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Regulating The Corporation From Within And Without: Corporate Governance And Workers’ Interests, Vanisha Hemwatie Sukdeo
Regulating The Corporation From Within And Without: Corporate Governance And Workers’ Interests, Vanisha Hemwatie Sukdeo
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation critically explores how the increased legal regulation and governance of corporations can be used to help improve the interests of workers in global supply chains. Chapter one outlines the introduction and provides background information. Chapter two is the literature review. Chapter three examines the expansion of fiduciary duties and changes to corporate governance, including Benefit Corporations, and how expanded fiduciary duties can be used to increase the interests1 of workers. Chapter four contains a case study of the Rana Plaza disaster to demonstrate how governance models can be used to help increase working conditions in Bangladesh and other …
The Old People Are The Song, And We Are Their Echo: Resurgence Of W̱ Sáneć Law And Legal Theory, Robert Justin Clifford
The Old People Are The Song, And We Are Their Echo: Resurgence Of W̱ Sáneć Law And Legal Theory, Robert Justin Clifford
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation attends to pressing questions of strategy and tactics in relation to Indigenous law revitalization in the context of the climate crisis. Grounded in my own W̱SÁNEĆ legal order, I provide an accounting of the context in which the resurgence of W̱SÁNEĆ law is occurring, and clarity regarding what we hope to accomplish with the revitalization of W̱SÁNEĆ (and more broadly, Indigenous) law, both locally and in response to global climate crisis. Doing so prompts questioning of the very foundations of Canadian constitutionalism, and indeed, our most basic ideologies and conceptualizations of our place and relationships within the world. …
A Critical Approach To The Regulation Of A Public Corporation's Purchase Of Its Own Shares On The Open Market: Lessons From The Transatlantic Comparison, Alper Cohaz
PhD Dissertations
Open market repurchases (OMRs)—by far the most common form of share repurchases—have reached record levels following the dramatic increase in number since the adoption of the safe harbor rule in the US. This dramatic increase has been largely attributed to purported benefits of OMRs that matter especially within the Anglo-American economic and corporate model. However, these benefits fail to fully explain such increase. This failure suggests that illegitimate purposes, which could easily be concealed beneath purported benefits, might have also contributed to the increase in the number of OMRs and resulted in their excessive use. This suggestion is supported by …
British Empire, Land Tenure And The Search For An Ideal Proprietor: 1868-1875, Preetmohinder Singh Aulakh
British Empire, Land Tenure And The Search For An Ideal Proprietor: 1868-1875, Preetmohinder Singh Aulakh
PhD Dissertations
Between 1868 and 1875, several land tenure laws (Punjab Tenancy Act of 1868; Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act of 1870; and Prince Edward Island Tenants Compensation Act, 1872 and Land Purchase Act, 1875) were enacted across the British Empire. These laws established some form of security of tenure for the actual cultivators of land by recognizing co-proprietorship of tenants and landlords and/or by transferring proprietorship from landlords to tenants. This study examines how proponents of the rights of cultivators overcame long-standing resistance to any encroachment of landlords property rights in these socio-politically diverse and geographically dispersed colonies. Comparative analyses of …
Patents And Plants: Rethinking The Role Of International Law In Relation To The Appropriation Of Traditional Knowledge Of The Uses Of Plants (Tkup), Ikechi Mgbeoji
PhD Dissertations
Legal control and ownership of plants and traditional knowledge of the uses of plants (TKUP) is often a vexed issue, particularly at the international level because of the conflicting interests of states or groups of states in the matter. The most widely used form of juridical control of plants and TKUP is the patent system which originated in Europe. This thesis rethinks the role of international law and legal concepts, the major patent systems of the world and international agricultural research institutions as they affect legal ownership and control of plants and TKUP. The analysis is cast in various contexts …
Judicial Depictions Of Responsibility And Risk: The Erasure Of State Accountability In Canadian Sentencing Judgments Involving Indigenous People, Sarah Jane Nussbaum
Judicial Depictions Of Responsibility And Risk: The Erasure Of State Accountability In Canadian Sentencing Judgments Involving Indigenous People, Sarah Jane Nussbaum
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation is set within the context of Canadas mass imprisonment of Indigenous people and centres on a critical evaluation of reported sentencing judgments. In particular, the dissertation examines some of the ways in which sentencing judges both draw attention to, and obscure, state accountability. The dissertation demonstrates that sentencing judges erase the role of the state in the criminalization of Indigenous people and in the construction of Indigenous people as risky. The result is that sentencing judgments rationalize and support the re-entrenchment, rather than the redressing, of the states oppression of Indigenous people. The dissertation is theoretical and descriptive, …
