McGill Law Journal articles from November 2001

McGill Law Journal archives from November 2001

The fridge-door statute.(reform the standard form of legislation)
November 1, 2001... The archetypical statute, with its roots in the nineteenth century, remains the standard form of legislation, even though many parliamentary outputs today canner be reconciled with its formal or functional constraints. The author argues that...

E-legislation: law-making in the digital age.
November 1, 2001... This article takes a communications approach to law. The author argues that the formulation, dissemination, and reception--as well as doctrinal notions--of legislation are shaped by the prevailing mode of communication. Three such modes are...

La justification de la legislation comme jugement pratique.
November 1, 2001... L'objectif de ce texte est d'examiner la force de trois conceptions contemporaines de la justification de la legislation concue comme l'expression de jugement pratique. La notion de jugement pratique sous-tend l'idee que la legislation exprime...

The promise of plain language drafting.
November 1, 2001... The purpose of drafting legislative texts in plain language is to enhance democracy and the rule of law by making legislation accessible to the people whose lives it affects. But plain language drafting has some potentially more radical...

The uses and audiences of preambles in legislation.
November 1, 2001... This article documents the increased use of long and substantive preambles in federal legislation from 1985 to 2000. Only nine statures had such preambles in the first rive years of this study, while in the last rive years, twenty-nine statutes...

La zone fictive de l'infra-droit: l'integration des regles administratives dans la categorie des textes reglementaires.
November 1, 2001... Le phenomene des regles administratives (les directives, les politiques, les guides, les manuets) interesse de plus en plus les juges et les specialistes du droit administratif. Aucun des criteres poses par le droit positif ne peut servir a...

Comment la legislation est-elle possible? Objectivation et subjectivation du lien social.
November 1, 2001... Comment la legislation est-elle possible? La question peut prendre de multiples significations. Le droit existe et se maintient dans la mesure ou il institutionnalise les rapports sociaux, repondant ainsi aux conditions de la vie individuelle...

Honour bound.(Quebec Civil Code article 597's requirement for children to respect parents)
November 1, 2001... Echoing the language of commandment round in the Decalogue, article 597 of the Civil Code of Quebec provides that every child owes respect to his or her mother and father. Notwithstanding its expression in legislative form, most experts think...

Cooperative Sovereignty: From Independence to Interdependence in the Structure of International Environmental Law.(Book Review)
November 1, 2001... Franz Xaver Perrez, Cooperative Sovereignty: From Independence to Interdependence in the Structure of International Environmental Law. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2000. Pp. 395. Cooperative Sovereignty is an ambitious work that...

Xenotransplantation : le brevet sur l'animal.(Book Review)
November 1, 2001... Alexandra Obadia, Xenotransplantation : le brevet sur l'animal, Sainte-Foy (Qc), Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, 2001. Pp. xii, 126. Ce recent ouvrage fait son apparition dans un contexte en pleine evolution ou la question de la...

La personne, la famille et le droit, 1968-1998: trois decennies de mutations en occident.(Book Review)
November 1, 2001... Marie-Therese Meulders-Klein, La personne, la famille et le droit, 1968-1998 : trois decennies de mutations en occident, Bruxelles/Paris, Bruylant/Librairie generale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1999. Pp. xvi, 589. Ce livre consiste en...