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Renewing Freedom Of Expression, Part Two: From The Contextual Approach To Proportionality Balancing, Jamie Cameron

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This article continues the project to renew the Charter’s methodology of expressive freedom in two parts. Part One explained that the Court’s approach to s.2(b) decision making is skewed against expressive freedom and must be addressed holistically, under ss.2(b) and s.1. (see J. Cameron, “Resetting the Foundations: Renewing Freedom of Expression under Section 2(b) of the Charter”, in B. Bird and D. Ross, eds., Forgotten Foundations of the Canadian Constitution. (LexisNexis Canada, 2022). Part One provided a critique of the current methodology, addressed the meaning of freedom under s.2(b), proposed a revised standard of breach, and sketched a …

Against Integrity: A Feminist Theory Of Moral Rights, Creative Agency & Attribution, Carys Craig, Anupriya Dhonchak

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This Chapter explores insights that feminist theories can bring to the study and development of moral rights protections in copyright law. It begins by explaining why certain facets of conventional moral rights theory are ill-suited to—indeed inconsistent with—a feminist approach in both concept and effect. In particular, to the extent that strong moral rights of integrity and association limit dialogic engagement with, and transformation of, protected works, they risk suppressing critical and counter-hegemonic expression, and support an individualized and romanticized conception of the (patriarchal) author-figure. Employing alternative feminist conceptions of situated selfhood, relationality and dialogic authorship, the Chapter then explores …

Gripe Sites & Trademark User Rights: Lessons From Canada’S Cooperstock Case, Carys Craig

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This Chapter is concerned with the nature of trademarks as vehicles of expression. It takes, as its lesson study, the unfortunate Canadian Federal Court case of United Airlines v. Cooperstock in which a disgruntled United passenger quite spectacularly failed in his efforts to defend a trademark parody on his consumer complaints “gripe” site. The case demonstrates the risks of relying on trademark law’s internal limits and implicit exceptions to define the boundaries of the trademark owner’s control. I argue, first, that the case therefore underscores the need for explicit statutory exceptions to ensure breathing space for parody, criticism, and other …

Fiscal Contract And The Canada Disability Benefit: Lessons From Income Tax Law, Jinyan Li

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This paper adopts a fiscal contract approach to examining the design of the Canada Disability Benefit and advocates using the CCB as a design model. It argues that a fiscal contract underlies the Income Tax Act which collects taxes as well as spends public money on poverty-reduction programs. In a tax state, the government’s spending is tied to taxing. The current fiscal contract reflects key Canadian values, such as equity and fairness, ability to pay, work, family and the rule of law. The CCB, which is implemented through the Income Tax Act, is a superior design model to the Guaranteed …

Regulating Health And Safety In Capitalist Workplaces: History, Practices And Prospects, Eric Tucker

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The chapter provides a broad overview of occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation in advanced capitalist countries with a focus on the English-speaking world. It views OHS regulation through a political economy lens in which protective legislation is enacted and implemented against the imperative of a profit-driven system of production. The chapter provide examines the historical development of OHS regulation beginning with the rise of industrial capitalism leading up to modern OHS regimes that increasing embrace mandated partial self regulation. It then considers contemporary debates over the efficacy of these regimes, focusing on the scope of self regulation, the practice …

Workers’ Boards: Sectoral Bargaining And Standard-Setting Mechanisms For The New Gilded Age, Sara Slinn

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This article explores the potential of sectoral standard-setting models (often referred to as “wage boards” or “workers’ boards”) as a solution for contemporary workplace issues, which existing labor relations and minimum standards regulatory systems continue to struggle to address. This argument, the article examines three historical statutory systems of sector-based minimum workplace standard-setting established in the early 20th century as a response to unacceptable wages and working conditions: the British Wages Council system, the Canadian Industrial Standards Act, and the US Fair Labor Standards Act. The article applies the conceptions of fairness identified in Seth Harris's study of the origins …

The Future Of The Corporate Form In Income Tax: A Case Study Of Canada, Jinyan Li