The Norm Life Cycle Theory And The Role Of Insol International In Shaping The Uncitral Model Law On Cross-Border Insolvency, Anthony Ikemefuna Idigbe
The Norm Life Cycle Theory And The Role Of Insol International In Shaping The Uncitral Model Law On Cross-Border Insolvency, Anthony Ikemefuna Idigbe
PhD Dissertations
The involvement of non-state entities in global public norm evolution has been the subject of many studies, especially in international human rights law and policy. This study explains the role of a non-state entity, INSOL International, in shaping the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1997 using the life cycle approach developed in the human rights and policy context. The study utilized a triangulation of doctrinal, empirical and legal history data to determine whether the norm life cycle theory could explain the role of INSOL in shaping the Model Law. The study found …
Disabusing The Tax Aid Narrative: What Inter-National Tax Equity Really Means For "Poor" Countries And How To (Re)Frame It, Okanga Ogbu Okanga
Disabusing The Tax Aid Narrative: What Inter-National Tax Equity Really Means For "Poor" Countries And How To (Re)Frame It, Okanga Ogbu Okanga
PhD Dissertations
International tax regimes (e.g., the “double taxation regime”) are created by states with competing tax jurisdiction to coordinate their tax rules and, specifically, to address common efficiency problems like international double taxation. In developing such regimes, states attempt to balance competing tax policy priorities: efficiency, administrability, and equity. This work engages with equity, as a policy norm of international tax (inter-national tax equity). It is my thesis that the framing/articulation of inter-national tax equity suffers from a narrative problem that, perhaps, stems from its apparent conceptual unclarity and multifarious usage. This narrative problem is most evident in the articulation of …
Voices From Below—Africa’S Contribution To The Development Of The Norm Of Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights, Akinwumi Olawuyi Ogunranti
Voices From Below—Africa’S Contribution To The Development Of The Norm Of Corporate Responsibility To Respect Human Rights, Akinwumi Olawuyi Ogunranti
PhD Dissertations
The long conversations about corporate responsibility predominantly take place in forums and conferences in the Global North. Yet, the majority of the human rights abuses and their impacts are felt by peasants, farmers, children, and women in local communities in the Global South who do not have a voice in the institutionalized governance systems that animate global affairs. This thesis answers the question of how norms and human rights institutions in Africa can influence the corporate responsibility to respect (CR2R) norm as embedded in pillar II of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Through the theory …
How Will I Know? An Epistemology Of Lawyering, Emanuel Raul Tucsa
How Will I Know? An Epistemology Of Lawyering, Emanuel Raul Tucsa
PhD Dissertations
What does anyone know after a trial, after a witness gives testimony, or even after seeking the counsel of a lawyer? Hopefully, the answer to these questions has something to do with the truth. Legal systems claim to have truth-seeking functions. Lawyers have specific roles in the procedures by which legal systems seek the truth and these roles are informed by the norms of legal practice. Yet, lawyers' relationship to truth and knowledge remains underexplored in the philosophy of lawyering. I argue that the philosophy of lawyering needs to develop the epistemic branch of inquiry. The epistemic study of the …
Just Greening The Gulf: Sustaining Justice For Migrant Workers, Asma Atique
Just Greening The Gulf: Sustaining Justice For Migrant Workers, Asma Atique
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the relationship between doctrines and rhetoric of sustainable development (SD) and their compatibility with robust notions of migrant justice. I use migrant-workers-built Masdar City, Abu Dhabis "eco-smart city," as an entry point to examine this relationship. Drawing on Amartya Sen, I rely on a critical capabilities-based environmental justice lens that focuses on the full range of opportunities migrants have at home, in their destination country, and anywhere in between. While this lens offers a means-ends distinction and a pluralistic notion of justice, it must be further specified and supplemented by explicit accounts of structural constraints. The focus, …
Measuring Access To Civil Justice: An Empirical Study Of Ontarios Reform Initiatives, Matthew Dylag
Measuring Access To Civil Justice: An Empirical Study Of Ontarios Reform Initiatives, Matthew Dylag
PhD Dissertations
Access to civil justice remains one of the most pressing concerns within the legal community in Canada. Yet, despite over a half century of reform efforts, many people still struggle to resolve their legal difficulties in a timely and cost effective manner. Part of the reason that reform efforts have yet to solve this crisis is that scholarship has only recently begun to investigate possible measures that can evaluate whether programs and initiatives have positively impacted the ability of ordinary Canadians to resolve their legal problems. The primary purpose of this dissertation is to support the development of such measures …
Ongoing Crimes And The Unlikelihood Of Punishment - Syria As A Case Study, Ghuna Bdiwi
