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Table of Contents (PDF)Craig Scott, ed., Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001) 750 pp., 25 contributors. [See below for Chapters 1 and 2]

Books

Full Text (PDF)“Transnational Governance of Corporate Conduct through the Migration of Human Rights Norms: The Potential Contribution of Transnational ‘Private’ Litigation” in C Joerges, P Sand and G Teubner, eds., Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004) 287-319 (co-authored with Robert Wai).Full Text (PDF)“Towards the Institutional Integration of the Core Human Rights Treaties” in Valerie Oosterveld and Isfahan Merali, eds., Reaching Beyond Words: Giving Meaning to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), chapter 1 (pp 7-38, fn: 213-225).Full Text (PDF)“Multinational Enterprises and Emergent Jurisprudence on Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” in A. Eide, C. Krause, and A. Rosas, eds., Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Textbook, 2^nd edition (Nijhoff, 2001), chapter 32 (pp. 563-596).Full Text (PDF)“Translating Torture into Transnational Tort: Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms”, chapter 2 in C Scott, ed., Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation, pp.45-63.Full Text (HTML)“Introduction to Torture as Tort: From Sudan to Canada to Somalia”, chapter 1 in Craig Scott, ed., Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001), pp. 3-44Full Text (PDF)“Bodies of Knowledge: A Diversity Promotion Role for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights” in Philip Alston and James Crawford, eds., The Future of UN Human Rights Monitoring (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) 403-437.Full Text (PDF)“1972: New Approaches to International Law” in Yves Le Bouthillier, Donald McRae, and Donat Pharand (for the Canadian Council on International Law), eds., Compendium: The First Twenty Years / Les Premiers Vingt-Cinq Ans (Ottawa: CCIL, 1998) 128-142.Full Text (PDF)“Commentary on Part IV (Human Rights)” in Eric Fawcett and Hanna Newcombe, eds., United Nations Reform: Looking Forward after 50 Years 168-172 (Toronto: Dundurn Press/Science for Peace, 1995)Full Text (PDF)“Constitutional Dialogue” in Joel Bakan and David Schneiderman, eds., Social Justice and the Constitution: Perspectives on the Social Union for Canada 59-83 (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992) (co-authored with Jennifer Nedelsky).Full Text (PDF)“Social Values Projected and Protected: A Brief Appraisal of the Federal and Ontario Government Proposals” in Douglas Brown, Robert Young and Dwight Herperger, eds., Constitutional Commentaries: An Assessment of the 1991 Federal Proposals (Kingston: Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, 1991) 81-92, 95-96.

Book Chapters

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Publisher's Site (HTML)“‘Transnational Law’ as Proto-Concept: Three Conceptions”, (July/August 2009) Vol 10, No 7 German Law Journal 859-876Full Text (PDF)“Iraq and the Serious Consequences of Word Games: Language, Violence and Responsibility in the Security Council,” (2002) Vol. 3, No. 10 German Law Journal [published on-line at GermanLawJournal.com] (36 paras., 7000 words).Full Text (PDF)“Interpreting Intervention,”(2001) 39 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 333-369.Full Text (PDF)“Adjudicating Constitutional Priorities in a Transnational Context: A Comment on Soobramoney’s Legacy and Grootboom’s Promise”, (2000) 16:2 South African Journal of Human Rights 206-268 (lead author; co-authored with Philip Alston).Full Text (PDF)“Canada’s International Human Rights Obligations and Disadvantaged Members of Society: Finally Into the Spotlight?” (1999) 10 Constitutional Forum 97-111.Full Text (PDF)“Reaching Beyond (Without Abandoning) the Category of `Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’”, (1999) 21(3) Human Rights Quarterly 633-660.Full Text (PDF)“Covenant Constitutionalism and the Canada Assistance Plan” (1995) 6 Constitutional Forum 79-87.Full Text (PDF)“A Memorial for Bosnia: Framework of Legal Arguments Concerning the Lawfulness of the Maintenance of the United Nations Security Council Arms Embargo on Bosnia and Herzegovina”, (1994) 16 Michigan Journal of International Law 1-140 (co-authored with Francis Chang, Peter Copeland, Jasminka Kalajdzic, Paul Michell and Abid Qureshi).Full Text (HTML)“Constitutional Ropes of Sand or Justiciable Guarantees? Social Rights in a New South African Constitution”, (1992) 141 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1-148 (lead author; co-authored with Patrick Macklem).Full Text (PDF)“The Interdependence and Permeability of Human Rights Norms: Towards a Partial Fusion of the International Covenants on Human Rights”, (1989) 27 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 769-878.

