Law
Biukovic, Ljiljana Cluster Member
Ljiljana Biukovic' current research interests focus on the adaptation of international legal norms by national governments, the impact of regionalism on multilateral trade negotiations and the development of European Union Law.
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- European Union law
- International trade law
- International dispute resolution
- Comparative law
de Mestral, Armand Cluster Member
Armand de Mestral is Jean Monnet Professor of Law at McGill University in Montreal. His current research interest focuses on the law of international economic integration. He has served on WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement and arbitration tribunals and was made member of the Order of Canada in December 2007. Media Experience: Dr. de Mestral has more than 30 years of experience engaging with a wide variety of media especially in TV and Radio and welcomes media inquiries.
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- International trade law
- Law of regional economic integration
- European Community law
- Canadian and comparative constitutional law
- International environmental law
- International humani ...
Dedek, Helge Cluster Member
Helge Dedek is interested in and has published in the areas of (European and German) private law, in particular the law of obligations, (comparative) legal history, comparative law, legal theory, legal education, and Roman law. He is currently undertaking a research project (2008-2011) “The Rise and Fall of ‘Promise’ in the Civil Law Tradition,” supported with funding from the Fonds de Recherche sur la Societé et la Culture Québec (FRSQ).
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- Private law
- European private law
- European legal history
- Comparative law
- German private law
- Legal education
Hallstrom, Lars Cluster Member
Lars Hallstrom’s is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Governance at St. Francis Xavier University. His research has traditionally focused upon environmental policy making in European and federal systems of governance and is now increasingly concerned with the political and policy implications of linking health, social,and ecological systems.
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- European Environmental Policy
- EU Public Policy
- European Civil Society Environment in the New Europe
- European Federalism
- Public Participation in Policy
Maas, Willem Cluster Member
Willem Maas holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at York University and is executive member of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies and of the Centre for Public Policy and Law, and is also member of the Centre for Refugee Studies. Currently, his areas of interest relate to: researching theoretical and empirical questions on citizenship, integration policies, the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism, and the intersection of migration and law. In 2007, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. published his book Creating European Citizens. The book suggests that integration has always been about much more than economics, and that free movement of persons is central to integration, and that the political project of transcending borders and building a European community of people has implications for the global rise of rights.
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Moyse, Pierre-Emmanuel Cluster Member
Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse's interests and research are legal history, the study of property systems (intellectual property, civil law property), competition and commercial law.
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- Comparative Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Competition law
- Legal Theory
- International Private Law
- Commercial law
O’Brien, Martha Cluster Member
Martha O’Brien’s primary research looks at European Union law and international taxation, including tax treaties, EU fundamental freedoms, and tax harmonization within the EU. Dr. O'Brien also works on aspects of EU-Canada trade, including: direct investment, trade in services, the free movement of capital, inter-provincial trade in Canada, and comparative federalism.
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- Law of the European Union
- International Taxation
- International Investment Law
- International Trade
Petit, Isabelle Cluster Member
Isabelle Petit is the Executive Director of the McGill University- Université de Montréal European Union Centre of Excellence. Her research interests include: European integration, Comparative politics, International relations, and public law (constitutional, international and administrative). Currently, she is engaged in research projects which focus on the following topics: the creation of a Euro-identity, the development of a European dimension in EU member states' education systems, the thoughts and ideas of the founders of Europe, and the EU institutional architecture and the federal model. Media Experience: Dr. Petit has a great deal of experience responding to TV, Radio and Print Media inquiries.
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- European integration
- Comparative politics
- International relations
- Public Law
Soennecken, Dagmar Cluster Member
Dagmar Soennecken's research focuses on comparative politics and public policy in the EU and North America. She is particularly interested in questions concerning law and the courts as well as citizenship and migration. Dagmar is currently working on two major research projects: The first has generated a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Empowered Courts and the Fate of Refugees Compared, and a select number of articles. It investigates the growing influence of the judiciary over refugee determinations in Canada and in Germany from the 1950s to the present. The second project, Courts and Refugees in the UK: Juristocracy Reconsidered, for which research is still ongoing, expands the focus of the first to the UK and the European Union level.
