McGill Law Journal articles from November 2005

McGill Law Journal archives from November 2005

Redressing the democratic deficit in treaty law making: (re-)establishing a role for Parliament.
November 1, 2005... Treaties are a significant source of law on a wide range of subjects, but traditionally do not become domestic law without national implementation. Nevertheless, the legal character of treaty rules does place pressure on a state's domestic...

Testamentary conditions in restraint of religion in the twenty-first century: an Anglo-Canadian perspective.
November 1, 2005... The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act 1998 generate interesting questions concerning their application in the private sphere. In this paper, the authors explore how the norms embodied in these...

L'article 3 de la Convention de Vienne et les contrats complexes dans le domaine de l'informatique: une lecture de la jurisprudence pertinente.
November 1, 2005... La Convention des Nations Unies sur les contrats de vente internationale de marchandises a pour but de reglementer objets et mtthodes de vente. Son champ d'application est delimite par son chapitre premier et notamment l'article 3, qtd prtcise...

Duty, causation, and third-party perpetrators: The Bonnie Mooney case.
November 1, 2005... When Bonnie Mooney's ex-partner threatened and chased her, she went to the RCMP for help. After hearing her complaint against Ronald Kruska and reviewing Kruska's lengthy record of violent offences, Constable Andrichuk told Mooney there was...

The consent model of pregnancy: deadlock undiminished.(United Kingdom)
November 1, 2005... In this article, the author examines what is perhaps the most comprehensive attempt so far to discover an alternative to the orthodox "conflict" model of adjudicating maternal/fetal issues: Eileen McDonagh's "consent model" of pregnancy. This...

Comparative contraventions.
November 1, 2005... When the comparatist-at-law offers a critique of a particular legal culture, individuals committed to that culture may seek to repress dissemination of this alternative opinion. The author thus provides a personal narrative of his failed...

Children at War.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Child Soldiers: Legal and Military Challenges in Confronting a Global Phenomenon P.W. Singer, Children at War. New York: Pantheon, 2005. Pp. 288 [Hardcover $35 CAN]. Over the last decade, the existence of child soldiers has been...

Aggressive in Pursuit: The Life of Justice Emmett Hall.(Book Review)
November 1, 2005... Frederick Vaughan, Aggressive in Pursuit: The Life of Justice Emmett Hall (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004). Pp. xv, 285. As Emmett Hall's biographer, Frederick Vaughan is more clear-eyed curator than choreographer of deeds....