Law Reform and Codification

Canada's Criminal Law Codification

La r6forme du droit par la codification et son histoire semblent fasciner tout juriste, et notamment le juriste qu6b6cois. L'auteur analyse l'histoire et l'historiographie de ce genre particulier de r~forme h partir d'un recent historique de la codification du droit p6nal canadien de 1892. Toujours conscient des pifges du r6visionnisme et du prsentisme, il 6tablit un paralle entre cette codific...

Codification of the Criminal Law

Euthanasia and law reform.

In 1983, the Law Reform Commission of Canada published its Report on Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment,1 following its Working Paper2 and Study Paper3 in the Protection of Life series. The Report is interesting more for its approach than for its recommendations. A close examination of it reveals some fascinating parallels between what I have called "legal law reform", 4 whic...

Labor Law and Its Reform

Metapolitics and Corporate Law Reform