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2011

Lund, Anna, Ben-David, Michelle, Fernandez, Ubaldo

The following articles are student responses and observations of a selected few panels at Berkeley Law's 2010 Symposium "Empowered Partnerships: Participatory Action Research for Environmental Justice" hosted by the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and cosponsored by Students for...

2011

Lund, Anna, Ben-David, Michelle, Fernandez, Ubaldo

The following articles are student responses and observations of a selected few panels at Berkeley Law's 2010 Symposium \"Empowered Partnerships: Participatory Action Research for Environmental Justice\" hosted by the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and cosponsored by Students for...

1984

Wood, Roderick J., Schmeiser, Douglas A.

Introduction: The arrival of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms' has changed the direction of Canadian constitutional law. It marks a shift from Parliamentary supremacy to judicial scrutiny, where fundamental rights and freedoms are affected. The Charter, by virtue of its being part of...

1996

Lewans, Matthew

Introduction: Medical products have a therapeutic potential that can substantially improve the quality of life. Nevertheless, technological progress in the field of medicine is consistently met with guarded optimism. The benefits to be gained are often accompanied by unexpected risks. If injury...

2010

Wood, Roderick J.

Introduction: Working out a satisfactory legal analysis of subordination agreements is a slippery business. A subordination agreement involves a contractual modification of the legal rules that ordinarily govern the order of repayment or distribution to creditors or the priority ranking of their...

2013-01-01

Ogbogu, Ubaka

Introduction: When should health be treated as a subject of criminal law? With respect to health, the Constitution Act, 18671 does not specifically assign legislative authority to any level of government. As a result, Parliament and provincial legislatures can enact laws relating to health. This...

1999

McInnes, Mitchell

In this article, the author explores the principle of unjust enrichment as formulated by courts of common law jurisdictions in Canada. He analyzes and assesses that principle in light of comparable principles applied in England, Australia and Quebec. He argues that while sound in many respects,...

2009-01-01

Adams, Eric

Introduction: At 10:20 a.m. on 4 December 2008 - some forty minutes after Prime Minister Stephen Harper entered Rideau Hall to request that the Governor General, Michaelle Jean, prorogue Canada's fortieth Parliament - the media reported an exciting development: the front doors opened. Reporters...

2007

O'Byrne, Shannon

This article assists common law practitioners to predict when good faith obligations are owed in the context of contractual performance by organizing recent case law. The article concludes by advocating for express recognition of a common law rule that would mandate good faith as the governing,...

2011

Ogbogu, Ubaka

This paper examines the historical role of law and politics in the adoption of smallpox vaccination in Britain, focusing primarily on the early Victorian period, when legislation was passed to enforce compulsory infantile vaccination. The primary thesis of the study is that law, and the processes...