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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...
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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 —...
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The future of thematic children’s rights institutions in a national human rights institution world: The Paris Principles and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
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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...
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Revolution on the path to access to justice - A closer look at the 2009 and 2010 reforms to the rules of civil procedure in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario and British Columbia
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Billingsley, Barbara, Franz, Joel
The article discusses the 2009 and 2010 reforms to the civil procedure rules in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and British Columbia, and it mentions access to justice and civil litigation in Canada, as well as Revised Rules for trials and pre-trial disclosures.
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2014
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...
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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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The right to control and access genetic research information: Does McInerney offer a way out of the consent/withdrawal conundrum?
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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...
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2014
Ollenberger, Adam, Ogbogu, Ubaka, Borry, Pascal, Bergmann, Manuela, Caulfield, Timothy, Nobile, Helene, Toews, Maeghan
Background. Biobanks are an important research resource that provides researchers with biological samples, tools and data, but have also been associated with a range of ethical, legal and policy issues and concerns. Although there have been studies examining the views of different stakeholders,...
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Lessons from Shakespeare’s tiger mothers: Parental and political authority in Coriolanus and Merchant of Venice
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Acorn, Annalise, Clackson, Katherine
Introduction: Yale Law Professor Amy Chua's memoire Battle Hmn of the TigerMotherl created a media sensation. 2 The book struck a powerful chord as hundreds clamoured to register either horror or approval of Chua's confessing to and advocating for a model of mothering that mixes in equal measure...
