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- 1Bell, Catherine
- 1Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa
- 1Lerner, Craig S.
- 1O'Byrne, Shannon
- 1Oshioebo, Evaristus
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2014
This article returns to a colonial discourse on crime, criminals, and punishment that the court of justice enunciated and followed during an 8-year British occupation of the Cape of Good Hope in the latter part of 1795. Tapping unusually frank juridical discussions on criminality and punishment...
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Repatriation of cultural property and Aboriginal rights: A survey of contemporary legal issues
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ABSTRACT. As a result of increasedaboriginaldemands, museumsand govemments are reassessing their roles as guardians of various forms of cultural property. However, an underlyingpresumption in thisprocessis thatastrictlegalanalysisofownershipwill notfavour aboriginalownershipof the...
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2007
Lerner, Craig S., Yahya, Moin A.
Introduction: According to a recent issue of Business Week, many hotshots of American industry are fleeing publicly traded corporations for \"the money, freedom and glamour of private equity.\"' Among the reasons cited for their departure is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which not only...
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Punitive Damages and the Requirement for an Independent Actionable Wrong: Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co.
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O'Byrne, Shannon, Oshioebo, Evaristus
Introduction: In Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., the Supreme Court of Canada considered whether a jury award of $1 million in punitive damages against an insurance company for breach of a contract was reviewable. Also considered was whether breach of an insurer's duty to act in good faith amounted...
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2012
How might one read a collection of transcriptions—such as The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1—that exemplifies how to read other texts deconstructively? In the spirit of Derrida’s text, a response to this question remains radically undecided; however, it certainly does not imply the absence of...
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Lawyer-Politicians and Law Societies: Navigating the Intersection between Democracy and Accountability
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Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa
In this essay that won the 2024 Sheldon M. Chumir Memorial Award in Ethics, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, I argue that striking the proper balance between a law society’s commitment to democracy and its jurisdiction over lawyer-politicians warrants the limiting of actionable complaints to...