McGill Law Journal articles from June 2007

McGill Law Journal archives from June 2007

Presentation de la conference Wainwright 2006.(Quebec)
June 22, 2007... In 1973, in the Maxwell Cohen Moot Court Room, McGill University inaugurated the Wainwright Lecture Series to honour the late Arnold Wainwright, Q.C., generous friend and valued colleague of the Faculty of Law. As the first in a series of...

Le pouvoir juridique.
June 22, 2007... Le droit positif, tel qu'il est presente dans la doctrine et dans la jurisprudence, fait rarement etat du pouvoir juridique. Lorsque apparait le terme > dans sa forme substantive, il n'a pas de portee significative : il n'est qu'une autre...

Hearing the sexual assault complaints of women with mental disabilities: consent, capacity, and mistaken belief.
June 22, 2007... Women with mental disabilities experience high rates of sexual assault. The authors trace the history of the criminal law's treatment of cases involving such acts in order to evaluate whether the substantive law of sexual assault is meeting the...

Competition policy and Canada's new breed of "copyright" law.
June 22, 2007... Open digital networks present a number of challenges for copyright holders. With a few clicks of a mouse, a digital work can be copied perfectly and distributed globally without the copyright holder's knowledge or permission. In response to...

L'arret Thibault et le contrat de rente.
June 22, 2007... La Cour supreme du Canada a rejete, dans l'arret Banque de Nouvelle-Ecosse c. Thibault, la qualification de contrat de rente du contrat entre les parties. En effet, la Cour supreme a declare a l'unanimite que le regime epargne-retraite en...

A legal and epidemiological justification for federal authority in public health emergencies.
June 22, 2007... Federal Canada's authority to control epidemic disease under existing laws is seriously limited--a reality that was demonstrated in unflattering health and economic terms by the SARS epidemic. Yet even Canadians who work in public health or...