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- 5Wood, Roderick J.
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- 3Bell, Catherine
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Gender discrimination in the common law of domicile and the application of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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A married woman must take her husband's domicile at common law. This rule exists in five of Canada's provinces. It is argued that the rule violates the right to equality. It is further argued that, notwithstanding the Supreme Court's decision in Dolphin Delivery, the Charter must apply to common...
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1991
In this paper, the author discusses the use of storytelling by certain members of the Critical Legal Studies Movement (CLS). She describes the stories told by three CLS scholars and offers the thesis that the methodology and attitudinal perspective present in their narrative voices promote a...
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1992
Wood, Roderick J., Wylie, Michael I.
The authors trace the chaotic growth of nonconsensual security interests in personal property. Rules governing non-consensual security interests are analyzed and shown to have developed in an inconsistent and unpredictable manner. The authors set out a framework to resolve the priority contests...
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1992
Introduction: When asked by a teacher of law what must be done to inherit eternal life, Jesus responded with the parable of the Good Samaritan. A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving...
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1993
Brown, Murray T., Wood, Roderick J., Bauman, Richard W.
This study examines the extent to which publicly traded Alberta corporations have included provisions in their corporate constitutions that modify or vary a corporate governance rule that would otherwise apply. Part I discusses the notion of contractual freedom in corporate law and identifies the...
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1995
Introduction: For many aboriginal peoples in Canada the concept of aboriginal rights includes a right to exercise control over cultural property.' To date, the assertion of this right has, in most cases, been limited to extra-judicial negotiation. For example, modern land claims agreements such...
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1996
The pioneering efforts of women such as Emily Murphy in Alberta during the early part of this century effected legal change and altered women's lives. Women began to see the law as a vehicle for social change, entitling them to property and giving rise to new expectations that a world of \"true...