Ongoing Crimes And The Unlikelihood Of Punishment - Syria As A Case Study, Ghuna Bdiwi
PhD Dissertations
Taking the war in Syria as a case study, this dissertation proposes an account of criminal accountability that merits the language that is expressed by calls for criminal accountability, even where physical punishment is not possible. Syria is, of course, a society that is in the midst of ongoing conflict one where almost every party on the battlefield is committing atrocity crimes against civilians. In response, and importantly while the conflict continues, the international community, the United Nations, and the Syrian diaspora have made calls for holding war criminals accountable. But, what are values of these calls if there is …
The Potential For A Family Law Tribunal, Patricia Lynn Robinson
The Potential For A Family Law Tribunal, Patricia Lynn Robinson
PhD Dissertations
This thesis considers the potential for tribunal adjudication in family law, particularly for custody and access cases. The central argument is that a paradigm shift away from adversarialism may enable experimentation with a holistic tribunal-based family law settlement system, at least for family law cases in which a best-interests-of-the-child determination is required. It is suggested that within a holistic tribunal settlement system, multi-disciplinary mediators and adjudicators could share decision-making responsibility, nurture tribunal expertise and develop transparent decision-making guidelines, while adjudication could be relegated to a secondary, inquisitorial component. New empirical research on mediation and adjudication processes in selected tribunals is …
Settling The Law: An Empirical Assessment Of Decision-Making And Judicial Review In Canada's Refugee Resettlement System, Pierre-Andre Theriault
Settling The Law: An Empirical Assessment Of Decision-Making And Judicial Review In Canada's Refugee Resettlement System, Pierre-Andre Theriault
PhD Dissertations
In light of rising numbers in the global refugee population, as well as new ideas for reforming the international refugee regime that emphasize refugee containment, there is reason to reaffirm refugee resettlement as a solid mechanism for burden-sharing, and perhaps the only obtainable durable solution for refugees in a protracted refugee situation. Canada has operated a robust refugee resettlement program for decades and is now presenting its private sponsorship of refugees program as a model to the rest of the world. Despite the significance of Canadas resettlement program, both domestically and internationally, few studies have investigated how the program is …
Regional Economic Community Courts And The Advancement Of Environmental Protection And Socio-Economic Justice In Africa: Three Case Studies, Rahina Bukar Zarma
Regional Economic Community Courts And The Advancement Of Environmental Protection And Socio-Economic Justice In Africa: Three Case Studies, Rahina Bukar Zarma
PhD Dissertations
Focusing on three regional economic communities (REC) courts in Africa that nevertheless possess a human rights jurisdiction i.e. the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (the ECOWAS Court), the East African Court of Justice (the EACJ), and the Southern African Development Community Tribunal (the SADC Tribunal) - this dissertation investigates the relationships among the RECs, states, activists and the courts themselves, as producing and framing the specific conditions under which environmental protection and socio-economic justice in the region in Africa are either advanced or stifled. The dissertation discusses the ways in which the mandates and …
Lawyering From Below: Activist Legal Support In Contemporary Canada And The Us, Irina Ceric
Lawyering From Below: Activist Legal Support In Contemporary Canada And The Us, Irina Ceric
PhD Dissertations
A vast literature has considered the proactive use of law as a tool by progressive social movements, but far less attention has been paid to the way activists respond to involuntary engagement with law as a result of repression and criminalization. This dissertation explores the legal support infrastructure of grassroots protest movements in Canada and the US by tracing the evolution of contemporary activist legal support through two periods. The tactic of jail solidarity and an emerging legal collective model are highlighted as the key features of the global justice organizing era (1999-2005) while in the second age of austerity …
Epistemological Justice In Strategic Challenges To Legislation Under Section 7 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, Dana Erin Phillips
Epistemological Justice In Strategic Challenges To Legislation Under Section 7 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, Dana Erin Phillips
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation responds to two recent developments in the landscape of Canadian constitutional litigation. First, the advent of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has invited a wave of strategic constitutional challenges directed at systemic social reform, including many cases aligned with progressive social justice goals. Second, the focus of Charter litigation has shifted from legal interpretation and argument to the consideration of extensive evidence pertaining to social and legislative facts. The recent successes of a number of strategic Charter challenges to legislation brought on behalf of marginalized communities and involving voluminous evidentiary records suggests that the above developments …
