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  • Constitution of Canada by Shigenori Matsui

    Constitution of Canada

    Shigenori Matsui

  • Introduction to American Constitutional Law, 7th ed. by Shigenori Matsui

    Introduction to American Constitutional Law, 7th ed.

    Shigenori Matsui

  • Gladue Handbook: A Resource for Justice System Participants in Manitoba by Debra Parkes

    Gladue Handbook: A Resource for Justice System Participants in Manitoba

    Debra Parkes

  • Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law by Benjamin Perrin

    Modern Warfare: Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law

    Benjamin Perrin

    The face of modern warfare is changing as more and more humanitarian organizations, private military companies, and non-state groups enter complex security environments such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. Although this shift has been overshadowed by the legal issues connected to the War on Terror and intervention in countries such as Rwanda and Darfur, it has caused some to question the relevance of existing international humanitarian law.

    To bridge the widening gap between the theory and practice of the law, Modern Warfare brings together both scholars and practitioners who offer unique, and often divergent, perspectives on four key challenges to the law’s legitimacy: how to ensure compliance among non-state armed groups; the proliferation of private military and security companies and their use by humanitarian organizations; tensions between the idea of humanitarian space and counterinsurgency doctrines; and the phenomenon of urban violence. The contributors do not simply consider settled legal standards – they widen the scope to include first principles, related bodies of law, humanitarian policy, and the latest studies on the prevention and mitigation of violence.

    By bringing to light international humanitarian law’s limitations – and potential – in the context of modern warfare’s rapidly changing landscape, Modern Warfare opens a path to preventing further unnecessary suffering and violence.

    Modern Warfare is mandatory reading for academics and practitioners of international law and students and scholars of security studies, international relations, and political science.

    [From UBC Press | Modern Warfare - Armed Groups, Private Militaries, Humanitarian Organizations, and the Law, Edited by Benjamin Perrin]

  • Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes: Coordinating Compliance by Pitman B. Potter, Heather Gibb, and Erika Cedillo

    Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes: Coordinating Compliance

    Pitman B. Potter, Heather Gibb, and Erika Cedillo

    Taken together, the symposium papers and presentations illustrate the rich diversity of perspectives and issues emerging from the discourse of Coordinated Compliance with regard to specific issues on gender equality and trade, revealing a fundamental concern over human well-being along with an abiding commitment to scholarly rigor.

    [From Gender Equality Rights and Trade Regimes: Coordinating Compliance by Pitman Potter :: SSRN]

  • Rule of Law and Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches To Economic Development Across the BRIC Countries by Nandini Ramanujam, Mara Verna, Julia Betts, Kuzi Charamba, and Marcus Moore

    Rule of Law and Economic Development: A Comparative Analysis of Approaches To Economic Development Across the BRIC Countries

    Nandini Ramanujam, Mara Verna, Julia Betts, Kuzi Charamba, and Marcus Moore

  • Values in Translation: Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank by Galit A. Sarfaty

    Values in Translation: Human Rights and the Culture of the World Bank

    Galit A. Sarfaty

  • Annual Review of Insolvency Law 2011 by Janis P. Sarra

    Annual Review of Insolvency Law 2011

    Janis P. Sarra

  • Human Trafficking: Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities by John Winterdyk, Benjamin Perrin, and Philip Reichel

    Human Trafficking: Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities

    John Winterdyk, Benjamin Perrin, and Philip Reichel

  • A Property Law Reader: Cases, Questions and Commentary, 3rd ed. by Bruce Ziff, Jeremy de Beer, Douglas C. Harris, and Margaret E. McCallum

    A Property Law Reader: Cases, Questions and Commentary, 3rd ed.

    Bruce Ziff, Jeremy de Beer, Douglas C. Harris, and Margaret E. McCallum

    A property law reader : cases, questions & commentary : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

  • Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children by Joel Bakan

    Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children

    Joel Bakan

    Joel Bakan reveals the astonishingly callous and widespread exploitation of children by profit-seeking corporations, and also society’s shameful failure to protect them. Bakan shows how corporations pump billions of dollars into rendering parents and governments powerless to shield children from a relentless commercial assault designed solely to exploit their unique needs and vulnerabilities.