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A corporation is nothing but a piece of paper. And yet, this piece of paper enjoys the status of a person and has an independent identity as a taxpayer (the “separate entity principle”). It can generate tremendous value for its shareholders through tax savings resulted from tax deferral, tax shifting, and tax subsidies. Why does tax law allow such value to exist? Is there any hard line constraining the scope of the tax benefits associated with the corporate form? To what extent can the two pillars (Pillar One and Pillar Two) crush the corporate form? What is the future of …

Stuck In Neutral? Reforming Corporate Purpose And Fiduciary Duties, Barnali Choudhury, Martin Petrin

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After decades of corporate leadership based on shareholder wealth maximization, momentum is now gathering behind a shift towards the recognition of stakeholder interests. However, from voluntary actions by business to changes in soft and hard law, the steps taken thus far have been insufficient to result in meaningful changes. Instead, we are stuck in neutral. A more decisive push is needed to ensure that business contributes to tackling the most pressing societal issues of our times in a substantial and timely manner. The Canadian corporate landscape, although beginning to shift away from shareholder primacy, is still not settled and in …

Transgender Erasure: Barriers Facing Transgender Refugees In Canada, Sean Rehaag, Alexandra Verman

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This paper explores the experiences of transgender refugee claimants in Canada’s refugee status determination system, using mixed methods: quantitative analysis of data obtained from the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), reviews of published and unpublished decisions, country condition documentation packages and IRB guidelines, as well as interviews with refugee lawyers. Using these methods, we explore how credibility arises in transgender refugee claims, noting the impact of medicalization and country conditions materials on transgender claims, and drawing parallels between medical gatekeeping and credibility assessments in refugee claims. We identify potential explanations for low recorded numbers of transgender claims as rooted in …

Islamic Law And Colonialism, Rabiat Akande, Halimat Adeniran

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An Imperial History Of Race-Religion In International Law, Rabiat Akande

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More than half a century after the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the International Convention on the Prohibition of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), efforts are underway to formulate a protocol to the landmark convention. Much of the momentum for that endeavor comes from sustained local and global advocacy against racism. An integral part of contemporary anti-racism efforts is a push for legal recognition of the intersectional dimensions of racial domination and subjugation to address the unique precarity of persons inhabiting marginalized axes of identities and experiences. United Nations (UN) debates over repowering the ICERD have therefore featured …

Impossibility And Frustration, Jennifer Nadler

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Perceptions Of Florida Victim Advocates During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Katarina Renee Hamburg

Theses and Dissertations

In December of 2019, a new virus known as COVID-19 emerged out of Wuhan, China. COVID-19 is a respiratory virus which is highly contagious and, in some cases, lethal. By January 20th, 2020, the United States reported its first case of COVID-19. Between January and December of 2020 there were 18.7 million cases and 329,000 deaths in the United States alone. Globally, during that time frame, there were 79.8 million cases and 1.75 million deaths. Due to the highly contagious and dangerous nature of COVID-19, countries across the world have attempted to promote public health by enacting social distancing measures. …

First-Line Police Supervisors’ Utilization Of Criminal Justice Higher Education, Dennis George Hippert

Theses and Dissertations

A first-line police supervisor holds a large influence over street-level police officer behavior (Ingram, et al., 2014), but little consistency exists between police agencies regarding the minimum educational requirements necessary to successfully perform the functions of a first-line police supervisor. This study explored the experiences of criminal justice degree holding first-line police supervisors in using the content of their college curriculum to guide street-level officers in acceptable use of force practices, professional communication with the public, and discretionary decision-making. Employing a grounded theory method of inquiry with a constructivist approach, this study utilized semi-structured, one-on-one interviews to examine the ways …

Experiential Education In Advocacy For Occupational Therapy Students: Didactic Approaches And Learning Outcomes, Aaron Bonsall, Rebecca L. Wolf, Abe Saffer

Journal of Occupational Therapy Education

Advocacy is a foundational value in occupational therapy, but uniformity in teaching and learning advocacy is lacking. This paper proposes and reports on the implementation of an advocacy course based on experiential education. The objective of the study was to evaluate student learning after an advocacy course with an experiential education component using an open-ended survey design. Participants were occupational therapy doctoral students, and the setting was a course taught in a health sciences university. Students voluntarily completed a four-item anonymous survey after participating in an experiential advocacy course. Written responses were coded into themes using an inductive approach. The …

