Neil MacCormick has deeply influenced contemporary legal theory. The importance of his studies on practical reasoning in general and on legal reasoning and legal argumentation in particular, on legal institutionalism, on sovereignty, on the theory of rights and on the rule of law can hardly be exaggerated. It must be added that his researches on these different themes do not proceed along paral...

Conscientious Objection or conscientious refusal (CO) in access to reproductive health care is at the center of current legal debates worldwide. In countries such as the US and the UK, constitutional dilemmas surrounding CO in the context of reproductive health services reveal inadequate policy frameworks for balancing CO rights with women's rights to access contraception and abortion. The Colo...

The right to be forgotten is often framed as being at odds with the freedom of expression. This paper aims to challenge that position. First, I briefly summarize Google Spain as an introduction to the right to be forgotten. Next, I review recent cases in the Canadian jurisprudence and argue that they potentially set the stage for a Canadian right to be forgotten. I then turn to an analysis of h...

This paper looks at transgender identities and the law in the context of marriage. It particularly focuses on the role of language and definition in classifying transgendered individuals into a legal category. Two lines of cases in transgender jurisprudence are examined. The former cases decided the definition of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ on the basis of biological criteria while the latter cases held ...

Abstract Digital humanities has a venerable pedigree, stretching back to the middle of twentieth century, but despite noteworthy pioneering contributions it not become mainstream practice in Islamic Studies. This essay applies computing study law. We analyze representative corpus works substantive law ( furūʿ al-fiqh ) from beginnings legal jurisprudence early modern period (2nd/8th-13th/19th c...

Islamic financial jurisprudence has always had the stated aim of enhancing human welfare, and therefore prohibitions must be seen through the lens of welfare-enhancing regulation of financial practices. In today’s age of financial engineering, utilizing many of the legal and financial advances of the past two decades, it is quite easy to synthesize the contracts that classical and contemporary ...

INTRODUCTION The process by which the jurisprudence course was restructured at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College is chronicled. METHOD A Delphi process used to restructure the course is described, and the results of a student satisfaction survey are presented. RESULTS When asked "I think this material was clinically relevant," over 81% of the 76 students who respondents strongly ag...

Late twentieth-century jurisprudence on personal jurisdiction has had to deal with a fundamental challenge to conventional interpretations of both territorial sovereignty and networks or contacts, different than those that arose from traditional re-interpretations of visualized, cartographic space or corporate activity. Globalization makes border crossing a little bit too easy, and thereby call...