9 articles in this issue
William A. Schabas
Although more than half of the States in the world are parties tothe Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, morethan eighty have yet to ratify. The article considers the relationshipof the Court with these non-party States. It examines theexerc... see more
Judy Fudge
In Health Services and Support – Facilities Subsector BargainingAssociation v. British Columbia, [2007] 2 S.C.R.391, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned precedent andconcluded “that the grounds advanced in the earlier decisions forthe exclusion of coll... see more
Robyn Carroll, Anita Smith
Recognition of the benefits that mediation offers to litigants andto the court and tribunal systems has led to formal recognitionand institutionalization of the process in Australia, Canada, theUSA and many other countries. In many instances, these benefi... see more
Desmond Manderson
Henry James’ short novel The Turn of the Screw appeared in 1898. It is a ghost story, uncanny both in content and in form. It relates such uneventful events that the reader is left turning from interpretation to interpretation, trying to determine just wh... see more
Catherine Piché
In this paper, I describe the face of modern civil justice and discuss four paradoxes which justify re-evaluating the role of the judge responsible for reviewing class action settlements, in light of modern judicial culture. I also critically evaluate the... see more
Ena Chadha
This article examines disclosure process and disclosure jurisprudence in human rights litigation. Based on a study of a decade of human rights disclosure rulings from across the country, this article finds that there have been increasing numbers of disclo... see more
Sascha-Dominik Bachmann, Peter Galvin
Contemporary British anti-terror legislation has been characterised by an extensive use of extra-ordinary detention measures: the Terrorism Act 2000 and Terrorism Act 2006 contain provisions, which enable the extended pre-charge detention of terror suspec... see more
Elaine Craig
The notion that queer theory and feminism are inevitably in tension with one another has been well developed both by queer and feminist theorists. Queer theorists have critiqued feminist theories for being anti-sex, overly moralistic, essentialist, and st... see more
Alan Norrie
William Twining claims that it is time for a radical rethink of the way jurisprudenceis taught. Adopting a global and pluralistic perspective can point the wayto what is wrong and how things may be changed. Twining’s earliest intellectualexperiences conce... see more