The paper argues that the main reason why there was once a need for domestic courts in Canada to invoke the methodology of treaty interpretation relates to the common law-based exclusionary rule on preparatory work (or travaux préparatoires). The hypothesis is that, now that this rule has been...

The modern articulation of the constitutional principle of the rule of law is credited to A.V. Dicey, who identified three essential elements of what is generally considered a formal version of the concept. Namely, (1) to be ruled by law, not by discretionary power, (2) to be equal before the...

In the last 20 years, Elmer Driedger's modern principle has emerged as THE expression of the Supreme Court of Canada's preferred approach to statutory interpretation. The authors examine this fundamental development in Canadian law, including the variable relations between Driedger's quote and...

French Abstract: Si l’« égalité des armes » est à ses premiers balbutiements en droit processuel au Québec, son potentiel de croissance semble considérable. Après en avoir défini la nature et vu ses ancrages juridiques – l’article 23 de la Charte québécoise et les principes...

The 2009 European Report on Development analyses the costs and characteristics of fragility (Section 1), the capacity of fragile countries to cope with negative shocks such as the 2008-09 financial crisis (Section 2), and the EU’s current engagement with fragile countries as well as the...