Perceptions Of School Resource Officers On Their Role In Southern Maryland Public Elementary Schools, Lori B. Lodge

Theses and Dissertations

This applied dissertation was designed to investigate the perceptions of school resource officers (SROs) in Southern Maryland regarding the support SROs could provide elementary schools to foster positive interpersonal relationships while maintaining school safety and what additional resources that the SROs needed to support their job.

The overall school climate and morale at some elementary schools have significantly decreased due to increased student-aggressive behaviors. The school climate is correlated to student academic success (Sanders et al., 2018). School climate can include safety, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning, and the school environment.

There is a need for school resource officers in …

Trauma-Informed (As A Matter Of) Course, Natalie Netzel

Faculty Scholarship

Law students are impacted by trauma and law professors are in a position to help by adopting a trauma-informed approach as a matter of universal precaution. The 2021 Survey of Law Student Well-Being (“SLSWB”) revealed that over twenty percent of responding law students meet criteria that indicate they should be evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder (“PTSD”). The study also revealed that almost fifty percent of responding students reported an important motivation for attending law school was experiencing a trauma or injustice. Put differently, law schools are full of law students who have experienced trauma, many of whom are actively struggling …

Asian American Allyship, Victor C. Romero

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

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Army Support To Security Cooperation, United States Army

United States Army: Field Manuals

Army Support to Security Cooperation, United States Army Field Manual FM 3-22

What Is An Establishment Of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?, Vincent Phillip Munoz

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 37 and later (2023–present)

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Commerce In The Balance, Andrew Jordan

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 37 and later (2023–present)

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"Critical Legal Studies, Again?" "Again And Again!", Evan D. Bernick

Constitutional Commentary, Vol. 37 and later (2023–present)

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Table Of Contents (V. 47, No. 2)

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

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The Need For Additional Landslide Regulation: Examining Flooding Through A Case Study, Kristen Gartner

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

Natural disasters are increasing at an alarming rate. As of this writing, the top five deadliest disasters occurred after 1970, and the top five most economically devastating occurred in the years since 2005, with three of them occurring in 2017. These increasing storms are exacerbated by the worsening of climate change and global warming. The problem will continue to increase if federal and state governments fail to properly regulate and prepare for these natural disasters. This Note will specifically discuss the regulation and prevention of landslides by comparing them to the regulation of flooding. Other examples of natural disaster regulation …

การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบกฎหมายที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการลงทุนทางตรงจากต่างประเทศ ระหว่างประเทศไทยกับประเทศเวียดนามในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์, จิตรกัญญา กัลยาณมิตร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

