Faculty of Law of McGill University2006-2007 ANNUAL REPORT
PUBLICATIONS FOR 2006 CALENDAR YEAR
ADAMS, W.
Refereed Papers:
Adams, W.A., “Determining Indeterminacy: The Necessisty of a Temporal Dimension in Legal Classification”, (2006) 44 Alberta Law Review 423-428.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
I have been quoted several times in print publications in relation to the Menu Foods pet food recall regarding the possibility of seeking moral damages in relation to the wrongful death of a family pet.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Animals, Persons and Legal Relations (web-based)
Business Associations (web-based).
AKHAVAN, P.
Refereed Papers:
Payam Akhavan, “Proliferation of Terminology and the Illusion of Progress,” 2 Genocide Studies and Prevention 73 (2007).
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
Payam Akhavan, “Report on the Work of the Office of the Special Adviser of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide,” 28 Human Rights Quarterly 1045 (2006).
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
Payam Akhavan, “Justice was in free fall at Saddam's execution,” The Globe and Mail, 10 January 2007.
Payam Akhavan and Irwin Cotler, “Iran makes a travesty of human rights,” The Globe and Mail, 22 June 2006.
Payam Akhavan, “The long shadow,” The National Post, 22 January 2007.
Payam Akhavan, “Hold Iran to account over Canadian scholar,” The Toronto Star, 22 May 2006.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
International Humanitarian Law, Cases and Materials
ANTAKI, M.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Antaki and Manderson, Materials for Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to the Law
Antaki and Manderson, Materials for Linguistic & Literary Approaches to the Law
Antaki, Materials for Constitutional Law of Canada
BACHAND, F.
Refereed Papers:
“Does Article 8 of the Model Law Call for Full or Prima Facie Review of the Arbitral Tribunal’s Jurisdiction?”, (2006) 22 Arbitration International 463
“The Legal Effectiveness, in a Class Action Context, of an Arbitration Clause Found in a Consumer Contract Concluded on the Internet”, (2006) (1) Stockholm International Arbitration Review 114
“L’effet d’une clause compromissoire invoquée à l’encontre d’un appel en garantie et l’effet en droit interne de la Convention de New York”, note following the July 22, 2005 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in GreCon Dimter Inc. v. J.R. Normand Inc., [2005] Revue de l’arbitrage 1084
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
“Recent Developments on Grounds for Annulment and Non-Enforcement of International Awards in Canada”, report to the NAFTA 2022 Committee, June 2006 (Morelia, Mexico)
Factum filed with the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of the London Court of International Arbitration (co-author with Pierre Bienvenu), Dell Computer Computer Corporation c. Union des consommateurs, September 2006
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Evidence (Civil Matters), two-volume transsystemic casebook, detailed outline of approx. 25 pages and comprehensive WebCT website
Droit judiciaire privé, two-volume transsystemic casebook, detailed outline of approx. 25 pages and comprehensive WebCT website
Extrajudicial Dispute Resolution), two-volume transsystemic casebook, detailed outline of approx. 20 pages, comprehensive WebCT website
Investment Arbitration – NAFTA (McGill/Penn State Summer Arbitration Programme), electronic casebook, detailed outline (7 pages, 1-credit course)
BELLEY, J.-G.
Book Chapters:
«Vertus et vices du pluralisme juridique radical », in L. Castonguay et N. Kasirer, dir., Étudier et enseigner le droit: hier, aujourd’hui et demain; Bruxelles/Cowansville, Brylant/Yvon Blais, 2006, p. 415-414. « Un regard sociologique et laïc sur le droit », in C. St-Pierre et J.P. Warren, dir., Sociologie et société au Québec. Présences de Guy Rocher, Montréal, Hurtubise, 2006, p. 195-205.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
« Préface » à J.C. Gémar et N. Kasirer, Jurilinguistics / Jurislinguistiques: entre langues et droit, Bruxelles/Montréal, Bruylant/Éd. Thémis, 2005, p.X1-X11.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
· Obligation contractuelles 2006-2007, 2 vol. Révision majeure;
· Government Control of Business. Droit de la concurrence. Entièrement nouveau.
BLACKETT, A.
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
“Trade Liberalization, Labour Law and Development: A Contextualization,” Report submitted to the International Institute for Labour Studies, Geneva, December 2006, 40 pp.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
Book Review, Bob Hepple, Labour Laws and Global Trade (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2005), 302pp., (2006) 44 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 573-582.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Significantly revised casebook for Trade Regulation (Montreal: Eastman, 2006), Two volumes.
CAMPBELL, A.
Refereed Papers:
A. Campbell, “Proceeding with ‘Care’: Lessons to Be Learned from the Canadian Parental Leave and Québec Daycare Initiatives in Developing a National Childcare Policy” (2006) 22 Can. J. Fam. L. 171.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
Angela Campbell, “Assessing Legal Approaches to Polygamy and Its Implications for Women” (2006) 2:2 Le Bulletin du SoDRUS (Groupe de recherche société, droit et religions de l’Université de Sherbrooke) 3.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
· Creation of new course materials for Law of Persons (PRV2 270), which I taught for the first time in the winter 2007 term
· Significant revision of course materials for Family Law (LAWG 273).
