9 results for "Roderick A. Macdonald"
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Law Reform for Dummies (3rd Edition)
Legal pluralist law reform engages citizens in dialogue through which they gain richer insight into their normative lives and learn to manage everyday interactions with each other. Noting that first- and second-generation law reform commissions have been critiqued for their narrow vision and goal…
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Understanding Civil Law Scholarship in Quebec
Scholarship in law (la doctrine) plays a more important role in the civil law tradition than in the common law tradition given the existence of a code, the formal style of judgment writing and the pervasiveness of the view of law as legal science. Since the late eighteenth century, civil law…
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...Meech Lake to the Contrary Notwithstanding (Part I)
In this essay, which will be published in two parts, the author argues that the Meech Lake Accord was more than a hastily cobbled together political deal between the Prime Minister and ten provincial premiers. Despite the unattractive process by which the Meech Lake Accord was struck, and…
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...Meech Lake to the Contrary Notwithstanding (Part II)
In this essay, which has been published in two parts, the author argues that the Meech Lake Accord was more than a hastily cobbled together political deal between the Prime Minister and ten provincial premiers. Despite the unattractive process by which the Meech Lake Accord was struck, and…
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Academic Questions
The paper which has been reproduced in your Conference Materials is, in many ways, a reflection of McLuhan’s dictum that “the medium is the message”.
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Patchwork Law Reform: Your Idea Is Good in Practice, but It Won't Work in Theory
This article elaborates a conception of law reform that is pluralistic, interactional, non-formulaic, attentive to implicit normativity and not exclusively instrumental. It argues that law reform practice is always informed by theory. Where theory is inadequate, law reform practice is likely to…
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Small Claims Court Cant
Small claims courts have traditionally been seen as a valuable institutional innovation for facilitating access to justice. In Quebec, the small claims court is particularly prized because most corporate plaintiffs may not be plaintiffs, because parties may not be represented by lawyers and because…
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