McGill Law Journal articles from June 2005

McGill Law Journal archives from June 2005

How do Canadian administrative law protections measure up to international human rights standards? The case of independence.
June 1, 2005... International human fights law recognizes the right to have one's fights and obligations adjudicated by an independent tribunal--one free from internal collusion and external manipulation. Under Canadian law, by contrast, the fight to tribunal...

The constitutional requirements for the royal morganatic marriage.(United Kingdom, Canada)
June 1, 2005... This article examines the constitutional implications, for Canada and the other members of the Commonwealth, of a morganatic marriage in the British royal family. The Germanic concept of "morganatic marriage" refers to a legal union between a...

Legislative reform in post-conflict zones: jus post bellum and the contemporary occupant's law-making powers.
June 1, 2005... This article distinguishes the traditional concepts of jus ad bellum and jus in bello (law of war and law in war) from the new doctrine of jus post bellum (law of post-war reconstruction). The author examines jus post bellum in light of the...

Private law redistribution, predictability, and liberty.
June 1, 2005... An attempt to promote equality by reformulating private law doctrine often faces the objection that such an attempt encroaches excessively on one's predictability and liberty interests, especially given the alternative, which is to redistribute...

L'exercice de la competence juridictionnelle internationale des tribunaux au Quebec: une crise des valeurs? Commentaire sur Spar Aerospace Itee c. American Mobile Satellite Corp.
June 1, 2005... En 2002, en rendant sa decision dans l'affaire Spar Aerospace Itee c. American Mobile Satellite Corp., la Cour supreme du Canada ratait une occasion d'arrimer les regles de droit international prive canadiennes et quebecoises. Pour rauteure, la...

Conversations, Choices and Chances: The Liberal Law School in the Twenty-First Century.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Anthony Bradney, Conversations, Choices and Chances: The Liberal Law School in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford: Hart, 2003). Pp. xi, 208. Fiona Cownie, Legal Academics: Culture and Identities (Oxford: Hart, 2004). Pp. ix, 227. Law...

Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism.(Book Review)
June 1, 2005... Ran Hirschl, Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004). Pp. 286. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."...