• 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 ...
• The situation in south-east Turkey: Is it an armed conflict for the purpose of international humanitarian law? 

  Unknown author (Kurdish Human Rights Project, 2007-12-12)

  This article aims to start an academic debate on the question of the insurgency in south-east Turkey and whether the clashes between the Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) can be classified as ...
• Low Yield Tactical Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Distinction 

  Breau, Susan (Flinders University, 2013)
• Treaties in History and Law 

  Promislow, Janna (UBC Law Review Society, 2014-10)

  Negotiated solutions – and in particular, treaties – have long been touted by scholars, policy-makers and political leaders as the best way to resolve outstanding issues between the Crown and aboriginal peoples and to move ...
• Recasting Our Wild Neighbours: Contesting Legal Otherness in Urban Human-Animal Conflicts 

  Deckha, Maneesha; Pritchard, Erin (UBC Law Review Society, 2016-01)
• Deference with a Difference: Dunsmuir and Aboriginal Rights 

  Promislow, Janna (Carswell, 2018-11-13)
• COVID-19 vaccines: intellectual-property challenges and transnational-legal opportunities 

  Ramraj, Victor V.; Gebru, Aman (2021-04-09)

  In October 2020, India and South Africa proposed the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily suspend trade-related intellectual property rights to COVID-19 vaccines and technologies. The proposal aims to ensure that ...
• Are Religious Freedom Cases Transsystemic? 

  Chan, Kathryn (2021-03-30)

  In this talk, Professor Kathryn Chan shared some evolving thoughts on the encounter between secular and religious legal traditions. She also shared findings from an ongoing project on the Immigration and Refugee Board’s ...
• Claire L’Heureux-Dubé: A Life, Constance Backhouse (Vancouver: Ubc Press for The Osgoode Society For Canadian Legal History, 2017) 

  Adjin-Tettey, Elizabeth; Kodar, Freya; Calder, Gillian; Cochran, Patricia; Deckha, Maneesha; Parmar, Pooja; Lessard, Hester; Plyley, Kate; Zion, Mark (Alberta Law Review Society, 2018-10-09)
• The Save Movement and Farmed Animal Suffering: The Advocacy Benefits of Bearing Witness as a Template for Law 

  Deckha, Maneesha (Faculty of Law of Thompson Rivers University, 2019)

  This paper critically analyzes the practices and legal regulation of the growing global phenomenon of the Save Movement, a (human) social movement directed at bearing witness to and raising awareness of the suffering of ...
• The “Pig Trial” Decision: The Save Movement, Legal Mischief, and the Legal Invisibilization of Farmed Animal Suffering 

  Deckha, Maneesha (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, 2019-01-01)
• A Missed Opportunity: Affirming the Section 15 Equality Argument against Physician-Assisted Death 

  Deckha, Maneesha (The McGill Journal of Law and Health, 2016)

  In the 2012 decision of Carter v Canada (AG) the British Columbia Supreme Court found that Section 15 equality rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms were infringed by the blanket prohibition against ...
• Book Review: The Duty To Consult: New Relationships With Aboriginal Peoples, by Dwight G. Newman 

  Promislow, Janna (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2010)
• Delegation, Deference and Difference: In Search of a Principled Approach to Implementing and Administering Aboriginal Rights 

  Promislow, Janna (The Supreme Court Law Review, 2019)

  In 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decided two duty to consult cases, heard together: Clyde River (Hamlet) v. Petroleum Geo-Services Inc. and Chippewas of the Thames First Nation v. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. (“the ...
• Book Review of Felix Hoehn, Reconciling Sovereignties. Aboriginal Nations and Canada (Saskatoon: Native Law Centre, 2012) 

  Promislow, Janna (Review of Constitutional Studies / Revue d’études constitutionnelles, 2012)
• Situating Canada’s Commercial Surrogacy Ban in a Transnational Context: A Postcolonial Feminist Call for Legalization and Public Funding 

  Deckha, Maneesha (2015-09)

  In large part due to feminist interventions in the early 1990s about the dangers of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) for women, Canada banned several practices related to ARTs when it enacted the Assisted Human ...
• Legislating Respect: A Pro-choice Feminist Legal Analysis of Embryo Research Restrictions in Canada 

  Deckha, Maneesha (2012-09)

  This article investigates the impact of legis- lating respect and dignity for the embryo in vitro on the legal and cultural status of the embryo in utero. It evaluates the restrictions on embryo re- search in Canada’s ...
• Failure of State Protection Within the Context of the Convention Refugee Regime with Particular Reference to Gender-Related Persecution 

  Adjin-Tettey, Elizabeth (1997)

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