Refugee Camps: In Search Of The Locus Of The Accountability Of The United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees (Unhcr) Under International Law, Zachary Lomo
PhD Dissertations
In this dissertation, I investigate the question how, and to what extent, can the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) be held accountable, under international law, for its contribution to the harms to the environment and lives of refugees resulting from refugee encampment in refugee camps that it helps create, fund, and manage? Using data from primary and secondary sources and borrowing from certain theoretical paradigms and schools of thought, I theorise about the policy-context; the decision-making processes that produce refugee encampment; the locus of accountability for the injurious consequences of refugee encampment in refugee-hosting states …
The Regulation Of Paralegals In Ontario: Increased Access To Justice?, Lisa Danielle Trabucco
The Regulation Of Paralegals In Ontario: Increased Access To Justice?, Lisa Danielle Trabucco
PhD Dissertations
The legal profession throughout most of Canada enjoys the privilege of self-regulation and a (purported) monopoly over legal practice. In Ontario, the Law Society must regulate so as to facilitate access to justice and protect the public interest. Critics argue that self-regulation is anti-competitive it allows the profession to control the market for legal services, increasing the cost of services and restricting access to them and serves professional interests over the public interest. The Ontario government introduced paralegal regulation to enhance access to justice. Regulation would increase consumer choice and the competence and affordability of non-lawyer legal service providers. The …
Towards Development Justice: Re-Visiting The Accountability Of The World Bank And The Imf From A Right To Development Perspective, Maxwel Owuor Miyawa
Towards Development Justice: Re-Visiting The Accountability Of The World Bank And The Imf From A Right To Development Perspective, Maxwel Owuor Miyawa
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation investigates how development justice can be realized through an international accountability praxis that is grounded on the core principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development, one that recognizes the imperative of direct and distinct accountability of the World Bank and the IMF for their development practices. Empirically, amid the intensification of human rights deprivations and mounting development injustices in the Global South, the dominant development praxis has been typified by the marked absence of direct and distinct accountability of international financial institutions. The normative frameworks of international accountability in the realm of development are …
The Transnational Mining Justice Social Movement: Indigenous Right To Consultation & Right To Remedy Law Reform Activism In Canada And Latin America From 1999-2019, Charis Kamphuis
PhD Dissertations
This portfolio dissertation studies the activism of the transnational mining justice social movement in Canada and Latin America from the late 1990s to 2019. It focuses on two of the movements most significant human rights projects in that period: Indigenous right to consultation in Latin American (company host states), and the right to remedy in Canada (company home state). Chapter One undertakes an in-depth study of the Peruvian Campesino Community San Andres de Negritos long battle in search of a legal remedy for its dispossession in favor of Yanacocha Mine in the early 1990s. The Communitys turn to the law …
The Nexus Standard And Its Implications For International Tax Competition And Soft Law, Huaning Li
The Nexus Standard And Its Implications For International Tax Competition And Soft Law, Huaning Li
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the importance of the nexus approach to international taxation. The nexus approach was first adopted in Action 5 of the G20/OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project and has since been implemented as a minimum standard through the BEPS Inclusive Framework. It requires a country to apply preferential taxation of income from patent and patent-like intellectual property (IP) under patent box regimes only to the amount that has a nexus with that country. Drawing on the existing literature and a case study of 10 countries that have adopted the nexus standard, this dissertation makes two central …
Mining Conflict, Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Justice: The Case Of Phulbari Coal Project In Bangladesh, Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan
Mining Conflict, Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Justice: The Case Of Phulbari Coal Project In Bangladesh, Mohammad Mahmudul Hasan
PhD Dissertations
My doctoral dissertation, an in-depth case study of the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh, accentuates the interests and engagements of Indigenous peoples (Adibasi people) in the decisionmaking process in resource extractive industries through an environmental justice framework. My primary aim is to observe how and to what extent Indigenous peoples’ interests are reflected in official environmental decision-making processes versus how they frame their own claims in a mining conflict situation. I employ extensive qualitative research in the project area to demonstrate how Adibasi communities articulate and implement their claims through raising their voices and ultimately stimulating a movement that stopped …
