McGill Law Journal articles from August 2001

McGill Law Journal archives from August 2001

The European Union and the Council of Europe on the issue of human rights: twins separated at birth?
August 1, 2001... Originally an economic union to further market integration, the European Union has gradually and paradoxically become a major force in human rights both within and outside Europe. The author surveys this development, from early inchoate...

Pluralisme conjugal ou hierarchie des sexualites : la reconnaissance juridique des couples homosexuels dans l'Union europeenne.
August 1, 2001... Le regime europeen des droits de l'homme, s'il protege dorenavant l'individu homosexuel contre certaines formes de discrimination, laisse les pays membres reglementer les unions homosexuelles. L'examen des regimes juridiques concernant la...

Marge nationale d'appreciation et internationalisation du droit : reflexions sur la validite formelle d'un droit commun pluraliste.
August 1, 2001... La notion de marge est au coeur des systemes de droit. Mais le propre de l'internationalisation du droit, voire de sa mondialisation, est d'avoir introduit de surcroit, avec la notion de marge > d'appreciation, la lois la reconnaissance de la...

The changing scope of the fundamental principle of equality?
August 1, 2001... The author considers the impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and two recent Directives on the evolution of the "fundamental" right to equality. She outlines the development of the equality principle in the context...

Mobility rights in the European Union and Canada.
August 1, 2001... The authors use mobility rights within Canada and the European Union to illustrate the idea that a federation is always a work in progress. Both Canada and the EU have been concerned with personal mobility since inception. In Canada mobility...

L'integration, les systemes juridiques et la formation juridique.
August 1, 2001... L'accroissement des echanges internationaux sur les plans commercial, social et culturel ne saurait rester sans consequences sur le droit et son enseignement, en particulier dans le contexte de l'integration europeenne, qui amine les systemes...

Traffic problems at the intersection of parliamentary procedure and constitutional law.
August 1, 2001... This article addresses the potential for conflict between courts and parliamentary bodies (including legislatures) in making determinations as to the validity of legislation on the basis of parliamentary procedure. The decision of the Supreme...

Electoral justice for aboriginal people in Canada.
August 1, 2001... This article argues that legislative action is required to redress the chronic under-representation of Aboriginal people in Parliament. After drawing on the existing scholarship and attempts in the United States and New Zealand to modify...

From Sisyphus's dilemma to Sisyphus's duty? A meditation on the regulation of hate propaganda in relation to hate crimes and genocide.
August 1, 2001... The author examines central legal and philosophical issues pertaining to the regulation of hate speech. In particular, he evaluates the competing perspectives of the "causationist" approach, which requires a direct causal link between the...

Negotiating an institution for the twenty-first century: multilateral diplomacy and the international criminal court.
August 1, 2001... The authors review the decades of discussion and years of negotiation that led to the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. By placing the creation of the International Criminal Court in its historical context,...

Sentencing scholarship and sentencing reform in Canada.
August 1, 2001... A. Manson, The Law of Sentencing. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2001. Pp. 412. [Softcover $39.95 (Cdn.)]. A. Manson, P. Healy & G. Trotter, Sentencing and Penal Policy in Canada: Cases, Materials, and Commentary. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2000. Pp....

Colour-Coded: a Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950.(Book Review)
August 1, 2001... Constance Backhouse, Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. Pp. 432. Until recently Canadian society has been perceived as raceless. This myth originates in the belief that...

L'Afrique, le GATT et l'OMC. Entre territoires douaniers et regions commerciales.(Book Review)
August 1, 2001... Jean Maurice Djossou, L'Afrique, le GATT et l'OMC. Entre territoires douaniers et regions commerciales, Sainte-Foy et Paris, Presses de l'Universite Laval et L'Harmattan, 2000, xviii, 263 pp. Les pays parmi les plus marginalises de...

Encylopedia of Real Estate Terms, 2d ed.(Book Review)
August 1, 2001... Damien Abbott, Encylopedia of Real Estate Terms, 2d ed. Washington, D.C.: Delta Alpha, 2000. Pp. xxxviii, 1431. This tome is worth more than 8000 terms (from "a fortiori" to "zoning variance") and some 350 acronyms (from "AAA rating", one...

Restitution in Private International Law.(Book Review)
August 1, 2001... George Panagopoulos, Restitution in Private International Law. Portland, Or.: Hart, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 274. This is a thorough study of restitution in private international law, seen from the perspective of English law, which originally served...

L'administration de la preuve.(Book Review)
August 1, 2001... Leo Ducharme, L'administration de lapreuve, 3e ed., Montreal, Wilson & Lafleur, 2001, 469 pp. avec tables et index. Disons-le d'emblee, cet ouvrage devra figurer comme ses Editions precedentes darts toute bibliotheque personnelle,...