Court rules US not “Safe Country”
The Safe Third Country Agreement was struck down yesterday in Federal Court. The U.S. was the only country under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act designated as a safe country. The agreement stated that a…
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Black Anti-Gun Control
Opposition to gun control is typically associated with lobby groups such as the NRA, largely comprised of white Conservatives. Some bloggers suggest that NRA even put out this publication, described as depicting …people of Asian,…
LOTR and Legal History
Gwen Seabourne of the University of Bristol School of Law has an interesting article on legal history as it is used in the Lord of the Rings at Common Lawyer. The Oath Binding oaths are…
Western Law’s Ethics Exam Becomes a Debacle
by Alex Dimson (From the September Issue of Nexus, Western Law’s Student Newspaper) The mystery of how a final copy of Western Law’s first-year ethics exam made its way to a library photocopier several days…
UN Peacekeeping and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Part of the International Conflicts series Introduction One of the only international instruments working in the DRC currently is the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUC. According the UN’s peacekeeping website, this is the largest current UN…
LRA negotiations in Northern Uganda
Part of the International Conflicts series Joanna Quinn: Getting to Peace? Negotiating with the LRA in Northern Uganda Joanna Quinn is the Co-Chair of the Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group at the University…
The DRC: Instability and Conflict
Bread and Butter of International Relations Recently, the foreign minister for Uganda visited Kinshasa the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in order to deal with growing tensions between the two neighbouring…
Intl Law & Political Settlements
These notes are from the Cross-Purposes? International Law and Political Settlements conference at the University of Western Ontario, on Jun. 9-10, 2007, with some editorial content added by Omar Ha-Redeye. From Left: Joseph Rikhof, Valerie…
Vote Dilution means Minorities Have Less Voice
Not All Votes are Equal A study by University of Toronto Professor Sujit Choudhry and J.D. student Michael Pal released earlier this year by the Institute for Research on Public Policy found that under the…