CS-IVR 2006 Annual Meeting

The Canadian Section of the IVR will meet at York University in Toronto, Ont. on Friday, June 2, 2006.

The following topics for this year's meeting were proposed at the meeting last year at UWO:

• The Concept of Crime
• Discrimination
• Children & Family Law
• Justice & Health Care
• Other Work in Progress

Dates:

• Due by Friday, February 10, 2006: Commitment to send principal paper or commentary.
• Due by Friday, April 28: Principal papers.
• Due by Friday, May 19: Commentaries.

To help with organizing, please send paper titles or topics (abstracts are welcome but not necessary) or a commitment to do a commentary to the Executive Director, Nathan Brett.

Papers and commentaries should be sent to Bob Bright, who will make them available in a number of formats on the CS-IVR web site.

Hope to see you this June!

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• Minutes of the 2005 Annual General Meeting -- Please read and/or print before attending the meetings in York.

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PAPERS AND COMMENTARIES

NOTE: Access to the files listed below is restricted to members of the CS-IVR and guests who plan to attend the meetings in York. To download the files, please contact Bob Bright for a username and password.

NOTE 2: Each paper and commentary is available in PDF, MS Word, RTF, and HTML formats. The multiple versions are as similar as the idiosyncracies of different software packages and computing platforms will allow. The "canonical" version of each paper and commentary is the PDF version; please use this version if possible, since it guarantees consistent pagination across platforms.

PROGRAM:

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PAPERS RECEIVED:

• William E. Conklin, "Hegel on Crime"
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• Susan Dimock, "Reasonable Women in the Law"
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• Alistair M. Macleod, "Freedom, Justice, and Democracy"
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• Jan Narveson, "Justice in Health Care"
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• Marc Ramsay, "The Harm Principle and Canadian Law: Reconciling Malmo-Levine & Caine with Labaye"
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• Malcolm Thorburn, "Justifications and State Action"
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• Chris Tucker, "Actively Avoiding Deference: Judicial Activism, Deference, and Chaoulli"
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• Roger Shiner, "What Is A Crime?: A theory of the legislative response"
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• Sheldon Wein, "Getting Legal Theory Back on Track"
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COMMENTARIES RECEIVED:

• Nathan Brett, "Susan Dimock on Reasonable Women"
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• Joseph Ellin, "On Sheldon, Hart, and Law"
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• Joe Ellin, "Brief comments on Jan and Chris Tucker"
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• Joe Ellin, "Susan on Reasonable Women"
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• Christopher B. Gray, "Crimes, and Milder Demeanours"
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• Michael Giudice, "Commentary on S. Wein, 'Getting Legal Theory Back on Track'"
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• Alistair M. Macleod, "Jan Narveson on Justice in Health Care"
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• Alistair M. Macleod, "Malcolm Thorburn on "Justification" Defences and State Action: Some Questions"
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• Marc Ramsay, "Commentary on Roger Shiner"
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• Marc Ramsay, "Comments on Chris Tucker"
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• Chris Tucker, "Comments on Marc Ramsey"
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• Sheldon Wein, "Chaoulli, Deference, and Judicial Activism: Some thoughts on Chris Tucker's paper"
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