• ‘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 ...
• Global Corruption: Its Regulation under International Conventions, US, UK, and Canadian Law and Practice 

  Ferguson, Gerry (2022-02-24)

  This book has been specifically created to make it easier for professors to offer a law school course on global corruption. It is also designed as a resource tool for all persons working in the anti-corruption field. The ...
• Réseaux de solidarité et syndicalisme: les travailleurs informels se débrouillent seuls en Inde 

  Routh, Supriya (Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, 2014)

  With the help of a case study of a trade union initiative of informal workers in Kolkata, India, I argue that if informal workers in developing countries have to ameliorate their working conditions and living standards, ...
• Pathways of Resurgence: Considering L’nuwey Tplutaqan (Mi’kmaw law) in Mi’kma’ki 

  McMillan, L. Jane (2022-01-24)

  The Mi’kmaw Nation is no stranger to Canadian injustice. Donald Marshall, a Mi’kmaq man from Nova Scotia, was wrongly convicted of murder in 1971. He served 11 years of a life sentence. In 1989, a Royal Commission into his ...
• 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, ...
• Cree law & Treaty 6 

  Lindberg, Darcy (2021-11-30)

  This presentation explores the use of Cree legal processes and legal principles in the negotiations of Treaty 6. While the implementation of the treaty has under-utilized Cree law, Professor Darcy Lindberg offers pathways ...
• 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, ...
• Baha'i law 

  Danesh, Roshan (2021-11-02)

  The presentation provides a broad overview of Baha'i law in its historical, cultural, social, religious, political, and legal contexts. This includes situating Baha'i law within processes and discourses of social change ...
• Studying Islamic Law in a Changing World 

  Farahat, Omar (2021-10-26)

  Why do we study Islamic law in a time and place dominated by the laws of modern nation-states? Islamic law is a system of thought, interpretation, and enforcement that evolved over centuries based on the teachings of Prophet ...
• Researching Rabbinic legal traditions: a textual case-study 

  Daum, Robert (2021-10-25)

  This session provides a brief overview of some key aspects of the Jewish legal tradition, including some terms and concepts, historical issues, literary genres, and major collections. Dr. Robert Daum focused on a particular ...
• Zoroastrian law 

  Jany, János (2021-10-20)

  The lecture focuses on the history, concepts and main issues of Zoroastrian law. We begin with a historic overview to see how Persian (tribal) law evolved into a religious law of Zoroastrianism. The second part is about ...
• AI & legal thinking 

  Gaon, Aviv; Ramshaw, Sara (2021-09-29)

  The future of legal thinking in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers an extensive analysis of how judges, legal professionals, scholars, and students understand law. As law is becoming increasingly digitized, it ...
• 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 ...
• 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)

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