aboriginal title issues in British Columbia and ...
• ‘Adequate protection’: an analysis of Nigeria’s data protection laws within an emerging global data protection framework 

  Adewumi, Adekunle (2022-04-27)

  The implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation in 2018 appeared to be the catalyst for several countries to take data protection seriously, owing to concerns about transborder data flow ...
• Legal pluralism and hybridity in Mi’kma’ki and Wulstukwik, 1604-1779: a case study in legal histories, legal geographies, and common law Aboriginal rights 

  Hamilton, Robert (2022-01-10)

  This dissertation is shaped by a concern with how the doctrine of Aboriginal and treaty rights in Canada can develop to meaningfully recognize Indigenous self-determination. A number of inherited concepts (e.g. law, ...
• Clinical legal education and access to justice in Ghana and Canada 

  Frimpong, Antwi (2021-11-19)

  Law clinics have had a late start in Ghana, compared with similar initiatives in Canada. Although there have been consistent calls for the establishment of law clinics at various faculties of law across the country, ...
• Positivist and pluralist trends in Canadian Aboriginal Law: the judicial imagination and performance of sovereignty in Indigenous-state relations 

  Beaton, Ryan (2021-09-14)

  This dissertation identifies institutional positivism and historically grounded pluralism as interpretive trends in the Canadian case law on Indigenous-state relations, and explores tensions between these trends. These are ...
• Reimagining sexual assault law in Canada: a feminist, trauma-informed approach to restorative justice 

  Marinho Ribeiro, Maria Carolina (2021-09-13)

  Every person should have the right to live their life free of violence. However, women and girls in Canada experience sexual assault at disproportionate rates. Systemic violence against them remains commonplace. The crime ...
• The responsibility to rebuild in international law: a panacea for responsibility to protect? 

  Babajide, Love Stephen (2021-08-20)

  This thesis considers the issue of the Responsibility to Rebuild in International Law. It posits that the R2R must be re-elevated to significance as a conceptual, normative, and functional element of Responsibility to ...
• The role of non-state actors in the enforcement of environmental laws 

  Nwanisobi, Chinwendu Chikaodinaka (2021-04-29)

  Weak enforcement of environmental laws is a global trend that worsens environmental threats, notwithstanding the prolific growth of environmental laws and organizations worldwide. A significant challenge to the enforcement ...
• Hydro dams and environmental justice for Indigenous people. a comparison of environmental decision-making in Canada and Brazil 

  Macias Gimenez, Rebeca (2021-04-27)

  This research project focuses on decision-making about large hydropower dams, particularly the process and outcomes of impact assessment, involving state, corporations, and local Indigenous communities. The objective of ...
• Rethinking the right to belong in a neoliberal world: privatization of security in refugee camps and detention centres 

  Abrar, Zehra (2021-04-27)

  The thesis revolves around the question of whether state and non-state actors’ responses to the refugee crises are restricting the rights of refugees by introducing privatization of security. The thesis studies the experiences ...
• Adat Iban: a living traditional wisdom? 

  Edward, Ronnie (2020-12-22)

  Adat Iban are Indigenous law of the Iban people of Sarawak, Malaysia. This dissertation explores the wisdom of Adat Iban and examines whether the Adat and the underlying wisdom are living Adat. Currently, the interpretation, ...
• Reincarnating law in the cosmos 

  Wilson, Vernon Kyle (2020-08-28)

  What does it mean to be lawful in a secular age? Reincarnating Law in the Cosmos orbits around such a humanistic inquiry, offering a local contribution to a global jurisprudence by theorizing contemporary Indigenous and ...
• The regulation of physical appearance in the Canadian workplace as a human rights issue 

  Delagrave, Anne-Marie (2020-08-28)

  This dissertation takes an employee-centred approach to explore the power that employers have to regulate the physical appearance of their employees in the Canadian workplace. Specifically, it analyzes the limitations and ...
• Nêhiyaw Âskiy Wiyasiwêwina: Plains Cree Earth Law and constitutional/ecological reconciliation 

  Lindberg, Darcy (2020-08-10)

  I set out on this research concerned with human relations to the ecological world, and the role of law in these relationships. As one theory of nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) law and constitutionalism enables strong kinship relations ...
• Leftover women's choices in marriage and childbearing: navigating through the complexities of state law, social attitudes, and parental expectations 

  Liu, Qian (2020-07-22)

  In recent years, unmarried women in China face great pressure to marry when they reach their late 20s and beyond. These women are referred to as leftover women, a terminology that plays into the notion that they fail to ...
• Dechen ts'edilhtan: implementing Tsilhqot’in law for watershed governance 

  Hanna, Alan (2020-07-15)

  The people of the Tsilhqot’in Nation have, and continue to, govern their lands according to dechen ts'edilhtan, the laws of their ancestors. Through their history, their control over their lands and waters have faced ...
• A call to modernize police accountability: an evaluation of the law’s response to excess use of force by police in British Columbia 

  Pinette, Celia (2020-04-27)

  When a police officer exercises their statutory authority to use force against a member of society, and that force results in death, the public must have confidence that the police acted legitimately. The inquiry this ...
• Practices of pluralism: a comparative analysis of trans-systemic relationships in Europe and on Turtle Island 

  Cherry, Keith (2020-04-08)

  This dissertation is an exploration of the ways in which contemporary practices of pluralism are challenging, and being shaped by, concepts of state sovereignty. I explore two very different contexts; the relationship ...

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