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Petroleum Activities in Disputed Maritime Areas: Guyana, a New Petroleum Frontier
New emerging oil and gas exploration and production frontiers like Guyana need clarity on the legal framework governing oil and gas law exploration and production in disputed maritime territories. The existing literature ... -
The Future of Trade is Inclusive: Canada’s Approach to Globalised Free Trade
(2022-11-03)In response to people feeling left behind from experiencing trade-related gains, Canada has developed “inclusive” trade policies that attempt to redistribute trade- related opportunities to traditionally underrepresented ... -
Towards a Global Environment Trust: Determination of the General Principle of Trust Under International Law and Its Application to the Global Environment
The current international environmental legal framework has been insufficient to avert the ecological crisis of the Anthropocene. Despite some progress in the fields of treaty law and customary law, States generally have ... -
The Taxation of Women in Canada: A Research Report
(Faculty of Law, Queen's University, 1988-09)Adopting a feminist approach to tax law and economic policy, The Taxation of Women in Canada demonstrates that the entire Canadian tax system assumes, reinforces, and contributes to women's poverty and overwork. Despite ... -
Comparative Legal and Regulatory Approaches to Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration
In recent years, third-party funding (TPF) has become one of the topical issues within the global arbitration community. TPF is an arrangement between a party and a funder wherein it is agreed that the funder will cover ... -
Can Securities Regulation Influence Effective Corporate Response to Climate Change in Nigeria? An Analysis of Global Practices and Nigerian Securities Regulation
Climate change and its effects are pervasive and escalating. It poses not only direct environmental risks but also economic and financial risks associated with mitigating and adapting to its effects. Within the corporate ... -
Elementary Teachers’ Cognitive Processes and Metacognitive Strategies during Self-Directed Online Learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-03)This study involves an in-depth examination of Canadian elementary teachers’ cognitive processes and metacognitive strategies they used during a self-directed online learning experience. The virtual revisit think aloud, a ... -
The Role of Financial Intelligence Units in Shaping and Effective International Anti-Money Laundering Law and Policy
This thesis, by taking a comparative approach to study national models of Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) from ten, selected, Western (Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, Luxembourg, United States) and Eastern (post-Soviet) ... -
Tort Law, Crown Liability, and the Rule of Law
In this thesis, I examine the connection between tort litigation against government and the rule of law principle. I argue that tort claims against government have unavoidable rule of law implications. Since all such tort ... -
Religious Refusals: A Distinctive Manifestation of Religious Freedom
My thesis examines whether religious refusals differ from affirmative religious actions. Mainly, my thesis studies the structure and properties of religious refusals and explores whether the Supreme Courts of Canada and ... -
The Parochial Kuwaiti Arbitration Regime: A Case Study of the Extension of Arbitration Agreements to Non-Signatories
(2021-03)As embodied in the Kuwaiti government’s recent initiative, the New Kuwait Development Plan 2035, Kuwait’s aspirations to decrease its habitual oil dependency through economic diversification has led the country to undergo ... -
Protection of Human Rights in the International Investment Regime: A Critical Survey with a view into the Iranian Foreign Investment Experience
Considering that the main purpose of attracting foreign investment is the economic development of the host states, as well as profit of the foreign investors, this purpose cannot be achieved, at least not over the long ... -
Schrödinger’s Gap: Autonomous Weapons Systems and Legal Liability
This thesis examines issues surrounding the development and deployment of autonomous weapons systems (hereafter “AWS”) from two perspectives: a legal perspective (particularly in the context of international legal frameworks, ... -
Dividing the Arctic: Sovereign Rights on Extended Continental Shelves in The High North
This thesis examines the delimitation of the continental shelves beyond 200 nautical miles (M) in the Arctic Ocean. It analyzes the regimes of the continental shelf and the Arctic, as well as the rules applicable to the ... -
The institutional estrangement between international trade and human rights: are they siblings or distant relatives?
This research takes an historical-critical approach to examine the emergence and evolution of the international trade and international human rights regimes after the Second World War, with the purpose of untangling the ... -
Global Civil Procedure
(2021)A “global” civil procedure has emerged and found its way into debates over procedural reform in both international and domestic arenas. Global civil procedure includes the procedural rules, practices, and social ... -
Ontario's Pandemic Procedure
(2021)This article explores the relationship between procedural changes made as a result of the pandemic and pre-existing trends in global civil procedure. Part I explains some of the core similarities and differences between ... -
Access Copyright and the Proposed Model Copyright Licence Agreement: A Shakespearean Tragedy
(Carswell, 2012-11-01)Copyright law amended in Canada -- users' rights to deal fairly with works for the purposes of research and private study -- whether teachers could make photocopies for distribution to students -- Proposed Model Licence ... -
Interrogating International Human Rights Law on the Rights of Free Speech and Privacy in the Digital Age: Reconceptualizations, Reconfigurations, (Un)reasonable Limits.
This dissertation offers a legal, doctrinal analysis of how deficient some critical aspects of the interpretation of the fundamental human rights of free speech and privacy in international law are, in the face of increasingly ... -
“Adultery” in Canadian Family Law: A Zombie Category?
The focus of this thesis is upon the construction of “adultery” within Canadian divorce law. I argue that this legal construct is exemplary of what social theorist Ulrich Beck described as a “zombie category” - a moribund ...
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