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The purpose of this article is to consider the philosophy, form and function underpinning erasure poetry. Erasure is a creative practice involving redaction or the striking through of certain words ... poems' pictorial format is easily shared online. This article suggests that the poststructuralist philosophy underpinning the form is also key to its traction insofar as it enables poets to expose the
This short paper looks at the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act decision through a wider and more critical jurisprudential lens. In so doing, I demonstrate that the courts are no less political ... , one of the most pressing concerns on the contemporary political agenda is how to deal with the many challenges and serious ramifications of climate change. A major part of that is about what to do about
This paper explains how the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in R. v. Chouhan concerning jury impartiality is an illustrative example of “baselines”, or how implicit political positions held by ... expectations are reasonable?5 In my view, shifting those baselines froimmplicit to explicit enables a much better appreciation for the unavoidably political character of legal interpretation that can be obscured
Justice and the idea of the moral good pervade legal philosophy and underlie much of legal practice in different contexts. They are particularly resonant in the law of equity and the remedies it ... constructive trust to understand equity’s place within common law, and its relationship with branches of philosophy that engage justice and fairness, they must be considered in the context of what equity is and
to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to
Therapeutic Jurisprudence is a legal philosophy concerned with the human effects of the law. Its scholarly work promotes greater interaction between law and the social sciences to draw attention to ... lens (Cattaneo and Goodman 2000; Freckelton 2008), paradigm, research agenda, or philosophy (Roderick and Krumholz 2006, Wexler 2011) , method (Stobbs et al. 2019a) , ‘set of procedural guidelines
the POGG’s National Concern Test” (2021) 55:1 Revue Juridique Thémis 103-135. 43 Peter Rinderle, “The Political Philosophy of European Subsidiarity” in Günter Walzenbach & Ralf Alleweld, edsV.,arieties ... national concern for fear of morphing vast social, political and economic questions into new permanent and exclusive heads of federal jurisdiction. In R. v. Crown Zellerbach, Le Dain J. had also concluded
property protection, enforcement, and development but also allows for challenges to this existing standard that are not possible elsewhere due to broader economic and political reasons. It discusses the ... characteristics. In doing so, this continues to develop the concept where comics examine areas such as politics, sociology, philosophy, ethics, and of course law, which ‘have all positively engaged at some level
Stranger City is quite different from these works as it is concerned with the manifold experiences of various European citizens set in London against a background of xenophobia, nationalism and political ... fictions defined as fragmented narratives and networked novels in an attempt to identify the tensions between fragmentation and relationality that have been visible at a political and social level in the
-Europe approach. The essay adopts a different stance, exploring Brexit with less formalism and more attentiveness to its impact on British society. It uses novels and essays, political pamphlets, and other ... attention of lawyers, sociologists, economists, and political scholars. It has been (and no doubt will continue to be) examined within all these disciplines. Consequently, this essay will not indulge in
. novels and essays, political pamphlets, and other writings prompted by Brexit. The aim is to explore the doubts, fears, and threats that still haunt the UK after leaving the EU, paying particular attention ... send the EU £350 million a week – let’s fund our NHS instead’ testify to the impact Brexit has had on the public sphere, putting under stress the bonds of the British political community. Slogans like
The Supreme Court of Canada’s political process cases cover a wide array of issues, including the right to vote, electoral redistricting, campaign finance and the regulation of political parties ... /iss1/5 Yasmin Dawood* * Canada Research Chair in Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Electoral Law, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
space to reflect upon the changes we are witnessing in our contemporary society and try to understand their sociocultural, economic, and political implications. Brexit is based on nostalgic images of ... and political situation, and in some cases they may introduce a perspective towards change. As Rudd observes, children’s literature actually focusses on ‘the gap between the ‘constructed’ and the 1
political types of determining criminal liability and aims at concluding general theoretical reflections. The article deals primarily with the semiotic and philosophical character of special rules (the so ... mentioning that the adopted pattern will define the direction of criminal policy. Another criterion may be related to political philosophy, including the current state of justice or the legitimacy of the
Shylock’) Sarah-Jane Coyle (PhD candidate, School of Arts, English, and Languages, Queen’s University, Belfast) similarly looks to racism to consider the philosophy, form, and functions underpinning ... philosophy is integral to its traction insofar as it enables poets to expose unjust fallacies in, for example, official court documents, transcripts, and government reports. In examining traditional
whether a welfare-oriented philosophy should be the exclusive guiding principle in society’s response to juvenile offending. In true Canadian political fashion, then Minister of Justice Lucien Cardin struck ... and political considerations specific to section 15, particularly in the context of young people, inevitably formed part of the backgroun11d.Slippery slope concerns about constitutionalizing appellate
has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal
Philosophy, Politics, Policy and Law(Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006), a seminal Canadian treatise on critical disability theory in law. equality rights doctrine and discuss the ... , but rather is the byproduct of a collection of disadvantages manufactured by social norms and regulations, policies and practices and economic and political ac9toErss.ential to the social model is the
The protection which the law gives animals is based on a fundamentally different philosophy to that it gives people. With people, causing significant physical harm is nearly always prohibited ... has for their welfare. Animal protection; Role of campaigning lawyers; Legislative philosophy - Introduction 1822 saw the first, very limited law to protect animals anywhere in the world, in the UK.1
distinction, exclusion or preference based on race, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, sexual orientation, civil status, age except as provided by law, religion, political convictions ... ,isability Rights and Wrongs Revisited, 2d ed. (Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxon: Routledge, 2013), especially at 12-21; D. Pothier, D. Devlin & R. Devlin, Critical Disability Theory: Essays in Philosophy, Politics