• 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 ...
• “Playing the hand you’re dealt”: an analysis of Musg̱a̱makw Dzawada̱'enux̱w traditional governance and its resurgence 

  Nicolson, Gwi'molas Ryan Silas Douglas (2020-02-06)

  The Musg̱a̱makw Dzawada̱’enux̱w have lived since time immemorial in what is now known as central British Columbia. This thesis identifies who the Musg̱a̱makw Dzawada̱’enux̱w are, their form of self-government and their ...
• Cambodia's competing constitutional sites and spirits 

  Lawrence, Benjamin (2019-12-20)

  This thesis studies the Cambodian Constitution from a socio-legal and ethnographic perspective, highlighting some of the multiple ways in which diverse constitutional discourses and practices manifest themselves in the ...
• Laws of the land: indigenous and state jurisdictions on the Central Coast 

  Colgrove, Sarah (2019-12-20)

  With discussion of Indigenous laws on the rise in Canada, this thesis explores the question of law’s power: jurisdiction. In this project, I ask whether Indigenous jurisdiction is active in conflicts between Indigenous and ...
• Miinigowiziwin: all that has been given for living well together: one vision of Anishinaabe constitutionalism 

  Mills, Aaron James (Waabishki Ma’iingan) (2019-07-22)

  Ending colonialism requires the revitalization of not only indigenous systems of law, but also the indigenous legalities of which they form part. This means that Canada’s unique form of liberal constitutionalism cannot ...
• Law and justice: Scott v. Canada and the history of the social covenant with Canadian veterans 

  Minnes, Jonathan David (2019-05-31)

  This paper explores the issues underlying the Scott v. Canada veteran class action lawsuit. In particular it seeks to provide context to these issues by examining the cultural and legal structure of the Canadian military, ...
• Provisional measures in international arbitration as a response to parallel criminal proceedings 

  Galagan, Dmytro (2019-05-01)

  The central subject of this thesis is the power of an arbitral tribunal to order a state to refrain from pursuing criminal proceedings against a commercial enterprise if such an investigation constitutes an abuse of power ...
• Exploring film's jurisprudence in Sean Baker's films 

  Goud, Brittany R. (2019-04-30)

  In this thesis I am working at the intersection of law and film. I approach this work from the perspective of a practicing lawyer, former social worker, and through my own lived experiences to tease out and examine ...
• Whose water is it anyway? Indigenous water sovereignty in Canada: an Indigenous resurgence analysis of the case of Halalt First Nation v British Columbia 

  Zakrison, Michelle (2018-12-19)

  Colonialism is ongoing in Canada and continues to affect Indigenous-state relations in a number of political and social areas, including water governance. Few other studies link colonial and decolonizing concepts to ...
• (Re)Imagining 'justice': documentation of sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls in Myanmar 

  Etmanski, Theressa (2018-10-02)

  The Rohingya population of Myanmar have been called one of the most persecuted ethnic minorities on earth. Beyond the systemic discrimination and ongoing violations of basic human rights, Tatmadaw operations against Rohingya ...
• Competition Law and the Possibility of Private Transnational Governance 

  Phan, Thanh Cong (Houston Journal of International Law, 2018-03-07)

  Under economic globalization, anti-competitive acts transcend national borders and become a challenge for competition law as traditionally conceived. Most countries have been dealing with cross-border competition problems ...
• Community corrections in China: problems, political goals, and the way forward 

  Kong, Qi (2018-08-30)

  In this thesis, I examine the implementation of community corrections in China with a focus on the factors preventing it from functioning effectively, as well as the possible way forward for the system. I introduce the ...
• Comparative law gets entitled: the 1900 Paris Congress in contexts 

  Fournier, Mireille (2018-08-30)

  This thesis examines the intellectual context of the first international congress of comparative law held in Paris, at the occasion of the 1900 World Fair. In particular, it articulates some of the unstated assumptions ...

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