This paper "frames" the study of lawyers in Canadian history against major interpretations of the legal profession and legal professionalism including the historical self-understandings of organized legal professions in the common law world, market-control theorists, institutional, and cultural...

To obtain a Canadian citizenship, a foreign national from every country should comply with various conditions. One of them is the residency obligation in Canada for a period of time fixed in the Canadian Citizenship Act (“the Act”).The term residence is not defined by the Act in its previous...

When a law purports to combat a problem, many of us take for granted that it is doing it effectively, and that it in turn is not harming people. This paper looks at one regulation that, while aiming to protecting the integrity of the immigration system, in fact erodes the humanitarian and...

In Canada (Attorney General) v. Federation of Law Societies of Canada, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada recognized a new principle of fundamental justice pursuant to section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: a lawyer's duty of commitment to a client's cause. This article...