Building on his exposé of Earle Nelson, Alvin Esau’s The Hangmen of Canada is a rigorous and historically valuable study of capital punishment in Canada. Through rich archival research—drawing on court records, government files, and media accounts—Esau explores the legal and institutional dimensions of hangings, focusing on the lives of Canada’s public executioners. Rather than simply footnotes in the broader discussion of capital punishment, Esau examines Canada’s hangmen as an essential figure within the criminal justice system.
The Manitoba Law Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1961. The MLJ's current mission is to provide lively, independent and high caliber commentary on legal events in Manitoba or events of special interest to our community. The MLJ aims to bring diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives to the issues it studies, drawing on authors from Manitoba, Canada and beyond.This volume of Robson Crim, published by the Manitoba Law Journal, features papers from leading scholars in criminal law, criminology, psychology, and criminal justice.
The Manitoba Law Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1961. The MLJ's current mission is to provide lively, independent and high caliber commentary on legal events in Manitoba or events of special interest to our community. The MLJ aims to bring diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives to the issues it studies, drawing on authors from Manitoba, Canada and beyond. This volume of Robson Crim, published by the Manitoba Law Journal, features papers from leading scholars in criminal law, criminology, psychology, and criminal justice.
The Manitoba Law Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1961. The MLJ's current mission is to provide lively, independent and high caliber commentary on legal events in Manitoba or events of special interest to our community. The MLJ aims to bring diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives to the issues it studies, drawing on authors from Manitoba, Canada and beyond.This volume of Robson Crim, published by the Manitoba Law Journal, features papers from leading scholars in criminal law, criminology, psychology, and criminal justice.
Underneath the Golden Boy is the dimension of the Manitoba Law Journal that focuses on legislation, public policy, and democratic and parliamentary reform. This issue is released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first issue of this ongoing series.
This issue of the Manitoba Law Journal is a continuation of our “The Current Legal Landscape” series. The contributions featured in this edition deploy a range of methodologies to address some of the most fundamental issues in our legal system. This volume features a diverse array of contributions from lawyers, judges, and legal scholars. Each contribution is relevant to the Manitoba Law Journal and addresses important issues within Manitoba's legal landscape.
The Manitoba Law Journal is committed to preserving the voices of distinguished jurists from this province. In that context, we are honoured to present this issue. It includes reflections on his retirement by the Honourable Chief Justice Richard Chartier. This is accompanied by remarks by Chief Justice of Canada, the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, as well as the Honourable Justice Freda Steel of the Manitoba Court of Appeal and the Honourable Margaret Wiebe of the Provincial Court of Manitoba. This issue also contains a comprehensive analysis of the jurisprudence of Chief Justice Chartier, by Melanie Bueckert and Michael Rice. The final contribution in the volume is a focused look at the judgments of the retiring Chief Justice in the area of civil procedure, by Gerard Kennedy.
This is the first issue of a new dimension to the Manitoba Law Journal. We are referring to this new dimension as “The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law” (or TRETL, for short). TRETL represents the combination of what was formerly the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law and the Desautels Review of Private Enterprise and the Law. The first of these was started by one of us (Schwartz) in 2000.
This issue of the Manitoba Law Journal is focused on online dispute resolution, or ODR. This issue is the second installment of a threepart series examining how the Canadian legal system adapted to the COVID-19 crisis. The first was 46.1 Canada’s Emergencies Act: Beyond the Roulou Report. The third issue will explore decision-making during the crisis by our most senior elected leaders in Manitoba
This issue of the Manitoba Law Journal is our annual Underneath the Golden Boy edition. This means that the contributions in this volume are largely focused on the actions taken by, and issues around, the legislative and executive branches of government, rather than focusing on the courts. In Andrew Flavelle Martin’s first contribution in this volume (“Loyalty, Conscience, and Withdrawal: Are Government Lawyers Different?”), the author considers the somewhat unique”” position of government lawyers when the client asks the lawyer to do something that the lawyer considers unethical. Martin believes that there are unique scenarios that can arise for government lawyers.
On February 14, 2022, Canadians watched the Emergencies Act in action for the first time. Enacted in 1988 against the backdrop of the 1970 use of the War Measures Act, the Emergencies Act had lain dormant for over 30 years. Then, in the winter of 2022, the federal government declared a public order emergency in response to the ‘Freedom Convoy’, a protest movement that culminated in a weeks-long occupation of Ottawa and blockades of border-crossings across the country.
In 1999, a gift to the University of Manitoba created the Asper Chair in International Business and Trade Law in the Faculty of Law. From the beginning, there was a commitment to have the Chair provide an outlet for research within its mandate. From the year 2000 forward, the Asper Chair has done this through the vehicle of the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. For the first 22 years of its existence, the Asper Review functioned independently of any other publication, both in the Faculty of Law and elsewhere, under the editorship of Dr. Bryan Schwartz. While, in later years, others would share the title of Co-Editor-inChief, Dr. Schwartz, as the Asper Chair throughout, has been the driving force behind the Asper Review since its inception, and remains so today.
The inaugrual edition of the Desautels Review. This piece, published in October of 2022 honours our benefactor with articles, recent development, case comments and book reviews.
The oral history of Indigenous people in Canada has been recognized by mainstream legal systems in Canada over the past few decades as being of fundamental importance in court cases and negotiations with Indigenous peoples. As Indigenous peoples further exercise their right to self-government, they will continue drawing their oral traditions to define and develop their autonomous legal system.
This anthology attempts to collect a wide variety of materials that embody many perspectives. It attempts to place those materials within a conceptual framework that might be helpful in looking at Indigenous oral history, and indeed oral history generally. That framework includes viewing oral history in three dimensions of time - testimony about recent events, oral histories that encompass an individual's lifetime, and oral traditions that are passed down from generation to generation. The framework includes looking at oral history in the context of how many cultures and traditions incorporate oral history in their legal systems and cultures. It asks both how values and methods differ among communities and how they reflect widespread or virtually universal tendencies. The framework also invites the reader to consider the different ways in which oral evidence can or should be reinforced or qualified by references to other sources of information, such as other oral evidence, documentary testimony and physical evidence of various kinds.
It is hoped that this collection will be of assistance to others in studying or developing their own teaching materials in this dynamic area.
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The Manitoba Law Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1961. The MLJ's current mission is to provide lively, independent and high caliber commentary on legal events in Manitoba or events of special interest to our community.
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