10 articles in this issue
Genevieve Renard Painter
The notion of reparations encompasses debates about the relationship between individual and society, the nature of political community, the meaning of justice, and the impact of rights on social change. In international law, the dominant approach to repar... see more
Jennifer Koshan
In August, 2011, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released its decision in Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v United States, a case concerning states’ obligations to use due diligence in responding to domestic violence. The IACHR found that the Uni... see more
Pascale Fournier, Erica See
This article will consider the case study of Québec’s Bill 94 (An Act to establish guidelines governing accommodation requests within the Administration and certain institutions), introduced in March 2010, one of many recent bans imposed on the wearing of... see more
Richard Jochelson, Kirsten Kramar
In the recent case of R. v J.A, the majority of the Supreme Court of Canada determined that an unconscious person could not consent in advance to sexual touching. This paper reviews the majority reasoning and questions whether the intervention of the Wome... see more
Micah B. Rankin
Canadian citizens’ inability to access courts has been a subject of controversy for decades. Despite widespread evidence that Canada’s legal aid system is faltering, governments continue to be unwilling to commit the resources necessary to remedy the prob... see more
Jona Goldschmidt, Loretta Stalans
How much assistance should a trial judge provide a self-represented litigant [SRL] before the judge’s impartiality will be reasonably questioned? This question has been of continuing concern to both the bench and bar ever since the rise of the pro se liti... see more
Merran Lawler, Jeff Gibbings, Michael Robertson
This article considers the utility of resources designed to assist people undertaking their own legal work. Four in-depth case studies are used to explore the tensions inherent in providing coherent and user-oriented resources to legal self-helpers in env... see more
Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, Gerhard Kemp
Modern threats to international peace and security from so called “Hybrid Threats”, multimodal threats such as cyber war, low intensity asymmetric conflict scenarios, global terrorism etc. which involve a diverse and broad community of affected stakeholde... see more
Hélène Piquet
The study analyses the renewal of extrajudicial mediation in China in terms of access to justice. This renewal is discussed in its political context, notably the fact that the legislation resorts to local paradigms and uses them as background for the proc... see more
Stéphane Lefebvre
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