Alberta Law Review  

Roderick J. Wood

Circular priority problems are endemic in secured transaction law. A circular priority situation arises when there are three or more parties with competing claims to the same asset and there is no clear ranking of priority among them. There are multiple a... see more

Javier Valls Prieto, Wayne N. Renke

In this article, the rules for self-defence in Canada and Spain are compared and contrasted. We will offer an explanation for the recognition of self-defence, in its several forms; describe some formal similarities and differences between the two versions... see more

A.C. Pritchard, Janis P. Sarra

The article explores securities class actions involving Canadian issuers since the provinces added secondary market class action provisions to their securities legislation. It examines the development of civil liability provisions, and class proceedings l... see more

Jonnette Watson Hamilton, Jennifer Koshan

This article examines current confusion surrounding how courts are to analyze challenges brought under s. 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The authors begin with a review of the 2008 Supreme Court of Canada decision in R. v. Kapp, which... see more

Lynda M. Collins, Meghan Murtha

This article is an exploration of Aboriginal and treaty rights strategies for protecting Indigenous environmental rights in Canada. The analysis begins with an outline of the problem, and the shortcomings of the available general law avenues. The authors ... see more

Colin Feasby

Canadian political finance law has struggled with the question of how to treat small political parties and third parties. The author contends that data gathered by Elections Canada concerning third party expenditures over the last four federal elections p... see more

Alice Woolley, Shaun Fluker

In Dunsmuir the Supreme Court of Canada reassessed the “troubling question” of how courts should review decisions of administrative tribunals. The majority judgment of Bastarache and LeBel JJ. (writing also for McLachlin, Abella, and Fish JJ.), sought t... see more

William MacKinnon

Patrick, the Supreme Court of Canada’s latest landmark privacy decision, will have a tremendous impact on policing in years to come. In Patrick, police officers sifted through the curbside garbage of Mr. Patrick, discovered compelling evidence of drug pr... see more

Elaine Hughes

In 2005, commenting on a government review of the main federal toxic substances control legislation, Jason Unger aptly described the general public’s usual role in Canadian environmental law: “[They are] left to wander a maze of legislative and non-legis... see more

Marie-Ann Bowden

As a former history student and erstwhile professor of first-year property, The Law of the Land: The Advent of the Torrens System in Canada by Greg Taylor offered me an opportunity to engage in academic reading with just a hint of “night table book” ind... see more