10 articles in this issue
Philipp Kastner
This article argues that the shortcomings of the currently dominant transitional justice model, which largely ignores considerations of social justice, can be explained by several structural factors within the international legal system. It considers the ... see more
Bethany Hastie
This article examines the barriers migrant workers face in accessing justice, including the ability to assert legal rights in the workplace, and to access mechanisms for legal redress or remedy. Drawing on empirical research, and using the capabilities ap... see more
Asher Alkoby, Pnina Alon-Shenker
While Canadian law generally provides protection against sexual orientation discrimination, and social acceptance is growing, there are some indications that LGBTQ lawyers face barriers relating to their sexual identity. Although more LGBTQ lawyers are no... see more
Michaela Keet, Heather Heavin, Shawna Sparrow
Despite growing national attention on the costs of accessing justice, surprisingly little information has been collected about the psychological ‘costs’ of engaging in litigation. This article summarizes the health and psychology literature, to present a... see more
Beth Bilson, Brea Lowenberger, Graham Sharp
Among the strategies to improve public access to justice, increasing the accessibility and comprehensibility of legal information must be ranked as important. In this paper, the authors explore how libraries and librarians might play a role in providing t... see more
Caroline Hodes
This article examines a series of unarticulated gender dynamics that shaped some of the recent changes to the legal test for discrimination under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Despite the volume of literature that references R. v. ... see more
Sarah Hamill, Pippa Feinstein
This article assesses to what extent the recent litigation over the accreditation of Trinity Western University’s proposed law school includes and considers queer voices. We argue that a close examination of how queer people’s voices appear in these deci... see more
Sarah Marsden, Sarah Buhler
The definition and framing of legal competencies affects how lawyers learn and enact their roles and forms a necessary site of engagement in evaluating the relationship between law and justice. Drawing on two community-based studies with members of ma... see more
Étienne F Lacombe
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child confers on children a number of rights, not the least of which is the guarantee that their best interests shall be a primary consideration in all actions that concern them. This article applies the Best Interes... see more
Andrij Kowalsky
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