Noel Semple
Noel has had two papers recently accepted for publication. “Judicial Settlement-Seeking in Parenting Disputes: Consensus and Controversy” will appear in the Conflict Resolution Quarterly, and “Mandatory Family Mediation and the Settlement Mission: A Feminist Critique" will appear in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. These papers are available on SSRN.
Basil Ugochukwu
Basil's article article "The Pathology of Judicialization: Politics, Corruption and the Courts in Nigeria" has been published as follows: (2011) 4(3) Law and Development Review 58-87. To read Basil's article, click here. (Sept 2011)
Aviv Pichhadze
Aviv has a new article titled “New forms of risk in US capital markets” in the September 2011 issue of Financier Worldwide Magazine available here.
Peter Jenkins
Peter’s paper "Historical Simulations - Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues" (2006) appears on the All Time Top Ten lists for three SSRN eJournals: 1) Law & Psychology, 2) Law, Brain & Behavior, and 3) Law, Cognition & Decisionmaking.
His paper received a great deal of attention after it was mentioned in the New York Times in 2007 (August 13, 2007 and August 14, 2007). Additionally, Professor Nick Bostrom of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford has also mentioned it on his web site and has cited it in a paper appearing in the current issue of the esteemed Oxford journal of philosophy, Analysis.
Peter expects to have his dissertation completed shortly and is currently making plans for his post-doctoral phase. (Feb 2011)
Priscila Becker
Priscila's essay, “The Convention on Biological Diversity, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation of Biodiversity”, has been chosen as the winner of the graduate-level 2010 Michael Baptista Essay Prize for outstanding scholarly papers on topics of relevance to the area of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
The Michael Baptista Essay Prize and Lecture are named in honour of Michael Baptista in recognition of the areas central to his spirit and success: the importance of his Guyanese / Caribbean roots, his dedication to and outstanding achievement at the Royal Bank of Canada, and his continued and unqualified drive and love of learning. (Feb. 2011)
Sujith Xavier
Sujith, a third year PhD Candidate, was recently selected for an internship with the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) through a highly competitive process. The ICTY, located in The Hague, The Netherlands, is a United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990’s.
The Interns attached to the Chambers are generally assigned to a specific Chamber to perform legal research and prepare memoranda. Interns assist with and draft legal documents, obtain research materials, assist with the management of documentary evidence, observe court proceedings and participate in analysis and discussions. Sujith's doctoral thesis, under the supervision of Professor Peer Zumbansen, explores international criminal prosecutions. (Jan 2011)
Noel Semple
Noel's article entitled "Whose Best Interests? Custody and Access Law and Procedure" appeared in the most recent issue of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal (Vol. 48, No. 2). It is also available on SSRN. To read Noel's article, please click here.
Pascale Chapdelaine
Pascale's paper “Living in the Shadow of the Intangible, the Nature of the Copy of a Copyrighted Work” will be published in the Intellectual Property Journal in two parts, i.e. in the (2010) 23 I.P.J. and the (2011) 24 I.P.J. editions.
A shorter and earlier version of this paper titled: “The nature and justification of the consumer’s ownership rights in the copy of a copyrighted work”, won a Canada’s IP Writing Challenge award in October 2010.
Nachshon Goltz
Nachshon Goltz's paper entitled " ESRB Warning: Use of Virtual Worlds by Children May Result in Addiction and Blurring of Borders’ – The Advisable Regulations in Light of Foreseeable Damages" will be published in the coming issue of PGH. Journal of Tech. Law & Policy.
Nasser Victor Rego
Nasser Victor Rego has been awarded the SSHRC CGS Doctoral Scholarship for the years 2010-2013 (valued at $35,000/annum and beginning September 1 2010).
The dissertation will explore the relationship between Israeli law and Palestinian citizens of the Naqab region over the past ten years, since 2000 until present, using a socio-legal approach. It will ask questions not often studied, such as what is the nature of the relationship between the legal system and Naqab Palestinians, what are the socio-economic aspects that shape and influence the legal process, what are the ideologies, identities, and legal consciousness’ constructed and at play over the past decade? Through investigating these questions, I hope to gauge the general trajectory down which the legal system and the Naqab Palestinian community are heading and to recommend pragmatic, justice principled ways forward. Currently, although there exists a significant body of literature on the Israeli state’s policy towards the Naqab Palestinians (Falah, Meir, Swirski and Hasson, Human Rights Watch), and critical studies of the treatment of Palestinian citizens under the Israeli legal system (Kedar, Peleg, Abu Hussein and McKay), there is no critical, comprehensive scholarly analysis of sociolegal developments in the Naqab over the past decade.
Nasser's research is supervised by Prof. Susan G. Drummond (Law). Prof. Obiora Okafor (Law) and Prof. Carmela Murdocca (Sociology) are the supervisory committee members.
Charis Kamphuis
Charis has been awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral). The amount awarded is $35,000 per year for three years, beginning September 1, 2010.
Charis will examine the local legal processes that signal a reconfiguration of the relationship between corporate and public power in the resource extraction sector in the global South. To do so, she will undertake a case study of several international human rights litigation initiatives that implicate transnational mining companies, private security companies, and the Peruvian State. Her observations will be compared to those recorded in other relevant studies. Charis will further catalogue the panoply of international and domestic human rights regimes that purport to govern the corporate violations alleged in her case study.
Her objective is to scrutinize how law, the state, the corporation and organized civil society are conceptualized by these legal projects. This research process will lay the groundwork for developing a theoretical framework that can evaluate corporate human rights initiatives not only in terms of their implications for law and society, but also for their capacity to address the justice issues raised by transnational corporate resource extraction. In this regard, her research will also capture and analyze the lawyering practices of human rights advocates as they endeavour to represent collectives, particularly Indigenous communities, on issues of international economic justice.
Charis' research is supervised by Professor Shin Imai.
Pascale Chapdelaine
Osgoode PhD Candidate Pascale Chapdelaine has been awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships Doctoral Award which awards $105,000.00 over a three-year period.
Pascale’s research sets out to define the consumer interest in Canadian copyright law. Both in Canada and around the world, copyright law has developed around the protection of copyright-holders rights and has traditionally ignored consumers of copyright works. As a result, the applicability of minimum levels of protection generally available to consumers (such as information disclosure requirements, and implied warranties of quality and fitness for intended use) to the permitted scope of use of digital films and musical recordings is unclear. The scope and manner by which copyright works can be enjoyed by consumers is largely left to the will and discretion of copyright-holders, and seems to have passed under the radar of consumer protection analysis and scrutiny.
Pascale’s doctoral research is supervised by Professor Giuseppina D'Agostino, Director of IPOsgoode, with the assistance of Professors David Vaver (Osgoode and Oxford) and Geraint Howells (Manchester School of Law).