CS-IVR 2007 Annual Meeting

The Canadian Section of the IVR will meet at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon on Sunday, May 27, 2007.

The following topics for the 2007 meeting were proposed at the meeting last year at York University:

• Legal agents (and/or officials) and liability
• International and global justice
• The work of Joseph Raz
• Other work in progress

Papers on the theme (Law and Legal Cultures) or workshops (e.g., The Future of Positivism) of the 23 IVR World Congress Krakow, August 1-6, 2007 are also welcome. Click here for details.

Dates:

• Due by Friday, February 9, 2007: Commitment to send principal paper or commentary.
• Due by Friday, April 27: Principal papers.
• Due by Friday, May 18: Commentaries.
• Meeting on May 27th.

To help with organizing, please send paper titles, abstracts, 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 to members in a number of formats on the CS-IVR web site.

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• Minutes of the 2006 Annual General Meeting -- Please read and/or print before attending the meetings in Saskatoon.

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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 Saskatoon. 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 (last updated 25 May 2007):

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PAPERS RECEIVED:

• Jeremy P. Livingston, "Waldron, charters, disagreement"
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• David Campbell, "Raz on Multiculturalism: Illiberal Conclusions from a Liberal Argument"
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• Roger A. Shiner, "Theorizing criminal law reform"
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• Ken Nickel, "Criminal Negligence and the Objective/Subjective Debate"
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• Nathan Brett, "Disrespect for the Law: A look at Philosophical Anarchism"
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• Travis Hreno, "Jury Nullification and the Rule of Law"
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• Marc Ramsay, "Wrongful Pregnancy and Thin Skull Choices"
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• Michael Milde, "Why Jeremy Waldron is wrong about judicial review"
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COMMENTARIES RECEIVED:

• Marc Ramsay, "Commentary on Jeremy P. Livingston"
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• Marc Ramsay, "Commentary on David Campbell"
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• Joshua Mildenberger, "Commentary on Travis Hreno"
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• Frank Jankunis, "Commentary on Ken Nickel"
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• Marc Ramsay, "Commentary on Michael Milde"
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• Nathan Brett, "Commentary on Marc Ramsay"
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• Joseph Ellin, "Commentary on Brett: The Problem of Obedience to Law"
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• Nathan Brett, "Commentary on Roger Shiner"
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