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Global standards of Constitutional law : epistemology and methodology
(2015)
Just as it led the philosophy of science to gravitate around scientific practice, the abandonment of all foundationalist aspirations has already begun making political philosophy into an attentive observer of the new ways ...
“Tell me where it hurts”: workplace sexual harassment compensation and the regulation of hysterical victims
(2006)
Abstract : Informed by a feminist analysis, the author examines a new development in the legal responses to workplace sexual harassment in Quebec. Sexual harassment has been recognized as a psychological injury, compensable ...
Pour un développement de l’épistémologie juridique au Canada… comme ailleurs
(2004)
ll y a une vingtaine d’années, la recherche juridique au Canada faisait l’objet d’un rapport la considérant somme toute «nettement sous-développée». Et on a récemment présenté un bilan plutôt mitigé des suites du Rapport ...
The cross-fertilization of jurisprudence and the principle of proportionality : process and result from a canadian perspective
(2013)
Modern comparative constitutionalism traces back at least to the practice of some states in the post-World War II era of adopting democratic regimes as well as constitutionally entrenched bills of rights. It has since been ...
The surprising formalist: Justice Gonthier's contribution to labour law
(2012)
The apparent variance between two corpora — Justice Gonthier’s administrative law judgments and his labour law judgments — constitute an apparent paradox that lead me to dub him a “surprising formalist”. In this paper, I ...
The Drug testing virus
(2009)
Abstract : Drawing on a methodology inspired by the work of Michel Foucault, the author traces a “genealogy” of the legal framework governing employment drug testing in Canada. This exercise leads him to claim that the ...
Acquired expertise of administrative tribunals and the standard of judicial review: the case of grievance arbitrators and human rights law
(2013)
Focusing on arbitral decisions on human rights claims arising in the employment context, this paper looks at the nature of the expertise of administrative tribunals and its role in determining the standard of judicial ...
La Bibliothèque du Code civil : un ouvrage au confluent de la tradition et de la modernité
(2002)
La Bibliothèque du Code civil de Charles-Chamilly de Lorimier et Charles-Albert Vilbon, parue au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, demeure un des ouvrages de référence marquants de la production juridique québécoise. ...
Autour d’un paradigme juridique de la reconnaissance
Other titre : Recognition as a Legal Paradigm?
(2011)
Les travaux de l’actuel directeur de l’Institut de recherches sociales (Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS) de Francfort et les commentaires qu’ils se sont attirés posent la question des conditions de possibilité d’une étude ...
Metaphors and models in legal theory
(2011)
Abstract : In this article, the author argues that metaphors can be used as the basis for creating models in legal theory. Drawing on the literature on metaphor from the philosopy of language, he contends that metaphors ...