Five Common Law Professors Receive Foundation for Legal Research Grants
Common Law Professors Jeremy de Beer, Pascale Fournier, Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Pacifique Manirakiza and Marina Pavlovic have received Foundation for Legal Research (FLR) grants for their individual projects.The goal of the FLR grants is to encourage legal writing of value to Canadian lawyers and judges in their every day practice of law and toward the administration of justice.
Prof. Jeremy de Beer received $5,000 for his project entitled “Protecting Aboriginal Cultural Expression Through Canadian Copyright Law.” The goal of his project is to investigate Aboriginal art in Canada and its relationship to Canada’s copyright regime. Evolution of copyright law and how its application has impacted—and continues to impact—Aboriginal art will be examined. The project will contribute to the understanding of the misappropriation of Aboriginal cultural expression and will suggest solutions that Canadian jurists may employ when researching, litigating or adjudicating matters of this nature.
Prof. Pascale Fournier’s project, “The Get, the Talaq, and Other Subversive Moments: Jewish and Muslim Women Negotiating Divorce in Canada” has received $5000 from the FLR. This project will study the migration of minority religious laws and the effects of such migration on Jewish and Muslim women in Canada. Looking specifically at Jewish and Muslim divorce laws and their application, the research will explore how these laws can travel to Canada without discriminating against Jewish and Muslim women. The overall aim is to uncover Jewish and Muslim women’s experiences and encounters with secular courts while their religious divorce laws are migrating into Western legal systems.
Prof. Heather McLeod-Kilmurray received $5000 for “Arguing Standard of Review after Dunsmuir: Lessons from the Recent Caselaw.” The aim of this project is to provide practitioners with a concise reference tool that summarizes and categorizes the 1,233 analyses since Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick was decided in March 2008 as well as the brief academic and practice literature that has emerged.
For his project, “Les défis relatifs aux poursuites pénales des criminels de guerre au Canada,” Prof. Pacifique Manirakiza has received $5000. This project addresses the challenges related to the prosecution of war criminals in Canada with respect to the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act adopted in 2000.
Prof. Marina Pavlovic received almost $5000 for her project entitled “Forum Selection Clauses in Standard Form Contracts and Consumers’ Access to Justice.” This project is part of Prof. Pavlovic’s larger ongoing work on consumers’ access to justice in the globalized economy which aims to look at different categories of consumer relationships and related dispute resolution mechanisms with an aim of constructing a theory of consumers’ access to justice. The FLR grant provides funds for a research assistant for the summer of 2009 to provide legal research for the project and legal editing of the resulting article.
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