    [From Childhood Under Siege - joelbakan.com]

  • Towards Human Trafficking Prevention: A Discussion Document by Nicole Barrett

    Towards Human Trafficking Prevention: A Discussion Document

    Nicole Barrett

  • Report on Proposals for Unfair Contracts Relief by Joost Blom, Margaret Easton, Russell Getz, Do‐Ellen Hansen, Allan Parker, Lisa Peters, Peter Rubin, Tony Wilson, Kevin Zakreski, and Unfai r
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    Report on Proposals for Unfair Contracts Relief

    Joost Blom, Margaret Easton, Russell Getz, Do‐Ellen Hansen, Allan Parker, Lisa Peters, Peter Rubin, Tony Wilson, Kevin Zakreski, and Unfai r Contract s Relie f Project Committee

    The basic purpose of the law of contracts is to ensure that promises made for consideration are enforced. Achieving this basic purpose offends the conscience of society in some cases. The courts have a longstanding jurisdiction to refuse to enforce contracts that are determined to be unfair.

    This report recommends reforms to the leading concepts used by contract law to tackle the problem of unfairness. These concepts are unconscionability, duress, undue influence, good faith, and misrepresentation. Over the past years, they have been considered in an increasing number of court decisions. This has led to an expansion of, and a degree of confusion about, their scope. It is now timely to rationalize and consolidate these concepts.

  • Maritime Security in Southeast Asia by John Bradford, Tim Cook, Hasjim Djalal, James Manicom, Meredith Miller, Neil A. Quartaro, Clive Schofield, Sheldon W. Simon, Ian Storey, and Ian Townsend-Gault

    Maritime Security in Southeast Asia

    John Bradford, Tim Cook, Hasjim Djalal, James Manicom, Meredith Miller, Neil A. Quartaro, Clive Schofield, Sheldon W. Simon, Ian Storey, and Ian Townsend-Gault

    This NBR Monograph examines maritime security issues in Southeast Asia, including disputes over resources, piracy, and other threats to strategic waterways, and draws implications for U.S. policy in the region.

    [Project MUSE - Maritime Security in Southeast Asia]

  • Is Your Defined-Benefit Pension Guaranteed?: Funding Rules, Insolvency Law and Pension Insurance by Ronald B. Davis

    Is Your Defined-Benefit Pension Guaranteed?: Funding Rules, Insolvency Law and Pension Insurance

    Ronald B. Davis

    This study analyzes the security of pension benefits in the case of a plan sponsor’s insolvency. Current pension regulation does not provide complete security to defined-benefit plan members, since it allows underfunding to occur. Indeed, argues author Ronald Davis, regulations often encourage practices that lead to questionable risk-taking in pension asset investment, and obscure some of the risks being carried on plan balance sheets.

    In recent high-profile cases, large sponsors became insolvent, and pension fund assets were insufficient to pay the benefits earned by workers and retirees. In response, bills were introduced to give higher priority of payment for claims against the sponsor by pension plan members. Davis finds a legal rationale for providing higher priority for unremitted employer contributions but not for the remaining part of an asset shortfall (as a result of depressed asset values or of differences between projected and realized inflation or interest rates, for example). Consequently, he finds insolvency law as a means to improve the security of pension benefits has only limited potential.

    Another policy option that is widely discussed is a national pension benefit guarantee scheme to insure benefits against a shortfall in pension assets in the event of the plan sponsor’s insolvency. If carefully designed, Davis believes such a scheme could mitigate the limitations of current plan funding regulations and the poor communication of these limitations to plan members. However, in addition to facing the same problems as any insurance plan, a benefit guarantee scheme would involve extensive federal-provincial negotiations. This is because the regulatory tools to control these insurance problems are under provincial jurisdiction, while presumably the fiscal risk of a national scheme would rest on the federal government.

    Regardless of whether governments wish to introduce a national pension benefit guarantee scheme, Davis recommends first reforming the funding and governance of pensions to make explicit some risks and conflicts within pension plans that current regulations hide from stakeholders’ view. These reforms would have to promote target-benefit plans in order to clarify the “pension deal” for plan members; support joint sponsor and member governance of pension plans; and enable small pension plans to use larger plans’ expertise and cost structure. He also suggests holding a royal commission on employer-based pensions to foster public discussion of these plans’ structure and value among regulators, sponsors, members and retirees.

