• 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 ...
• The Surprise of Invention: Making Fun of the Statutory 

  Limon, Cressida; Ramshaw, Sara (Australian Feminist Law Journal, 2014-07-03)
• Law and Humanities: A Field Without a Canon 

  Ramshaw, Sara (Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2019-11-05)

  This short Commentary imagines law and humanities not as a “canon” per se, but as a “field without a canon”; or a canon that resists canonization. Arts-based practices utilized in legal research and teaching expose the law ...
• 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 ...
• Independence Sans Accountability: A Case for Right to Information Against the Indian Judiciary 

  Routh, Supriya (Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 2014)

  The Indian Supreme Court may be standing at a historic juncture where it could throw open the doors to the public to question its accountability by disclosing information pertaining to the assets and interests of the ...
• The Judiciary and (Labour) Law in the Development Discourse in India 

  Routh, Supriya (Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and LatinAmerica, 2011)
• From Employee to Homo Faber? Considerations about Union Renewal and Informal Workers in Brazil and India 

  Frangi, Lorenzo; Routh, Supriya (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2014-12)

  For the purpose of trade union renewal, it is suggested that trade unions need to convert themselves from being institutions centred on employeremployee relations to open source ones engaged with broader social justice ...
• The Role of Law Schools in Educating Judges to Increase Access to Justice 

  Buhai, Sande L.; Kumari, Ved; Omaka C., Amari; Rosenbaum, Stephen A.; Routh, Supriya; Taylor, Anne (Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, 2011)

  This article' examines the role of judges as public citizens creating access to justice and, in particular, the roles that law schools play in educating judges to better perform their crucial role. This article takes a ...
• Experiential Learning through Community Lawyering: A Proposal for Indian Legal Education 

  Routh, Supriya (Pacific McGeorge Global Business & Development Law Journal, 2011)

  The idea of community lawyering is increasingly being pointed to as an effective mechanism to serve the legal needs of impoverished and underprivileged groups. Instead of advocacy on behalf of an individual client, advocacy ...
• Une Constitution a deux vitesses: Les travailleurs et l’egalite devant la loi en Inde 

  Routh, Supriya (Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, 2015)

  La Consitution indienne est fondée sur les idéaux de justice, de liberté, d'égalité et de fraternité. Cet article analyse les contours du concept d'égalité dans la Constitution indienne en se positionnant du point de vue ...
• Informal Workers’ Aggregation and Law 

  Routh, Supriya (Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 2016)

  In India, more than ninety percent of the workforce is informal. In spite of this enormous percentage of informal workers, these workers remain invisible to law and policy circles. One of the reasons for such exclusion and ...
• An Ambitious Interpretation of the Informal for Policy-Makers 

  Routh, Supriya (Yojana, 2014)

  Since the last decade, there has been a resurgence of interest (after the 1970s bout of interest on the subject) by academics and policy-makers equally on the informal economy. The International Labour Organization (ILO) ...
• Legal Education at the Crossroads 

  Routh, Supriya (Journal of Indian Law and Society, 2009)

  Unlike the prevalent discussion in the established scholarship associated with legal education, this article presents an alternative to the prevailing notion of the ‘Legal Education’ on the whole. The present discussion ...
• 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 ...

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