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The Role of Judicial Discourse in Distorting the Public Inquiry Image: Is the Inquiry Becoming an Endangered Species?

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dc.contributor.advisorSalter, R. L. Liora
dc.creatorMorokhovets, Diana
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T12:32:28Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T12:32:28Z
dc.date.copyright2016-09-28
dc.date.issued2017-07-27
dc.date.updated2017-07-27T12:32:28Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameLLM - Master of Laws
dc.description.abstractThe goal is to explore the construction of the Public Inquiry image and its persona via judicial decision-making and legal discourses that are utilized to justify the final product of an inquiry. For instance, while the commissioner is generally equipped with extensive coercive and discretionary powers, there is scarcely any research on why these powers are exercised the way that they are and how (or if) the decisions that are made condition the public image of the inquiry and their ultimate impact on the survival of the institution. Specifically, it will be argued that despite the fact that a judge-commissioner is generally imbued with broad discretionary powers and given (in theory) access to flexible, independent and virtually unrestrained process, the discourses utilized around and inside the inquiry construct and reinforce a specific image of the process (and the commissioner), one that upholds the paradigm of the traditional (adversarial/adjudicative) legal culture while endangering the unique nature of the public inquiry and what it originally was designed to achieve.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33411
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPublic policy
dc.subject.keywordsPublic inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsCommissions of inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsInquiry
dc.subject.keywordsArar commission
dc.subject.keywordsLacobucci Inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsPublic policy
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourse analysis
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial discourse
dc.subject.keywordsCommissioner
dc.subject.keywordsJudge
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsLegal discourse
dc.subject.keywordsTruth-seeking
dc.subject.keywordsInvestigative inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsFactual inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsAdvisory inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsTruth
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourse
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial commission
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial inquiry
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy recommendations
dc.subject.keywordsPublic perception
dc.subject.keywordsPublic image
dc.subject.keywordsPublic institution
dc.subject.keywordsAdversarial
dc.subject.keywordsAdjudicative
dc.subject.keywordsDiscretionary powers
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial decision-making
dc.subject.keywordsDiscretion
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial discretion
dc.subject.keywordsDecision-making
dc.subject.keywordsInquisitorial
dc.subject.keywordsLegal models
dc.subject.keywordsLegal culture
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial culture
dc.subject.keywordsAdjudicative culture
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy-making
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial values
dc.subject.keywordsValues
dc.subject.keywordsNorms
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial practices
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourse influence
dc.subject.keywordsDiscourse impact
dc.subject.keywordsInquiry process
dc.subject.keywordsInquiry functions
dc.subject.keywordsInquiry practices
dc.subject.keywordsStory-telling
dc.subject.keywordsNarratives
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial process
dc.subject.keywordsPublic
dc.subject.keywordsPublic functions
dc.subject.keywordsAccountability
dc.subject.keywordsCredibility
dc.subject.keywordsTransparency
dc.subject.keywordsOpenness
dc.subject.keywordsProcedural fairness
dc.subject.keywordsIndividual rights
dc.subject.keywordsIndependence and impartiality
dc.subject.keywordsRole of commissioner
dc.subject.keywordsRole of judge
dc.subject.keywordsJudicial role
dc.subject.keywordsJudge-commissioner
dc.titleThe Role of Judicial Discourse in Distorting the Public Inquiry Image: Is the Inquiry Becoming an Endangered Species?
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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