Re-Visiting The 'Resource Curse': Law And Mining Governance In Southern African Developmental States, Sara Ghebremusse
Re-Visiting The 'Resource Curse': Law And Mining Governance In Southern African Developmental States, Sara Ghebremusse
PhD Dissertations
Using the case studies of Botswana, South Africa, and Zambia, this dissertation interrogates the applicability of the developmental state paradigm to mining developmentalism in Southern Africa. Since the advent of neoliberal Washington Consensus policies and the rise of the resource curse theory beginning in the 1980s, African states have been discouraged from pursuing interventionist policies in their mining sectors. Instead, through the methods of conditionality and transnational norm-creation, many African states were pressured to adopt good governance principles that limited their role, and the role for law, in expanding opportunities for mining-led development across the region. As growing consensus challenged …
Into The "Vortex Of Legal Precision": Access To Justice, Complexity, And The Canadian Tax System, Colin Jackson
Into The "Vortex Of Legal Precision": Access To Justice, Complexity, And The Canadian Tax System, Colin Jackson
PhD Dissertations
This thesis is an exploration of access to justice issues in the Canadian tax system. Drawing on the work of Roderick Macdonald, it argues for a broad conception of access to justice based on the empowerment of individuals in all of the sites, processes, institutions where law is made, administered, and applied. It argues that tax law shows the usefulness of this comprehensive approach to access to justice. Using the comprehensive approach to access to justice, the thesis goes on to argue that legal complexity should be seen as an important access to justice issue in tax law. It lays …
Global Animal Law And International Trade Law After Ec-Seal Products: An Interactional Analysis, Katie Sykes
Global Animal Law And International Trade Law After Ec-Seal Products: An Interactional Analysis, Katie Sykes
PhD Dissertations
This thesis is a case study of the formation of new norms in international law. The norms are those that concern animal protection. The thesis argues that international trade law is playing a part in the development of international legal norms for animal protection. The theoretical model applied is interactional international law, the theory of the constructivist international legal scholars Jutta Brunnée and Stephen Toope. Interactional theory posits that legitimate, binding international law arises from norms based on shared understandings, exhibits specifically legal characteristics that correspond to Lon Fuller’s criteria of legality, and is created, maintained and supported through interaction …
Regulatory Transgression? Drivers, Aims And Effects Of Money Laundering And Terrorism Financing Regulation In Pakistan, Ahmed Sanaa
PhD Dissertations
The harmonization of money laundering and terrorism financing regulation is a key feature of the contemporary global economy. Since 9/11 particularly, the remarkable growth of this field of regulation has been characterized by both scale and intensity. However, this drive towards regulatory convergence is puzzling: the efficacy of the regulation remains unproven while the content of the regulation poses significant challenges to both criminal justice systems and human rights frameworks. The corollary to these observations: who does the regulation benefit? With the understanding that all regulation is an expression of some interest/s, this study analyses the trajectory of this global …
A Comparative Study Of Judicial Safeguards In Relation To Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Pavla Kristkova
A Comparative Study Of Judicial Safeguards In Relation To Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Pavla Kristkova
PhD Dissertations
ISDS is a relatively young and dynamic regime. It faces challenges for which other adjudicative systems, after centuries of development, have found solutions. In ISDS, fair rules and procedures are essential since ISDS is an adjudicative regime said to be based on the rule of law. The importance of complex and carefully crafted rules and procedural safeguards is underscored by the impact of ISDS on a wide array of parties and interests and by its encroachment on the powers of sovereign states affecting their populations. Yet ISDS is criticized as unfair and open to unacceptable appearances of bias due to …
Assessing Canada's Copyright Law In The Digital Context: Digital Locks, Open Licenses, And The Limits Of Legislative Change, Justice Ifeonukwu Ogoroh
Assessing Canada's Copyright Law In The Digital Context: Digital Locks, Open Licenses, And The Limits Of Legislative Change, Justice Ifeonukwu Ogoroh
PhD Dissertations
This dissertation examines Canadas copyright law reform in the information age. The overarching theme of my research underscores the importance of considering the purpose(s) of copyright law and the public interest while navigating the copyright law reform process. Additionally, I advocate that in regulating the influence of technology in the copyright system, the default approach should aim to objectively balance the interests of stakeholders to the extent possible. Ultimately, recognizing that stakeholders will continue to develop pragmatic responses to the changing landscape through private contracting and technological measures, I suggest that embracing regulatory pluralism is the most promising path towards …