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The Social Power of Bodin's 'Sovereignty' and International Law
(Melbourne Journal of International Law, 2003)
The word ‘sovereignty’ provides a forceful example of the social power of language as an
organic instrument playing a leading role in the continuous and continuing process of creating
and transforming human reality. The ...
National Application of International Law: The Statutory Interpretation Perspective
(UBC Press Publications, 2003)
Parliamentary Debates in Statutory Interpretation: A Question of Admissibility or of Weight?
(McGill Law Journal, 1998)
The exclusionary rule which prohibits references to parliamentary materials as an aid to statutory interpretation has been applied for decades in most common law jurisdictions. The House of Lords handed down its fundamental ...
Recent Developments on the Role of International Law in Canadian Statutory Interpretation
(Oxford University Press, 2004)
The Westphalian Legal Orthodoxy - Myth or Reality?
(Journal of the History of International Law, 2000)
Driedger's 'Modern Principle' at the Supreme Court of Canada: Interpretation, Justification, Legitimization
(Les Éditions Thémis, 2006)
In the last 20 years, Elmer Driedger’s “modern principle” has
emerged as THE expression of the Supreme Court of Canada’s preferred approach to statutory interpretation. The authors examine this fundamental development in ...