Refugee claimants who have received a negative decision from the Immigration and Refugee Board sometimes judicially review the decisions at the Federal Court in Canada. Previous statistical studies, in particular Sean Rehaag's (2012) study, “The Luck of the Draw”, have reported that rejected...

This article examines the duty to consult on and accommodate Aboriginal and Treaty rights in relation to law-making. In Mikisew Cree First Nation v Canada the Supreme Court of Canada recently addressed the application of this duty to parliamentary bodies and their law-making functions with a...

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) provided the first opportunity for the Trump administration to translate its “America First” trade policy into specific treaty design. In this article, we evaluate how radical these changes have been by systematically comparing the USMCA to...

The purpose of this study was to explore the role that agricultural information and communication technologies (ICTs) might play in scaling up traditional knowledge (TK)-based agricultural production, and to investigate the ways in which local communities have used ICTs to scale up TK in...

Eritrea borders the southern Red Sea in the Horn of Africa. It emerged as an Italian colonial construct in the nineteenth century, which was superimposed over indigenous populations. Eritrea's current population is between 4.4 and 5.9 million inhabitants. There are at least four indigenous...

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) form an intricate web that connects countries across the globe. In this article, we introduce a PTA text corpus and research tools for its fine-grained, automated analysis. Recent computational advances allow for efficient and effective content analysis by...

When a law purports to combat a problem, many of us take for granted that it is doing it effectively, and that it in turn is not harming people. This paper looks at one regulation that, while aiming to protecting the integrity of the immigration system, in fact erodes the humanitarian and...

Israel's education system disadvantages it's Arab citizens. I show how this occurs, and why it is in both the Jewish and Arab interests to address this problem. I describe the structure of Israel's education system, and it's convoluted funding mechanisms, particularly the processes which bring...