CANTIN CUMYN, M.
Edited Collections:
«La qualification du pouvoir ou le pouvoir de la qualification», in Libre propos sur les sources du droit, Mélanges en l’honneur de Philippe Jestaz, Paris, Dalloz, 2006, 79-86.
«La notion de biens» (with Michelle Cumyn), in Études portant sur le droit patrimonial, Mélanges offerts au professeur François Frenette, Québec, P.U.L., 2006, 127-150.
Papers in Conference Proceedings:
« La notion de biens en droit québécois», National Report (Quebec) presented at the XVII Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht, NL, July 20, 2006.
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc.:
Comments, by invitation of the Scottish Law Commission on The Nature and the Constitution of Trusts, Discussion Paper No. 133, October 2006. Submission in February 2007.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
«Le droit de l’eau et le développement durable, convergence, complémentarité ou incompatibilité?», Bulletin de la ligue des droits et libertés, printemps 2006, 15-21.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Casebook on La fiducie et l’administration du bien d’autrui, McGill 2006, 255 p.
DEMPSEY, P.
Books & Monographs:
Paul Stephen Dempsey & Laurence E. Gesell, AIRLINE MANAGEMENT: STRATEGIES FOR THE 21st CENTURY (2nd ed., Coast-Aire 2006). 1042 pages.
Edited Collections:
Paul Stephen Dempsey, SPACE LAW (Oceana 2006) (five-volume treatise updated quarterly).
Refereed Papers:
1. “Governance of Commercialized Air Navigation Services”, XXXI Annals of Air & Space Law 213-347 (2006) (with Janda, Nyampong, Saba and Wilson).
2. “Nationality Requirements and Cabotage Restrictions in International Aviation: Sovereignty Won and Sovereignty Lost”, 20 Studies in Air & Space Law 129-51 (2006).
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Public International Air Law (2 volumes 2006)
Private International Air Law (2 volumes 2006).
de MESTRAL, A.
Edited Collections:
D.M.McRae & A.L.C. de Mestral (eds), Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Annuaire canadien de droit international, vol XLIII (2005).
Book Chapters:
A.L.C. de Mestral & Evan Fox-Decent, “Implementation and Reception: The Congeniality of Canada’s Legal Order to International Law” in Oonagh Fitzgerald, The Globalized Rule of Law (Irwin Law / Editions Yvon Blais, 2006) pp. 31- 83.
Also published in French as:
A.L.C. de Mestral & Evan Fox-Decent, «La mise en oeuvre et la réception: la compatibilité de l’ordre juridique canadien avec le droit international» in Oonagh Fitzgerald, Règle de droit et mondialisation, (Irwin Law / Editions Yvon Blais, 2006) pp. 31- 83.
A.L.C. de Mestral “ NAFTA Dispute Settlement: Creative Experiment or Confusion?” in L.Bartels & F. Ortino (eds), Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System (OUP, 2006 ) pp. 359-381.
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
Draft report in the possession of the author: A.L.C. de Mestral, Globalisation and Law Reform November 2006. A study prepared for the Law Commission of Canada.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
CMPL – 543 Law and Practice of International Trade, 2 vols. (4th ed) Prepared with the assistance of Mohammad Nsour.
ELLIS, J.
Book Chapters:
“Globalisation and International Environmental Law” in Benjamin J. Richardson and Stepan Wood, eds., Environmental Law for Sustainability: A Reader (Portland: Hart, 2006) (co-author: Stepan Wood) 343-80.
“Has International Law Outgrown Trail Smelter?” in Rebecca Bratspies and Russell Miller, eds., Transboundary Harms in International Law: Lessons from the Trail Smelter Arbitration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) 56-65.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
Review article: “Overexploitation of a Valuable Resource? New Literature on the Precautionary Principle” (2006) 17(2) European Journal of International Law 445-62.
EMERICH, Y.
Books & Monographs:
Yaëll Emerich, La propriété des créances: approche comparative, Cowansville, Editions Yvon Blais, 2006.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Yaëll Emerich et Nicholas Kasirer, Droit des biens/Civil Law Property 2 volumes, 2006.
FOX-DECENT, E.
Refereed Papers:
“Fashioning Legal Authority from Power: the Crown-Native Fiduciary Relationship” (2006) 4 New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law: 91 – 116.
Book Chapters:
With Armand de Mestral, “Implementation and Reception: The Congeniality of Canada’s Legal Order to International Law” in The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law, Oonagh Fitzgerald, et. al. eds. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006): 31 - 83.
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
With Christiane Tuijtelaars and Hilde Hey, Programa Andino de Derechos Humanos y Democracia: Final Evaluation Report (Utrecht, the Netherlands: Human European Consultancy, 2006), pp. 176.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
“Judicial Review of Administrative Action: Course Pack - Supplementary Readings (2006)”.
“Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: Course Pack – Supplementary Readings (2006).”
“Jurisprudence: Course Pack (2006)”.
GÉLINAS, F.
Refereed Papers:
«Interopérabilité et normalisation des systèmes de cyberjustice: orientations»10 Lex Electronica 3 (2006).
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
Canadian Judicial Council: Alternative Models of Court Administration, Report on constitutional and administrative aspects of court administration, September 2006, 120 pages (with C. Baar, K. Benyekhlef, R. G. Hann and L. Sossin).
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
“Constitutional Guarantees of the Judiciary”, Canadian Report to the XVIIth World Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Utrecht, July 16-22, 2006 (with Karen Eltis).
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
- Resolution of International Disputes: Cases and Materials, McGill University, 2003-2007 (580 pages).
- Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials, McGill University, 2002-2007(1600 pages).
- International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration: Cases and Materials, McGill University, 2004-07.
GLENN J.
Refereed Papers:
Nil (Too many half-baked papers waiting for submission)
Book Chapters:
Nil (two accepted; another chapter approved by publisher, but book itself rejected)
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
Supervised report on housing finance & tenantry housing written by a student (Véronique Fortin) for submission to the Urban Development Commission, Barbados
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Nil (too soon to revise after last revisions)
GLENN, Patrick H.
Refereed Papers:
“Transnational Common Laws” (2006) 29 Fordham International Law Journal 457-471.
“Doin= the Transystemic: Legal Systems and Legal Traditions” (2005) 50 McGill L.J. 863-898.
“On the Use of Biological Metaphors in Law: The Case of Legal Transplants” (2006) The Journal of Comparative Law 358-364.
“Legal traditions and the Separation Thesis” (2006) 35 Nederlands tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosophie & Rechtstheorie 222-240.
“The Precision of Vagueness: Interview with M. Hildenbrandt= (2006) 35 Nederlands tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosophie & Rechtstheorie 346-60.
Book Chapters:
“Comparer ou séparer” in L. Castonguay and N. Kasirer (eds), Etudes offertes à Jacques Vanderlinden [:] Etudier et enseigner le droit: hier, aujourd=hui et demain (Brussels/Cowansville: Bruylant/Yvon Blais, 2006) pp. 177-188.
“The Aims of Comparative Law@ in J. Smits (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2006), pp. 57-65.
“Party Hearings for Supreme Court Appointments B No” in M. Charlton and P. Barker, Crosscurrents : Contemporary Political Issues, 5th ed. (Scarborough: Thomson, 2006), pp. 222-229.
“Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions” in M. Reimann & R. Zimmermann, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006), pp. 421-440.
“Professional Traditions: The Reciprocating Ethics of Jurist and Judge= in J. Erauw, V. Tomljenovic and P. Volken, Liber Memorialis Petar Sarcevic: Universalism, Tradition and the Individual (Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, 2006), pp. 641-648.
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
Review of Hiram E. Chodosh, Global Justice Reform, NYU law book review, www.globallawbooks.org (NYU Law School, 2006).
Review of Symeon C. Symeonides, The American Choice-of-Law Revolution in the Courts: Today and Tomorrow (2002) 298 Recueil des Cours, (2006) 51 McGill L. J. 211-212.
Review of R. Zimmermann, D. Visser and K. Reid, Mixed Legal Jurisdictions in Comparative Perspective: Property and Obligations in Scotland and South Africa, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (ZEuP) 2006, pp. 946-948.
In-house Teaching Materials, etc:
Private International Law: North American Litigation, 3rd ed., 2006
Judicial Institutions and Civil Procedure, 8th edition, 2006, with M. Enright.
GOLD, R.
Refereed Papers:
Richard Gold, “Intellectual architecture as place brand” (2006) 2 Place Branding 220.
Book Chapters:
Timothy Caulfield, Richard Gold, Lorraine Sheremeta, Jon Merz and David Castle, “Informing Genomic Patent Policy” in Genetic Testing: Care, Consent and Liability, Neil F. Sharpe, Ronald F. Carter eds (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2006).
Reports for Government Agencies, Professional Bodies, etc:
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Guidelines on the Licensing on Genetic Inventions (OECD: Paris, 2006) – Guidelines approved by the OECD Council (unanimous approval of the Ambassadors to the OECD’s highest body).
Other Non-refereed Articles, Comments, Reviews, etc:
Richard Gold, “Innovation and Productivity: The need for an intellectual architect”, [October 2006] Policy Options 75.
Comments in the Globe and Mail (one by myself and the other with Tina Piper) on current intellectual property issues.
HEALY, P.
PUBLICATIONS
Invited Talks and Papers:
New Directions in the Procedure for Complaints against Federally Appointed Judges, Annual Meeting of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, 23 May 2007.
Sections 9 and 10 of the Charter and Remedies under Section 24(1), Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges, Lake Carling, Québec, 25 April 2007.
Canadian Judicial Council, Moderator, Special Joint Session of Canadian judicial Council and Canadian Council of Chief Judges, 2 April 2007, Ottawa, Ontario.