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When Insider Trading and Market Manipulation Cross Jurisdictions. What Are the Challenges For Securities Regulators and How Can They Best Preserve the Integrity of Markets?
(2016-09-20)
Over the last few decades world securities markets have become significantly more sophisticated in terms of how securities are traded as well as the variety of securities traded. My hypothesis is that the ability of ...
Rethinking the Law of Interrogations and Confessions in Canada
(2016-09-20)
This thesis is a discussion about the inadequacy of the Canadian confessions rule in light of what modern forensic psychology reveals about the human mind, and the propensity of legally-sanctioned interrogation tactics to ...
The Failure of the Canadian Human Rights Regime to Provide Remedies for Indigenous Peoples: Enough Time Has Passed
(2016-09-20)
In 2008, Canada amended the Canadian Human Rights Act to remove s.67, which in essence precluded Indigenous Peoples from bringing complaints as against Canada and Band governments. Since the amendment took effect in 2010, ...
Governing Water in Canada: The Legislative Experiments in New Governance
(2016-09-20)
Governing water in Canada is in transition. Since 2000, episodes of drought, unsafe drinking water, and polluted watersheds have affected local and First Nations communities. In reaction to these crises, provincial regulators ...
False Universalism of Global Governance Theories: Global Constitutionalism, Global Administrative Law, International Criminal Institutions and the Global South
(2016-09-20)
Why are theories of global governance unsatisfactory? Why are theories of global governance unable to integrate the lived realities of the people of the global South? International law and its institutions are growing at ...
The Rule of Liberal Legalism: The Challenge of the Normativities of Multiple Modernities and Religious Diversity
(2016-09-20)
In Canada profound diversification of multiple moral, political and normative commitments of a multiplicity of communities is unstoppable. Its historically liberalized, modernized and secularized law dominates principles ...
Having a Say: Democracy, Access to Justice and Self-Represented Litigants
(2016-09-20)
Access to Justice is one of the most contested issues on the law-and-society agenda. There is a long-standing exchange over its meaning, objectives, and success. Beneath that engagement, there is a deeper and more basic ...
Professional Discretion and the Law: Impact of Actuaries on the Underfunding and Decline of Private Sector Single Employer Defined Benefit Pensions in Canada. How Many "Post Nortel Pension Fiascos are Brewing in Canada?
(2016-09-20)
Considering that private sector single employer defined benefit pension plans must be fully funded by law, the legal issue emanating from their systemic underfunding is whether or not actuaries have been using their ...
Confronting (In) Security: Forging Legitimate Approaches to Security and Exclusion in Migration Law
(2016-09-20)
Perceived connections between security concerns and migration are a central preoccupation of our time. This dissertation explores how the preoccupation has played out in the Canadian context and asserts that a basic and ...
Lets Talk About Sexual Assault A Feminist Exploration of the Relationship Between Legal and Experiential Discourses
(2016-09-20)
This thesis challenges the tendency within feminist legal thought to imagine a sharp division between law and lived experience, and specifically between feminist methods that engage legal discourse and those that invoke ...