  • The 2012 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act by Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra

    The 2012 Annotated Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act

    Lloyd W. Houlden, Geoffrey B. Morawetz, and Janis P. Sarra

  • Reconciling Domestic Superior Courts with the ECHR and the ECtHR: A Comparative Perspective (Submission to the Commission on a Bill of Rights) by Liora Lazarus

    Reconciling Domestic Superior Courts with the ECHR and the ECtHR: A Comparative Perspective (Submission to the Commission on a Bill of Rights)

    Liora Lazarus

  • Comparative Hate Speech Law: Memorandum (Research Prepared for the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa) by Liora Lazarus and et al.

    Comparative Hate Speech Law: Memorandum (Research Prepared for the Legal Resources Centre, South Africa)

    Liora Lazarus and et al.

  • Supplementary Comparative Research on the Use of Secret Evidence in the United States (Research Paper Prepared for the Joint Committee on Human Rights) by Liora Lazarus and et al.

    Supplementary Comparative Research on the Use of Secret Evidence in the United States (Research Paper Prepared for the Joint Committee on Human Rights)

    Liora Lazarus and et al.

  • The Evolution of Fundamental Rights Charters and Case Law: A Comparison of the United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union Systems of Human Rights Protection by Liora Lazarus and et al.

    The Evolution of Fundamental Rights Charters and Case Law: A Comparison of the United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union Systems of Human Rights Protection

    Liora Lazarus and et al.

    This report examines the human rights protection systems of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union. It explores the substantive rights, protection mechanisms, modes of engagement within, and the interactions between each system. The report also outlines the protection of minority rights, and the political processes through which human rights and institutions evolve and interact. A series of recommendations are made on how to advance the EU human rights system.

    [From The Evolution of Fundamental Rights Charters and Case Law - A Comparison of the United Nations, Council of Europe and European Union Systems of Human Rights Protection | Think Tank | European Parliament]

  • The Use of Secret Evidence in Judicial Proceedings: A Comparative Survey (Research Paper Prepared for the Joint Committee on Human Rights) by Liora Lazarus and et al.

    The Use of Secret Evidence in Judicial Proceedings: A Comparative Survey (Research Paper Prepared for the Joint Committee on Human Rights)

    Liora Lazarus and et al.

  • Migrant Smuggling: Canada's Response to a Global Criminal Enterprise: With an Assessment of the Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act (Bill C-4) by Benjamin Perrin

    Migrant Smuggling: Canada's Response to a Global Criminal Enterprise: With an Assessment of the Preventing Human Smugglers from Abusing Canada's Immigration System Act (Bill C-4)

    Benjamin Perrin

  • Written Submission on the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10 - The Safe Streets and Communities Act): Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (October 13, 2011) by Benjamin Perrin

    Written Submission on the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10 - The Safe Streets and Communities Act): Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (October 13, 2011)

    Benjamin Perrin

  • Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery: Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity by Pitman B. Potter

    Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery: Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity

    Pitman B. Potter

    This book examines the Chinese government’s policies and practices for relations with the Inner Periphery areas of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan focusing on themes of political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development. China’s history may be seen as one of managing the geographic periphery surrounding China proper. Successive imperial, republican, and communist governments have struggled to maintain sovereignty over the regions surrounding the great river valleys of China.

    The importance of the periphery is no less real today, concerns over national security, access to natural resources, and long-held concerns about relations between Han and other ethnic groups continue to dominate Chinese law, policy and practice regarding governance in the Inner Periphery regions of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, and Tibet. In the Outer Periphery, Beijing sees engagement with the outside world (particularly the West) as inextricably tied to Chinese sovereignty over former foreign colonies of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

    Using the case study of national integration to indicate how policies are articulated and implemented through law and political-legal institutions, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of the peripheral regions. It will also appeal to academic and policy communities interested in legal reform in China

    [Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery: Selective Adaptation a]

  • Issues in Canada-China Relations by Pitman B. Potter and Thomas Adams

    Issues in Canada-China Relations

    Pitman B. Potter and Thomas Adams

 

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