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Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles Baron Aug 2013

Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

Also appears in The Resolution of Family Conflict: Comparative Legal Perspectives, edited by John M. Eekelaar and Sanford N. Katz, 575-610. Toronto: Butterworths, 1984.


'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron Aug 2013

'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron Mar 1983

'If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?': Of Shylock, Fetuses, And The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

No abstract provided.


The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron Dec 1982

The Concept Of Person In The Law, Charles Baron

Charles H. Baron

The focus of the abortion debate in the United States tends to be on whether and at what stage a fetus is a person. I believe this tendency has been unfortunate and counterproductive. Instead of advancing dialogue between opposing sides, such a focus seems to have stunted it, leaving advocates in the sort of “I did not!” – “You did too!” impasse we remember from childhood. Also reminiscent of that childhood scene has been the vain attempt to break the impasse by appeal to a higher authority. Thus, the pro-choice forces hoped they had proved the pro-life forces “wrong” by …


The Independence Of Canada, Brian Slattery Dec 1982

The Independence Of Canada, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

No abstract provided.


Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms - Override Clauses Under Section 33 - Whether Subject To Judicial Review Under Section 1, Brian Slattery Dec 1982

Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms - Override Clauses Under Section 33 - Whether Subject To Judicial Review Under Section 1, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

No abstract provided.


Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles H. Baron Dec 1982

Medicine And Human Rights: Emerging Substantive Standards And Procedural Protections For Medical Decision-Making Within The American Family, Charles H. Baron

Charles H. Baron

Also appears in The Resolution of Family Conflict: Comparative Legal Perspectives, edited by John M. Eekelaar and Sanford N. Katz, 575-610. Toronto: Butterworths, 1984.


The Independence Of Canada, Brian Slattery Dec 1982

The Independence Of Canada, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

Canada is in independent state and has been for many years. Its sovereign status has long been acknowledged by the international community and the courts. So the constitutional manoeuvres that culminated in the enactment of the Constitution Act, 1982, by the British Parliament, must strike any observer as a somewhat puzzling series of events. How can we explain the fact that a sovereign state should consider itself bound to employ the legislature of another sovereign state to secure for itself a new constitution? Underlying this question are a number of fundamental issues going to the foundations of the Canadian legal …