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Weibust, Inger Cluster Member
Inger Weibust’s research examines the interplay between governance and public policy, and particularly regulation. Is it possible to create institutions to carry out policy functions previously or usually performed by national governments? Her book Green Leviathans (Ashgate Publishers, 2009) looks at cooperation on environmental regulation between states/provinces and within federations. Dr. Weibust’s findings show that even with favourable conditions, cooperative approaches have largely been ineffective in comparison with national legislation or European Union level regulation.
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- Environmental Issues
- Regulation
- Voluntary Codes
- Governance
- Water
Auvachez, Elise
Elise Auvachez’s research looks into the construction of citizenship beyond the nation-state, and particularly the processes of "citizenisation" by the EU and the UN. One of her case studies focuses on youth citizenship. Media Experience: Elise Auvachez welcomes TV, Radio and Print media inquiries.
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- Citizenship,
- European Citizenship;
- Human rights and the EU;
- Policy/legislative process,
- Popular Participation and Citizenship,
- Referenda in the EU,
- Treaties and Conv ...
Fraser, Derek R. T.
Derek Fraser is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. His work has supported the democratization process in the Ukraine and he has organized and contributed to academic and foreign policy conferences, notably on failed states and Eastern Europe. Formerly, Derek Fraser was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) and President of the Victoria branch. Media Experience: Dr. Fraser has a tremendous wealth of media outreach experience on numerous programs and in a multitude of publications across TV, Radio and Print formats, and welcomes future media inquiries.
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Jakhu, Ram
Ram Jakhu is the managing editor of Space Regulations Library Series; a member of the Editorial Boards of the Annals of Air and Space Law and of the Utrecht Series in Air and Space Law; a member of the Board of the International Institute of the Space Law International Astronautical Federation; and the Chairman of the Legal and Regulatory Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. His research interests include: international space law; law of space applications; law of space commercialization; government regulation of space activities; law of telecommunications; Canadian communications law; and public international law. Media Experience: Dr. Jakhu has extensive media outreach experience in TV, Radio and Print media formats and invites future inquiries for comment.
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Paudyn, Bartholomew
Bartholomew Paudyn is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. His primary research interests lie in the field of EMU governance, and specifically the asymmetric application of Europe’s fiscal framework, the Stability and Growth Pact.
Mr. Paudyn is currently problematizing and dissecting the EMU through a “governmentality” approach in order to understand how risk and uncertainty come to operate as dominant modes of regulation. Employing a critical genealogy, he ascertains what kind of economy of power Europe is implicated in and how this affects its spatial and temporal constitution.
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Payrow Shabani, Omid
Omid Payrow Shabani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. In general, he has been interested in bridging the gap between the theoretical framework of critical theorists and liberal nationalists in order to be able to address concrete questions of policy making in multicultural societies from the normative perspective of constitutional patriotism. Currently, Dr. Shabani has become interested the ascending role of religion in politics and what it implies for basic tenets of liberalism like the state/church separation principle and the idea of public reason. In this connection he is interested in what form this problematic has taken in the EU's member-states like France and Germany.
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Soldatos, Panayotis
Panayotis Soldatos is Emeritus Professor from the Université de Montréal and a Jean Monnet Professor at the Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3. His major research focuses on the major constitutional issues in the EU, particularly by bridging the gap between the legal and political analysis of European integration.
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Stan, Lavinia
Lavinia Stan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. She has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, and transitional justice in post-communist countries. Most of Dr. Stan's work relates to Romania, but she has also written on Poland, Hungary and the former Soviet Union republics. A graduate of the University of Toronto and a political scientist by training, she is co-editor for Europe for the Women’s Studies International Forum, a reviewer for Choice, past chair of the Wildavsky Award Committee of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, past collaborator with the East European Constitutional Review, and an expert with Directorate-General of Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission.
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Weiner, Elaine
Elaine Weiner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at McGill University. Her major fields of interest lie in the intersection of gender, culture, and Central and East European societies. Dr. Weiner is currently researching the adoption and implementation of equal opportunity legislation in East Central Europe from the standpoints of both its institutional and individual stakeholders, with a particular focus on the Czech case.
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