Gendering Islamophobia to Better Understand Immigration Laws

This paper examines two recent developments in immigration law in Western liberal democracies: security exclusions and forced marriage provisions. It aims to consider how both of these settings are influenced by a pernicious Islamophobia and by gender. And, of course, by the intersection that creates a gendered version of Islamophobia. The overarching aim of the work is to consider whether and how human rights arguments are likely to be effective in immigration law. The work proceeds by developing the ideas of ‘unknowability’ and ‘unintelligibility’ as two ways to describe how Western law responds to Islam, and in so doing, contributes to Islamophobia

The 27 geodesic networks in the directed landscape

The directed landscape is a random directed metric on the plane that arises as the scaling limit of classical metric models in the KPZ universality class. Typical pairs of points in the directed landscape are connected by a unique geodesic. However, there are exceptional pairs of points connected by more complicated geodesic networks. We show that up to isomorphism there are exactly $27$ geodesic networks that appear in the directed landscape, and find Hausdorff dimensions in a scaling-adapted metric on $\mathbb R^4_\uparrow$ for the sets of endpoints of each of these networks

DYNAMIQUE DES AGRICULTURES PERIURBAINES EN AFRIQUE SUB-SAHARIENNE ET STATUTS FONCIERS LE CAS DES VILLES D'ACCRA ET YAOUNDE

N° ISBN - 978-2-7380-1284-5International audienceUrban Agriculture dynamic in African cities and land use. This paper is about a PhD work started in 2008 on land use of urban and peri-urban spaces in two African cities: Yaoundé and Accra. Brutal transformation is the context on the peri-urban area in African cities. Many challenges for food security and governance exist in these fast urbanised peri-urban spaces. Urban agriculture has existed for a long time but there are today many questions: which are the consequences of the staying of agricultural activities in city on urban management, environment, food apply and social links? How are solved the conflicts about resources like water, land? Despite the importance of urbanisation, no specific institutions take care of the phenomenon of urban agriculture in Africa. The land ownership system, in particular, determines the future of agriculture. These spaces are intermediaries spaces because there are “between”. Some issues are very important in the two cities: competition between usage, rural depopulation, ethnical question, land monetization, rent repartition. We try to question the link between land status and agricultural systems in periphery if African cities, using the concept of intermediaries spaces. Is this special localisation and context an opportunity or a bridle for agricultural systems

Toward a New Framework for Understanding Political Opinion

This paper was written to frame the work of the Seventh Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law, held at the University of Michigan Faculty of Law, on March 27–29, 2015. To some extent, therefore, it has already served its purpose. It is somewhat tempting in the wake of the Colloquium to completely reconstruct the paper in light of the conversations and conclusions of that event. Such reconstruction, however, would be misleading. Instead, I have chosen to publish the paper in a form that is very similar to its earlier iteration, with a few corrections, clarifications, and explanatory notes about some key pieces that formed part of the Colloquium conversation

New Crossroads and the Opportunity for a Crisis: The State of Canadian Legal Education

This article considers the challenges facing Canadian law schools and compares the current state of affairs to that analyzed in the 1983 Arthurs Report. The opening sections describe how Canadian legal education is globally unique because of the tacit agreement between law schools and the legal profession that limits the number of law school seats in Canada and helps ensure the success of law schools and law students. On the fortieth anniversary of the Arthurs Report, the article concludes that legal education in Canada is overdue for a new mapping of its strengths, challenges, and future directions that takes the ambition, breadth, and collaborative approach of the Arthurs Report as an inspiration. L’auteure de cet article jette un regard sur les défis qui se posent pour les facultés de droit au Canada, et fait la comparaison entre l’état actuel des choses et l’état des lieux en 1983 d’après l’analyse du rapport Arthurs. Dans les premières parties, l’auteure décrit ce qui rend le système canadien d’enseignement du droit unique au monde : l’entente tacite entre les facultés et la profession juridique qui limite le nombre de places sur les bancs des facultés de droit au pays contribue au succès des facultés comme des étudiants. Soulignant les quarante ans du rapport Arthurs, l’auteure conclut que l’enseignement du droit au Canada est mûr pour une redéfinition de ses forces, de ses difficultés et de ses orientations futures, avec comme point de départ l’ambition, l’envergure et l’optique de collaboration exprimées dans le rapport Arthurs

How the Charter Has Failed Non-Citizens in Canada – Reviewing Thirty Years of Supreme Court of Canada Jurisprudence

This paper presents a study of all of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Charter-era jurisprudence addressing the rights of non-citizens. It traces the jurisprudential evolution from early decisions strongly supportive of non-citizens’ rights claims, to more recent rulings where non-citizens’ rights claims are rejected, sidelined or even ignored. Patterns in decision making are discernible and the decline in protections for non-citizens follows logically enough from a series of interpretive stances made relatively early on. There is evidence here of what I have termed ‘Charter hubris.’ This is a leading factor in explaining the current state of affairs, which works alongside other explanations such as the traditionally broad ambit of discretion in immigration matters and the securitization of all immigration matters in the early twenty-first century

Chief Justice Lamer\u27s Leadership in Feminist Times

In this paper, the author constructs a feminist retrospective on Chief Justice Antonio Lamer\u27s career in three stages. First, she reviews the content of his written decisions from a feminist perspective. Second, she looks at his position in a number of the key decisions for feminists, and finally she looks briefly at the evolution in Chief Justice Lamer\u27s writing about sexual assault during his time on the bench. At each stage the author aims to clearly describe her methodology and evidence relied upon, allowing readers to reach their own conclusion regarding Justice Lamer\u27s engagement with feminist legal argument

Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law

This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under the pressures of globalizing forces, migration law is transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration and informs the shape this crackdown is taking. It also means that migration law reflects key facets of globalization and addresses the central debates of globalization theory. This book looks at various migration law settings, asserting that differing but related globalization effects are discernible at each location. The ‘core samples’ interrogated in the book are drawn from refugee law, illegal labor migration, human trafficking, security issues in migration law, and citizenship law. Special attention is paid to the roles played by the European Union and the United States in setting the terms of global engagement. The book’s conclusion considers what the rule of law contributes to transformed migration law. • Of interest across a range of disciplines, certainly not just law • Brings together questions that are often treated separately. e.g. refugee law, citizenship law, illegal labor migration etc. • Contributes to the field of globalization theor