McGill Law Journal articles from March 2007

McGill Law Journal archives from March 2007

Living up to rules: holding soldiers responsible for abusive conduct and the dilemma of the superior orders defence.
March 22, 2007... Recent world events underscore the importance of the dilemma of the superior orders defence and the question of how to prevent soldiers from undertaking abusive conduct or committing atrocities. This article examines the degree to which holding...

Legal origins: reconciling law & finance and comparative law.
March 22, 2007... Law and finance scholars have increasingly relied upon comparative law in the last few years. The work of these scholars has considered, in empirical terms, the effect that legal rules and their enforcement have on financial development in...

La progression des droits linguistiques au Nouveau-Brunswick dans une perspective historique globale.
March 22, 2007... La situation linguistique du Nouveau-Brunswick est unique dans le contexte canadien. La province est non seulement dotee d'un regime juridique des plus progressistes et des plus ouverts envers sa minorite linguistique francophone, le...

De-immunizing torture: reconciling human rights and state immunity.
March 22, 2007... In May 2005, the United Nations Committee Against Torture expressed "its concern at... the absence of effective measures to provide civil compensation [in Canada] to victims of torture in all cases." The committee was responding to a ruling of...

Case comment on R. v. Kapp: an analytical framework for section 25 of the Charter.
March 22, 2007... There is a significant void in the jurisprudence and literature regarding section 25 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Consequently, there is no settled interpretation of either when it is triggered or the specific analytical...

Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation: Confrontations et mutations.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Marie-Ange Moreau, Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation: Confrontations et mutations (Paris: Dalloz, 2006). Pp. xi, 461. Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation by Marie-Ange Moreau offers nuanced analysis of the...

Inside and Outside Canadian Administrative Law: Essays in Honour of David Mullan.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... G. Huscroft & M. Taggart, eds., Inside and Outside Canadian Administrative Law: Essays in Honour of David Mullan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006). Pp. xii, 495. The Liber Amicorum (Melanges, Festschrift, Essays in honour of...)...