Product Description
From different angles and through a variety of lenses, the papers in this collection examine the relationships between international and domestic law and the treatment of international law by Canadian governments, parliamentarians, and the courts. The book aims to address the need for a clearer and broader understanding of how international law impacts on domestic law and policy, in order to be able to use law more effectively in international and domestic litigation, dispute settlement, policy development, and decision-making. This book encourages the reader to think deeply about how law is evolving in a globalizing world and to consider how Canada and Canadians can influence this evolution in positive ways.
Introduction – Oonagh Fitzgerald on behalf of the Department of Justice Canada
PART ONE: WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HOW DO WE FIND IT IN CANADA?
SECTION A: Introduction to the Issues Surrounding the Relationship between International and Domestic Law
CHAPTER 1: The Use and Abuse of International Legal Sources by Canadian Courts: Searching for a Principled Approach – Hugh Kindred
CHAPTER 2: Implementation and Reception: The Congeniality of Canada’s Legal Order to International Law – Armand de Mestral and Evan Fox-Decent
CHAPTER 3: What is Reception Law? – Gibran van Ert
SECTION B: Canada’s Interest in International Law and Why It Is Relevant to Canadians
CHAPTER 4: Canada’s External Constitution and Its Democratic Deficit – Stephen Clarkson and Stepan Wood
CHAPTER 5: Understanding the Question of Legitimacy in the Interplay between Domestic and International Law – Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
PART TWO: PROCEDURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ROLES
SECTION A: State Actors and the Democratic Deficit
CHAPTER 6: State Actors and the Democratic Deficit: The Role for Parliament in Treaty-Making – Joanna Harrington
SECTION B: Participants Other than National Governments in International Law-Making: Current Practice, Aspirations, and Possibilities
CHAPTER 7: Labour Conventions and Comprehensive Claims Agreements: A New Model for Subfederal Participation in Canadian International Treaty-Making – Gibran van Ert and Stefan Matiation
CHAPTER 8: Fostering Compliance with International Biodiversity Law: Environmental Advocacy Groups Inside and Outside the Courtroom – Natasha Affolder
SECTION C: The Mediating Language of Domestic Implementation: The Challenges, Current and Best Practices
CHAPTER 9: A Legislative Perspective on the Interaction of International and Domestic Law – John Mark Keyes and Ruth Sullivan
CHAPTER 10: International Law Statutory Interpretation: Up with Context, Down with Presumption – Stephan Beaulac
CHAPTER 11: Evidence and International and Comparative Law – Anne Warner La Forest
PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
SECTION A: The Special Case of Implementing Human Rights Treaties, Whose Standards Evolve Domestically and Internationally: Current Practice and Reform
CHAPTER 12: Making a Difference: The Canadian Duty to Consult and Emerging International Norms Respecting Consultation with Indigenous Peoples – Stefan Matiation and Josée Boudreau
CHAPTER 13: Implementation by Canada of its International Human Rights Treaty Obligations: Making Sense Out of the Nonsensical – Elisabeth Eid and Hoori Hamboyan
CHAPTER 14: The Domestic Implementation of International Human Rights Law in Canada: The Role of Canada’s National Human Rights Institutions – Linda Reif
SECTION B: Substantive Domestic Law and the Implementation of International Law
CHAPTER 15: Domestic Implementation of Canada’s International Human Rights Obligations – Donald J. Fleming and John P. McEvoy
CHAPTER 16: The Role of International Treaties in the Interpretation of Canadian Intellectual Property Statutes – Daniel J. Gervais
CHAPTER 17: The Effect of International Conventional Criminal Law on Domestic Legislative Initiatives since 1990 – Doug Breithaupt
CHAPTER 18: “If Commerce, Why Not Torture?” An Examination of Further Limiting State Immunity with Torture as a Case Study – Maurice Copithorne
CHAPTER 19: Implementation of International Humanitarian and Related Law in Canada – Oonagh E. Fitzgerald
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
