Includes PhD dissertations and LL.M. theses completed by students in the graduate programs at the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2015

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Hows, whys and but-fors : theorizing, comparing and solution finding within the principle of material contribution to risk in the law of negligence, Lachlan Caunt

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Dealing with the dragon : what safeguards are required to make an extradition treaty between Canada and the People's Republic of China conform to Canadian extradition law?, John M.L. Gibb-Carsley

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Towards a higher standard for international disability rights and social justice : an Islamic perspective on the universal right to social welfare for people with special challenges, Husam Eddin Hawa

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Adaptive infrastructure regulation : designing for climate change, Andrew Higgins

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An imperial beast of different species or international justice? : universal jurisdiction and the African Union’s opposition, Eberechi Ifeonu

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Interwoven legal traditions. The extent to which state based decision makers are engaging with indigenous legal traditions and the extent to which this is feasible : a celebration of an exceptional outcome, Natalie Johnston

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Pluralist moral theory in the philosophy of property and the legal form of the condominium, Jason Leslie

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Discretionary decision-making by trustees in Canada’s personal bankruptcy system, Anna Jane Samis Lund

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China toward Constitutionalism? Institutional development under the Socialist Rule of Law system, Jiajun Luo

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Claims, histories, meanings : indigeneity and legal pluralism in India, Pooja Parmar

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A focus on the risk of harm : applying a risk-centered purposive approach to the interpretation of "personal information" under Canadian data protection laws, Magdalena A. Wojda

Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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Mexican refugee claimants : cheating the system?, Andrés Abogado

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Revisions to Canada's sentencing regime as a remedy to the over-incarceration of persons with mental disabilities, Moira Aikenhead

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Subtle expressions of gender inequality : exploring the application of aggravating and mitigating factors in sentencing decisions for sexual assault offences, Tamera Ashley Margaret Burnett

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The jurisdiction to regulate aquaculture in Canada, Alexander Ross Clarkson

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Dialogic regulation : the talking cure for corporations, Michael Cody

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Majority rule and minority protection in private corporations : a comparative appraisal of the problems and remedies under the Canadian and Nigerian jurisdictions, Charles Onyehinim Eluromma

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Tax information exchange and the erosion of taxpayer privacy rights, Robert Stephen Hawkshaw

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Legal imperialism and the democratisation of law: towards an African feminist jurisprudence on the development of land law and rights in Nigeria 1861-2011., Adetoun Olabisi Ilumoka

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Understanding and resolving cultural heritage repatriation disputes between indigenous peoples and museums, Stacey Rae Jessiman

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Guardianship law : doctrine, theory, objective, Michael Leonard Johnson

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Transnational law and borders in the Korean peninsula and beyond, Jeewon Min

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Corporate legal aspects of impact investments in British Columbia, Michael Peter Mosimann

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Modified universalism for cross-border insolvencies : does it work in practice?, Marcela Ouatu

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Basel committee on banking supervision : a post-crisis analysis of governance and accountability, Maziar Peihani

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Indigenous struggles for land rights in Canada, Japan and Mexico : Delgamuukw, Nibutani Dam and Zirahuén, Naayeli Esperanza Ramirez-Espinosa

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South Africa's new bilateral investment treaty policy : a reasonable response to a flawed regime?, Tania Steenkamp

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Succumbing to the siren song : rape myths in sexual offender sentencing in B.C., Elizabeth Ann Welch

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Considering consideration : a critical and comparative analysis of the doctrine of consideration in the Anglo-Canadian common law, Charlotte Mary Boardman

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Judicial compensation in Canada : an examination of the judicial compensation experience in selected Canadian jurisdictions 1990-2010, Graeme Bowbrick

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"Common sense" and legal judgment : community knowledge, political power and rhetorical practice, Patricia Cochran

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Has the international human rights paradigm failed lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people? If so, what can be done to fix it?, Aleksandra Djordjevic

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Stories from the front : realities of the over-incarceration of Aboriginal women in Canada, Jennifer Dyck

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The concept of deference in substantive review of administrative decisions in four common law countries, Alan Freckelton

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Extinguishment by extirpation : the Nuxalk eulachon crisis, Andrea Hilland

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The jurisdiction of difference : groups and law, Asha Pearl Kaushal

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Catching the fox : restricting the right to pre-trial silence in Canada, Ian Alan Mackenzie

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Law's permissions, law's exclusions : precarious migration status in Canada, Sarah Grayce Marsden

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The US federal courts' deliberate approach : shaping their role in climate reform through procedural tools, Morgan McDonald

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Discretionary administrative decisions and the Charter of Rights : Doré and determining the "proportionate" balance, Sarah R. H. Parker

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Proper proportions of law : justifying democratic credentials of proportionality analysis in constitutional adjudication, Iryna Ponomarenko

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Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental governance in Canada : the role of law and comprehensive agreements in facilitating incorporation, Matthew Stephen Pudovskis

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Reconciling rhetoric and reality : putting "development" at the centre of the game, Irfan Reayat

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"A unique approach to the liability of P2P intermediaries" : a comparative study of copyright liability of providers of peer-to-peer file sharing services in Canada and Sweden, Annika Svanberg

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The evolution of credit bidding : its recent journey and logical next step, Jennifer Lee Wriley

