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- Vol 48 No 3 (October 2015)
- John Borrows, “The Durability of Terra Nullius: Tsilhqot’in Nation v British Columbia”
- Gordon Christie, “Who Makes Decisions over Aboriginal Title Lands?”
- P.G. McHugh, “Aboriginal Title: Travelling from (or to?) an Antique Land?”
- Kent McNeil, “Exclusive Occupation and Joint Aboriginal Title”
- Val Napoleon, “Tsilhqot’in Law of Consent”
- Jacinta Ruru, “Lenses of Comparison across Continents: Understanding Modern Aboriginal Title in Tsilhqot’in Nation and Ngati Apa”
- David M. Rosenberg, Q.C. & Jack Woodward, Q.C., “The Tsilhqot’in Case: The Recognition and Affirmation of Aboriginal Title in Canada”
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- Elaine Craig, “Examining the Websites of Canada’s “Top Sex Crime Lawyers”: The Ethical Parameters of Online Commercial Expression by the Criminal Defence Bar”
- Craig Forcese & Ani Mamikon, “Neutrality Law, Anti-terrorism, and Foreign Fighters: Legal Solutions to the Recruitment of Canadians to Foreign Insurgencies”
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- Emily Snyder, Val Napoleon & John Borrows, “Gender and Violence: Drawing on Indigenous Legal Resources”
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- Michelle Biddulph & Dwight Newman, “Equality Rights, Ratio Identification, and the Un/Predictable Judicial Path Not Taken: Quebec (Attorney General) v A and R v Ibanescu”
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- Mark Ebert, “Overcoming the Dispositionism of Aboriginal Rights in Canada: Culture in the Mind versus Life in the World”
- Angela Lee, “Vague, Voluntary, and Void: A Critique of the British Columbia Community Contribution Company Hybrid Model”
- Joshua Nichols, “Claims of Sovereignty–Burdens of Occupation: William and the future of Reconciliation”
- Vol 47 No 3 (October 2014)
- Emma Cunliffe, Deirdre Howard-Wagner & Nan Seuffert, “Introduction to the Special Issue: Law on the Edge”
- Nigel Bankes, Sharon Mascher & Jonnette Watson Hamilton, “The Recognition of Aboriginal Title and Its Relationship with Settler State Land Titles Systems”
- Stacey R. Jessiman, “The Edgy State of Decolonization at the Canadian Museum of History”
- L. Jane McMillan, “Still Seeking Justice: The Marshall Inquiry Narratives”
- Bruce Miller, “An Ethnographic View of Legal Entanglements on the Salish Sea Borderlands”
- David Milward, “The Sentencing of Aboriginal Accused with FASD: A Search for Different Pathways”
- Janna Promislow, “Treaties in History and Law”
- Amanda Wilson, “Putting Therapeutic Jurisprudence on Edge: A Gendered Engagement”
- Bernadette McSherry, “Manifest Madness: Mental Incapacity in Criminal Law” by Arlie Loughnan
- Vol 47 No 2 (July 2014)
- Barbara Billingsley, “Policies & Prejudice: The Mandatory Disclosure of Liability
- Angela Campbell, “I Do, I Will”
- Sari Graben, “Lessons for Indigenous Property Reform: From Membership to Ownership on Nisga’a Lands”
- Andrew Green, “Can There Be Too Much Context in Administrative Law? Setting the Standard of Review in Canada”
- Sam Grey, “Self-Determination, Subordination, and Semantics: Rhetorical and Real-World Conflicts Over the Human Rights of Indigenous Women”
- Douglas C Harris & May Au, “Title Registration and the Abolition of Notice in British Columbia”
- Fiona Kelly, “Multiple-Parent Families Under British Columbia’s New Family Law Act: A Challenge to the Supremacy of the Nuclear Family or a Method by which to Preserve Biological Ties and Opposite-Sex Parenting”
- Bruce A MacFarlane, QC, “Wrongful Convictions: Determining Culpability When the Sand Keeps Shifting”
- Susanna Quail, “Yah’guudang: The Principle of Respect in the Haida Legal Tradition”
- Christopher Sherrin, “Wilful Blindness: A Confused and Unnecessary Basis for Criminal Liability?”
- Alice Woolley, “The Lawyer as Advisor and the Practice of the Rule of Law”
- Micah B Rankin, “The Slow and Rocky Road to Reforming the British Columbia Offence Act”
- Vol 47 No 1 (January 2014)
- Brian R Cheffins, “Hedge Fund Activism Canadian Style”
- Claudio R Rojas, “An Indeterminate Theory of Canadian Corporate Law”
- Sarah E Hamill, “Location Matters: How Nuisance Governs Access to Property for Free Expression”
- Constance MacIntosh, “Tsilhqot’in Nation v BC: Reconfiguring Aboriginal Title in the Name of Reconciliation”
- Chilenye Nwapi, “A Necessary Look at Necessity Jurisdiction”
- Ubaka Ogbogu, Sarah Burningham, & Timothy Caulfield, “The Right to Control and Access Genetic Research Information: Does McInerney Offer a Way Out of the Consent/Withdrawal Conundrum?”
- Shin Imai & Ashley Stacey, “Municipalities and the Duty to Consult Aboriginal Peoples: A Case Comment on Neskonlith Indian Band v Salmon Arm (City)”
- Lorne Neudorf, “Declaratory Legislation: Legislatures in the Judicial Domain?”
- Vol 46 No 3 (September 2013)
- Jon Festinger, QC, “Introductory Essay: Digital Media, Video Games, and the Law”
- Lorne Sossin & Meredith Bacal, “Judicial Ethics in a Digital Age”
- Tina van der Linden, “Stealing Masks and Amulets: What’s Law Got to Do with It?”