Journal Articles

Full Text (PDF)(and Peer Zumbansen), “Foreword: Making a Case for Comparative Constitutionalism and Transnational Law” (2008) 46:3 Osgoode Hall Law Journal vii - xixFull Text (PDF)“Ronald St. John Macdonald and International Legal Education,” (2002) Vol. 4, No. 4 International Law FORUM du droit international 215-221.Full Text (PDF)“Tim Parks in Transatlantic Translation,” (Spring 2001) 2:1 Write Magazine 32-36.Full Text (PDF)“Kosovo, the Russia Option and Chechnya” in (Fall/Winter 2000-01) Nexus 53-55.Full Text (PDF)“Social Rights: Towards a Principled, Pragmatic Judicial Role,” (March 1999) 1:4 ESR [Economic and Social Rights] Review 4-6.Full Text (HTML)“Human Rights in a Global Classroom” (Sept. 1998) 4(1) LawLink: The Newsletter of the Bora Laskin Law Library 1 at 1, 3-7 (Internet at: http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/lawlink/v4n1.htm#rights)Full Text (PDF)“Indigenous Self-Determination and Decolonization of the International Imagination: A Plea” (1996) 18 Human Rights Quarterly 814-820.

Shorter Articles

Full Text (PDF)“Remarks” (“Beyond the Sosa v Alvarez-Machain Terms of Debate: Conceptualizing International Human Rights Torts in Terms of ‘Transnational Law’”), (2004) Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (Panel on ATCA Under Attack).Full Text (PDF)“Dialogical Sovereignty: Preliminary Metaphorical Musings”, in Canadian Council of International Law, ed., State Sovereignty: The Challenge of a Changing World -- Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law, 1992 (Ottawa: CCIL, 1993) 267-293Full Text (PDF)“Grenada, Nicaragua and Panama: Tracking Force-for-Democracy Discourse in the 1980s”, Presentation at Annual Conference of the Canadian Council of International Law, Ottawa, Oct. 18, 1991 [co-panellists: Philippe Kirsch, W.J. Fenrick].

Conference Papers

Full Text (PDF)“Jurisdiction and Responsibility: Community and the Force of Law Between Khadr and Amnesty”. Presentation Notes for Presentation to 2008 Constitutional Cases: The Twelfth Annual Analysis of the Constitutional Decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada, April 17, 2009Full Text (PDF)“Comment on Frederick Schauer’s ‘Was Austin Right After All? On the Role of Sanctions in a Theory of Law’,” Nathanson Centre Workshop Series on Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism, March 13, 2009

Other Presentations

Full Text (HTML)Moral and Legal Responsibility with Respect to Alleged Mistreatment of Transferred Detainees in Afghanistan: Presentation to the House of Commons Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in AfghanistanFull Text (HTML)“Magnanimity in our time – II”, (October 27, 2007) GlobalBrief.ca [on Sri Lanka and President Rajapaksa]Full Text (HTML)“Magnanimity in our time – I”, (October 13, 2009) GlobalBrief.ca [President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize]Full Text (HTML)“Magnanimity in our time – I”, (October 13, 2009) GlobalBrief.ca [President Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize]Full Text (HTML)"Diverse Persuasion(s): From Rhetoric to Representation (and Back Again to Rhetoric) in International Human Rights Interpretation" (January 24, 2008). CLPE Research Paper No. 4/2008 (SSRN Working Paper, 32,000 words)Full Text (PDF)“Foreword: An Art of Mind” in Rudolf Bikkers, Morphogenetic Fields (Toronto: Craig Scott Gallery, Toronto, 2008)Full Text (HTML)“Foreword: The Art of American Values” in Raymond Waters, Values (Toronto: Craig Scott Gallery, Toronto, 2008)Full Text (HTML)“‘[T]he Québécois form a nation within a united Canada:’ No Help from International Law,” (January 7, 2007) TheCourt.ca (3800 words)Full Text (PDF)“To Start A War: NATO’s Failure to Pursue the Russia Option During the Kosovo Crisis”, manuscript from the year 2000 (5600 words)

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