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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The legal regime of international straits : a case study of the legal and political implications for the Strait of Hormuz, Abdullah Al Sheddi

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Minority shareholder's remedies in corporate law, Okay Hyacinth Anyadiegwu

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Transcending sovereignty : locating Indigenous peoples in transboundary water law, Jennifer Lynne Archer

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Chinese socialism : an iterative perspective of the legal framework of market economies of the People's Republic of China, Matthew Kingcheong Au

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Cruel and unusual punishment : prisoners' rights in the 1990's, John Ramsay Bowman

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Principles, process, responsibility : exploring ethics as a meta-regulatory framework for evolving governance discourse, Alison Louise Dempsey

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Imagined fears : from mass terror to authoritarian legality, and the future of liberal reform, Robert Diab

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Patterns of international financial regulation : a case study of sovereign wealth funds, Raul Pinheiro Donegá

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International human trafficking in Canada : why so few prosecutions?, John A. Ferguson

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An ounce of prevention : the legal and business case for the implementation of workplace wellness programs, Brian L. Fixter

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Achieving synergy between international trade and human rights : a proposal for mainstreaming human rights in the WTO, Sotonye Godwin- A Hart

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'Normalising' what? Aboriginal land tenure reform in the Northern Territory of Australia, Kirsty Howey

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Listening to what the criminal justice system hears and the stories it tells : judicial sentencing discourses about the victimization and criminalization of Aboriginal women, Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick

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Self-determination for women, Cliona Janet Marie Kimber

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Correlation between break fee and asset purchase option regulation in Canada and its empirical effects, Zelius Kleefstra

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Beyond rule-based legal expert systems : using frames and case-based reasoning to analyze the tort of malicious prosecution, Andrzej Kowalski

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At law's border : unsettling refugee resettlement, Shauna Erin Labman

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Disasters in the offshore : are regulators learning their lessons?, Marguerite Helen La'Cassie

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The availability of gain-based damages for breach of contract, Krishneel Maharaj

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Litigating extraterritorial corporate crimes in Canadian courts, Chilenye Nwapi

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Variable compensation in British Columbia, Lorna A. Pawluk

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Exploring a law firm business model to improve access to justice and decrease lawyer dissatisfaction, Andrew Pilliar

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Solidarity forever, Canadians never : SAWP workers in Canada, Robert Marc Russo

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Liberalization of foreign direct investment : Europe 1992 and the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, Monika Sievers

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Mind the gap : exposing the protection gaps in international law for environmentally displaced citizens of small island states, Kerstin Walter

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"To the advantage of all concerned" : practical and principle-based arguments for a revised remedy regime for unfair dismissal in Australia, David Woolias

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Fiduciaries in a commercial context, David Malcolm Wright

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Feminism, psychoanalysis and postmodernism : bridging the discourses, Yasmeen Zafar

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Can we end the death penalty? The role of NGOs in the world-wide campaign, William Graham Allen

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The capital gains taxation of corporations and shareholders in the United Kingdom and Canada, Nicholas Charles Attewell

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Legislating British Columbia : a history of B. C. land law, 1858-1978, Michael Begg

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Some aspects of the legal control of takeover bids : a comparative study of English and British Columbia law, James Harry Bennett

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Sexual offences in Canada, Narain G. Bhavnani

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Canadian taxation of business and investment income of non-residents, Rocco Bonzanigo

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The problems of micro-states in international law, Charng-ven Chen

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Chinatown geographies and the politics of race, space and the law, Catherine W. Chow

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Allocation of rights over offshore oil and gas resources : a study of the legal systems in force in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, Michael Crommelin

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Prisoners of democracy : the Lil'wat's right to an impartial tribunal ; an analysis of the Lillooet Lake roadblock case, Lynda Jean Crompton

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Restorative justice, intersectionality theory and domestic violence : epistemic problems in indigenous settings, Bruno Osmar Vergini de Freitas

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Lawyers' experiences of collaborative family law, Brett Raymond Degoldi

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Terrorism and the administration of justice in Canada, Robert Diab

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The jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice : customary international law; state sovereignty; and the domestic jurisdiction, H.K. Dogra

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Rethinking maritime delimitation and promoting joint development of petroleum: the Nigeria-Sao-Tome and Principe joint development model, Nicholas Chinedu Eze

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Fact finding and the World Court, William F. Foster

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"Speak the speech, I pray you" : theatre, law and rights - a study, Tom Garbett

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Health governance, medical pluralism and the politics of integration : a legal theory for increasing access to healthcare, Irehobhude Otibhor Iyioha

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Arbitration in WTO disputes : the forgotten alternative, David William Jacyk

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The legal environment of corporate income taxation for FDI in China : policy, changes, risks, Zhe Jin

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Reconstituting the role of law in development-induced displacement and resettlement : lessons from Uganda's Bujagali hydroelectric project, Jalia Kangave

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A general perspective of Canadian constitutional interpretation as illustrated by the criminal law power, William Harwood Knight

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The invisibles : an examination of refugee resettlement, Shauna Labman

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Age and ageism in the sentencing of older adults, Helene Love

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Pollution control law in British Columbia : the administrative approach, Alastair Richard Lucas

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Changed utterly? continuity and change in the regulation of Irish identities, Ciaran McNamee

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Administrative detentions : balancing civil rights and national security, Adiel Meir