- Sara M Grimes, “Persistent and Emerging Questions About the Use of End-User Licence Agreements in Children’s Online Games and Virtual Worlds”
- Michela Fiorido, “Moral Rights and Mods: Protecting Integrity Rights in Video Games”
- Michael A. Carrier, “Only ‘Scraping’ the Surface: The Copyright Hole in the FTC’s Google Settlement
- Lisa Jørgensen, “In Plain View?: R v Jones and the Challenge of Protecting Privacy Rights in an Era of Computer Search”
- Vol 46 No 2 (June 2013)
- Gary Watt, “The Tyranny of Equality and the Torment of Equity”
- Hilary Evans Cameron & Josh Stark, “Under the IRPA and after Irving: The Right to Standing before the Federal Court for Canadian Children Seeking to Challenge Their Parents’ Deportations”
- Lisa Dufraimont, “Limited Admissibility and Its Limitations”
- Brenda L Gunn, “More Than Money: Using International Law of Reparations to Determine Fair Compensation for Infringements of Aboriginal Title”
- Carissima Mathen, “A Precarious Chancy Situation”: Aboriginal Gaming Rights in Canada
- Kaitlin Ritchie, “Issues Associated with the Implementation of the Duty to Consult and Accommodate Aboriginal Peoples: Threatening the Goals of Reconciliation and Meaningful Consultation”
- Geneviève Saumier & Jeffrey Bagg, “Forum Selection Clauses before Canadian Courts: A Tale of Two (or Three?) Solitudes”
- Simon N Verdun-Jones & Michelle S. Lawrence, “The Charter Right to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment: A Comparative Analysis of the Laws of Ontario and British Columbia Concerning the Right of Mental Health Patients to Refuse Psychiatric Treatment”
- Hilary Young, “Rethinking Canadian Defamation Law as Applied to Corporate Plaintiffs”
- Cameron J Hutchison, “The 2012 Supreme Court Copyright Decisions & Technological Neutrality”
- Vol 46 No 1 (January 2013)
- Stefanie Carsley, “Tort’s Response to Surrogate Motherhood: Providing Surrogates with a Remedy for Breached Agreements”
- Katherine Beaty Chiste, “The Origins of Modern Restorative Justice: Five Examples from the English-Speaking World”
- David Milward, “Opposing Mr. Big in Principle”
- Christopher Sewrattan, “Apples, Oranges, and Steel: The Effect of Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offences on the Equality Rights of Aboriginal Peoples”
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Understanding ‘Trade as a Whole’ in the Securities Reference”
- Ljiljana Biukovic, “International Trade Law and Domestic Policy: Canada, the United States, and the WTO” by Jacqueline D Krikorian
- Vol 45 No 3 (October 2012)
- Pitman B Potter, “Introduction: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Pacific Rim”
- Jim Cooney, “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Pacific Rim: Drawing the Boundaries”
- Catherine Coumans, “Mining and Access to Justice: From Sanction and Remedy to Weak Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms”
- Nadira Lamrad, “Transnational Business, CSR, and Governance in China”
- Masao Nakamura & Sven Tommi Rebien, “Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance: Japanese Firms and Selective Adaptation”
- Janis Sarra & Masafumi Nakahigashi, “Kigyo no Shakai-teki Sekinin: Challenges for Corporate Social Responsibility in Japan”
- Vol 45 No 2 (June 2012)
- Stephanie Ben-Ishai & Stephen J Lubben, “Involuntary Creditors and Corporate Bankruptcy”
- Colleen M Flood & Patrick Dyke, “The Data Divide: Managing the Misalignment in Canada’s Evidentiary Requirements for Drug Regulation and Funding
- Jalia Kangave, “Investigating the Failure of Resettlement and Rehabilitation in Development Projects: A Critical Analysis of the World Bank’s Policy on Involuntary Resettlement Using Lessons from Uganda’s Bujagali Hydroelectric Project”
- Freya Kodar, “The Woodlands School Litigation and Settlement: Further Complications for Historical Abuse Claims”
- Emily MacKinnon & Constance Crompton, “The Gender of Lying: Feminist Perspectives on the Non-Disclosure of HIV Status”
- Bryan Mercurio & Justin Wong, “Low-Carbon-Emissions Standards and the WTO: Do California Measures Targeting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Discriminate against Canadian Oil?”
- Richard Moon, “Freedom of Religion under the Charter of Rights: The Limits of State Neutrality”
- Lorne Neudorf, “Home Invasion by Regulation: Truckers and Reasonable Expectations of Privacy under Section 8 of the Charter”
- Lorne Sossin, “Indigenous Self-Government and the Future of Administrative Law ”
- Delloyd J Guth, “House of Lords Reform: A History, Volume I: The Origins to 1937: Proposals Deferred” by Peter Raina
- Vol 45 No 1 (January 2012)
- Timothy Bottomer, “Dagenais 2.0: Technology and Its Impact on the Dagenais Test”
- Eugénie Brouillet & Yves Tanguay, “The Legitimacy of the Constitutional Arbitration Process in a Multinational Federative Regime: The Case of the Supreme Court of Canada”
- Ian Peach, “Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Future of Federal Regulation of Indian Status”
- Alice Woolley, “Rhetoric and Realities: What Independence of the Bar Requires of Lawyer Regulation”
- Douglas C. Harris & Karin Mickelson, “Finding Nemo Dat in the Land Title Act: A Comment on Gill v Bucholtz”
- Eugene C. Lim, “Malice, Qualified Privilege, and the New Responsible Communication Defence to Defamation: Which Way Forward for Investigative Journalism in Canada?”
- Adam Parachin, “The Law and Practice Relating to Charities, 4th ed, Hubert Picarda”
- Byron Shaw, “Supreme Court of Canada Affirms the Request Principle in R v Imperial Tobacco”
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