Law

Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and the art of justice. State-enforced laws can be made by a group legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes; by the executive through decrees and regulations; or established by judges through precedent, usually in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals may create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that adopt alternative ways of resolving disputes to standard court litigation. The creation of laws themselves …

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Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 17 July 2024 English

IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members' plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the …

WTO members can make use of an established framework that allows them to scrutinize proposed drafts or already adopted laws


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

This policy brief explores the implications of the 15% global minimum tax on special economic zones, offering comprehensive guidance for governments to reform tax incentives and ensure these zones attract …

breach found–Egypt did not guarantee under national law or the BIT that the tax regime would remain unchanged actions undertaken in accordance with national law (Tugushev, 2020). In other words, by being accepted unjust, arbitrary, unfair, violated due process of law, or was discriminatory, thereby amounting to a denial performance-based, introduced in the national tax law rather than SEZ legislation, and time-bound (FIAS and the Future. Journal of International Economic Law, 24(2), 473–490. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgab019


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

A group of 90 World Trade Organization (WTO) members are negotiating a new global agreement on e-commerce rules at the WTO. After close to 7 years of discussions, they are …

for the WTO. Journal of International Economic Law, 25(1), 2–24. https://academic.oup. com/jiel/article/25/1/2/6533600 Katherine Tai on digital trade. International Economic Law and Policy Blog. https://ielp.worldtradelaw.net


DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

HOUSE OF GLASS 17before continuing. “Em, our in-law, it is well. We have heard your request and it’s mother had told her things about her mother-in-law, things only choice words could describe — words “Ogo bu chi onye,” which translated to “One’s in-law is one’s god,” but it yielded nothing. His father


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and degradation. Many policy documents, …

precautionary principle became popular in environmental law and policy in the 1990s, yet it is increasingly falling occasion- ally become the basis for environmental law. This is illustrated by its definition in Article 130(2) legal connotations: a prin- ciple of law is perceived as a source of law. This means that the precautionary or a single ruler.’6 However, ‘plurality is the law of the earth’.7 The political neglect of plurality


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 French

Les catholiques en Nouvelle-France ont transmis et modifié, voire réinventé les modes d’expression associés à la Réforme catholique à la française. Regards sur l’âme en Nouvelle-France explore la manière dont …

archeology, anthropology, literary studies, and law, contribute to a new and enriched understanding of imperial expansion, colonial life, culture, language, law, science, religion, and the environment. Cette série


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

Jonathan Kaplansky 57 In the Public Good Eugenics and Law in Ontario C. Elizabeth Koester 58 Transforming and the Making of Occupational Health and Safety Law in Ontario.” 35 Gleason, “From ‘Disgraceful Carelessness’ Press, 1990. – “Risk and Responsibility.” Modern Law Review 62, no. 1 (1999). Gleason, Mona. “From ‘Disgraceful 230–41. Goodman, Nan. Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century and the Making of Occupational Health and Safety Law in Ontario, 1960s –1980.” Policy and Practice in


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

The Poetics of Translation challenges our pragmatic understanding of translation through the discipline’s use in contemporary innovative writing practices, highlighting translation’s ability to create meaning, celebrate uncertainty, and interpret rather …

scimitar slash 32 The Poetics of Translationbetween law/fact, right/death. In Chus Pato’s work, this figure


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

Cox 6 In Their Own Write Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter the ManReg Research Seminar in the Department of Law, and the Department of History Staff Seminar Series includ- ing in articles for History Compass, Liverpool Law Review, and Cultural & Social History. We thank the of Liverpool Archives (UL) University of Ottawa Law Library (UOLL) Preface xiiixiv Prefacefriendless schemes can be seen to have endured in modern adoption law and twentieth-century child separation policies enacted


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