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2015

Ogbogu, Ubaka, Caulfield, Timothy

Background The increasing push to commercialize university research has emerged as a significant science policy challenge. While the socio-economic benefits of increased and rapid research commercialization are often emphasized in policy statements and discussions, there is less mention or...

2015-01-01

O'Byrne, Shannon, Cohen, Ronnie

This article explores the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2014 decision in Bhasin v. Hrynew. This includes an assessment of the new duty of honesty in contractual performance and the newly identified organizing principle of good faith. The authors also discuss contracting out of the duty of honesty —...

2015-01-01

Reif, Linda C.

Introduction: Independent thematic human rights institutions have been established by some states to focus on the protection and promotion of one category of human rights or the rights of a vulnerable group.1 Children are a vulnerable population and, in response, thematic children’s rights...

2014

Adams, Eric M.

Introduction: Just over one hundred years ago, the first law students arrived at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. The University — still just a handful of brick buildings dotting a freshly cleared campus conveying more hopeful promise than venerable history — provided space, but not...

2014

Ogbogu, Ubaka, Burningham, Sarah, Caulfield, Timothy

The article examines the privacy and access to information issues have emerged in relation to the collection and use of human tissue for genetic and cell-based research in Canada. Topics discussed include individuals' rights of access to and control over the research use and disclosure of genetic...

2014

Pavlich, George

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...

2014

Reif, Linda C.

Introduction: It is estimated that over one billion persons around the world live with some form of disability. Persons with disabilities (PWDs) are often discriminated against and subjected to more egregious treatment by state and non-state actors. Women and girls with disabilities are often...

2014-01-01

Billingsley, Barbara

Introduction: Each of the scenarios described above gives rise to the same, long-standing question regarding document production in civil litigation, namely: are copies of otherwise unprivileged original documents or records, gathered for the dominant purpose of litigation (i.e. \"ingathered...

2014

Ogbogu, Ubaka, Burningham, Sarah

There is significant public interest in the outcomes of genetic research. However, there is also a great deal of concern that genetic research and associated realms will foster the use and disclosure of personal health and genetic information in ways that undermine protected privacy interests....

2014

Skorodenski, Laura K., Lai, Jessica C., Bell, Catherine

Issues around defining respectful relationships, and within those relationships, reconciling laws and values concerning use and control of intangible Indigenous heritage, arise in numerous museum contexts including : repatriation of material culture and associated information ; co-management of...