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Osgoode Hall Law School of York University

2006

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Canada's Supreme Court And Its National Health Insurance Program: Evaluating The Landmark Chaoulli Decision From A Comparative Perspective, Theodore R. Marmor Apr 2006

Canada's Supreme Court And Its National Health Insurance Program: Evaluating The Landmark Chaoulli Decision From A Comparative Perspective, Theodore R. Marmor

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This article proceeds in three modes. The first briefly characterizes my reactions to the Chaoulli decision in June 2005 as a policy analyst and one of the experts in the Quebec trial testifying on behalf of Canada's Attorney General. The second part discusses some of the commentaries of others in connection with this decision. The third-and the main section-deals with the Court majority's use of international evidence in arriving at its decision and argues that the approach taken violated almost every scholarly standard for competent, cross-national policy analysis.


Poverty, Agency And Resistance In The Future Of International Law: An African Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor Jan 2006

Poverty, Agency And Resistance In The Future Of International Law: An African Perspective, Obiora Chinedu Okafor

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This article enquires into the likely posture of future international law with respect to African peoples. It does so by focusing on three of the most important issues that have defined, and are likely to continue to define, international law’s engagement with Africans. These are: the grinding poverty in which most Africans live, the question of agency in their historical search for dignity, and the extent to which these African peoples can effectively resist externally imposed frameworks and measures that have negative effects on their social, economic and political experience. International law’s future posture in these respects is considered through …