เอกัตศึกษาเล่มนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษากฎหมายของไทยและเวียดนาม ตลอดจนปัจจัยอื่น ๆ ที่ส่งเสริมการลงทุนทางตรงจากต่างประเทศในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ และเพื่อวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างของกฎหมายของไทยและเวียดนาม ตลอดจนปัจจัยอื่น ๆ ที่ส่งเสริมการลงทุนทางตรงจากต่างประเทศในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ ผู้ศึกษาได้เปรียบเทียบสิทธิประโยชน์ตามพระราชบัญญัติส่งเสริมการลงทุน พ.ศ. 2520 กับกฎหมายการลงทุน ปี พ.ศ. 2563 (The Law on Investment 2020) ของเวียดนาม รวมถึงปัจจัยอื่น ๆ ที่ส่งเสริมการลงทุนทางตรงจากต่างประเทศในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของไทยและเวียดนาม ได้แก่ ความตกลงการค้าเสรี สัญญาว่าด้วยการเก็บภาษีซ้อน อัตราค่าจ้างขั้นต่ำ ผลิตภัณฑ์มวลรวมในประเทศ เสถียรภาพทางการเมือง ประชากร และภูมิศาสตร์ เพื่อทราบความแตกต่างของกฎหมายของไทยและเวียดนาม ตลอดจนปัจจัยอื่น ๆ ที่ส่งเสริมการลงทุนทางตรงต่างประเทศของไทยในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ เพื่อได้แนวทางในการส่งเสริมการลงทุนทางตรงจากต่างประเทศในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของประเทศไทย จากการศึกษาพบว่า มาตรการส่งเสริมการลงทุนตามกฎหมายส่งเสริมการลงทุนของประเทศไทยและประเทศเวียดนามในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ มีความแตกต่างกัน โดยมาตรการส่งเสริมการลงทุนของเวียดนามในบางเรื่องให้สิทธิประโยชน์มากกว่ามาตรการส่งเสริมการลงทุนของไทย นอกจากนี้ เวียดนามยังมีความได้เปรียบในปัจจัยอื่น ๆ ที่ส่งเสริมการลงทุนทางตรงจากต่างประเทศในอุตสาหกรรมเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์เมื่อเปรียบเทียบกับประเทศไทย ปัจจัยเหล่านั้นได้แก่ การจัดทำความตกลงการค้าเสรี อัตราค่าจ้างขั้นต่ำ ผลิตภัณฑ์มวลรวมในประเทศ เสถียรภาพทางการเมือง และประชากร

Volume 13 Masthead, Journal Of International And Comparative Law, Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

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A Comparative Look At Various Countries' Legal Regimes Governing Automated Vehicles, Brittany Eastman, Shay Collins, Ryan Jones, Jj Martin, Marjory S. Blumenthal, Karlyn D. Stanley

Journal of Law and Mobility

News and commentary about automated vehicles (AVs) focus on how they look and appear to operate, along with the companies developing and testing them. Behind the scenes are legal regimes—laws, regulations, and implementing bodies of different kinds—that literally and figuratively provide the rules of the road for AVs. Legal regimes matter because public welfare hinges on aspects of AV design and operation. Legal regimes can provide gatekeeping for AV developers and operators seeking to use public roads, and they can allocate liability when something goes wrong. Guiding and complementing legal regimes is public policy. Policy documents such as articulations of …

Regulatory Frameworks For Smart Mobility: Current U.S. Regulation Of Connected And Automated Vehicles And The Road Ahead, Olivia Dworkin, Jorge Ortiz, Nicholas Xenakis

Journal of Law and Mobility

On June 7, 2023, Senator Gary Peters from Michigan gave an interview about autonomous vehicle technology where he stated that: “From a competitive standpoint, there’s no question that it is absolutely essential that this technology get developed here and deployed here in the United States. We’re facing significant international competition from other countries that understand that autonomy represents not only the future of mobility, but it drives other technologies in a significant way.” Just last year, Senator Peters and eleven of his colleagues had also written a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg that: “The federal government has the …

Guide To Bill Of Attainder Clauses In Article I, Sections 9 And 10, Matthew J. Steilen

Contributions to Books

These are commentaries on the Bill of Attainder Clauses in Article I, sections 9 and 10. Each is 2000 words long. They are forthcoming in the 3d edition of Heritage Guide to the Constitution. Topics covered include the history of English bills of attainder, the meaning of "bill," "notorious," "attainder," and other key terms, bills of attainder passed against loyalists during the American revolution, the Josiah Philips case, the legislative history of the clauses in the Philadelphia Convention, early Supreme Court decisions involving bills of attainder, and the modern doctrine. Inline citations and a short bibliography are included. The author …

The Public Voice Of The Defender, Russell M. Gold, Kay L. Levine

Articles

For decades police and prosecutors have controlled the public narrative about criminal law. The news landscape features salacious stories of violent crimes while ignoring the more mundane but far more prevalent minor cases that clog the court dockets. Defenders, faced with overwhelming caseloads and fear that speaking out may harm their clients, have largely ceded the opportunity to offer a counternarrative based on what they see every day. Defenders tell each other about the overuse of pretrial detention, intensive pressure to plead guilty, overzealous prosecutors, cycles of violence, and rampant constitutional violations-all of which inflict severe harm on defendants and …