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Past projects

This page contains a non-exhaustive list of research projects that members of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism have worked on in previous years.

2018

Recognizing and Protecting the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Efforts to Combat Climate Change (2018-2020)

  • Researcher: Sébastien Jodoin

2017

Legal Mapping Database of Transnational Uses of International Labour Law (2017-2020)

The Cosmopolitan Justice of International Law

  • Researcher: Evan Fox-Decent

2016

IMPACTS: A Multi-Sector Partnership to Investigate and Develop Policy and Practice Models to Dismantle "Rape Culture" in Universities (2016-2023)

  • Researchers: many co-investigators including Shaheen Shariff, Nandini Ramanujam, Colleen Sheppard, Marie Manikis.
  • Web page

Strengthening Justice for International Crimes: A Canadian Partnership (2016-2019)

  • Researchers: Frédéric Mégret, Payam Akhavan and others.
  • Published paper: (2017)
  • Book Chapter: The International Court and Complementarity: From Theory to Practice (Cambridge, 2018)
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Children and Families Affected by War: A Tri-Pillared Approach (2019-2020)

  • Researcher: Miriam Denov

2015

Mental Health Information Privacy & Equality in the Workplace Project (2015-2018)

  • Researchers: Derek J Jones, Colleen Sheppard, Eliza Bateman, Joanna Richardson

Special Issue of the Oñati Socio-legal Series: Indignation, Socio- Economic Inequality and the Role of Law (2015)

  • Researchers: Jane Matthews Glenn (CHRLP) Anneke Smit (Windsor) Véronique Fortin (Berkeley)
  • Co-researcher: Colleen Sheppard (Director, CHRLP)
  • Published special issue:

Economic Justice Working Group

  • Researchers: Colleen Sheppard, Nandini Ramanujam, Francois Crépeau, Adelle Blackett, Jane M. Glenn, Alana Klein and Catherine Lu

Born of War: The Perspectives, Rights and Needs of Children Born of Wartime Sexual Violence (2015-2020)

  • Researchers: Myriam Denov, René Provost, Sara Kahn
  • Published book: (2017)
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The International Organization for Migration: Understanding a rising humanitarian actor (2015-2020)

  • Researcher: Meghan Bradley
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Seeking Justice after Natural Disasters (2015-2017)

  • Researcher: Meghan Bradley
  • Published paper:

From beneficiaries to actors: Understanding displaced persons' roles in resolution processes (2015-2016)

  • Researcher: Megan Bradley
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Law and the Regulation of the Senses: Exploring in Sensori-Legal Studies (2015-2019)

  • Researchers: David Howes and others
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Insurgent Justice (2015-2018)

  • Researcher: René Provost

2014

Centaur Jurisprudence Research Project

  • Researchers: René Provost (CHRLP), Kirsten Anker (CHRLP), David Howes (Concordia), Eric Reiter (Concordia)
  • Project Description
  • Published book: (2016)

Define the Line: Clarifying the Blurred Lines Between Cyberbullying and Digital Citizenship

  • Researchers: Shaheen Shariff (Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill), Shauna Van Praagh (CHRLP)

Securitization of migration asylum in Canada: A Comparative analysis of policy consequences and human rights impact (2014-2018)

  • Researcher: François Crépeau

2013

Religious Revival in a Post-Multicultural Age.

  • Research Initiative co-researched with Tel Aviv University
  • Researchers: René Provost, Shauna Van Praagh, Angela Campbell, and Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli
  • Published paper: Caylee Hong and René Provost, “” (January 17, 2013).

Legacies of Injustice and Residential Schools: Responsibilities and Relationships through the Lens of Law

  • Researchers: Colleen Sheppard, Kirsten Anker, and Mark Antaki with the collaboration of Evan Fox-Decent
  • The Centre prepared three working papers for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

2012

Rule of Law and Economic Development (2012-Present)

Mental Health and Human Rights (2012)

  • Researchers: François Crépeau and Anne-Claire Gayet
  • Published book chapter: “” in Mental Health and Human Rights. Vision, praxis, and courage, Michael Dudley, Derrick Silove, and Fran Gale, ed (Oxford University Press: 2012)

2011

Labor Law and Development: Perspectives on Labor Regulation in Africa and the African Diaspora (2011)

  • Researcher: Adelle Blackett
  • Special journal issue published in with Adelle Blackett (guest editor), Dzodzi Tsikata, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, Diamond Ashiagbor and Chantal Thomas

The Idea of Labour Law and its Relationship to the Market (2011)

  • Published book chapter: Adelle Blackett, “Emancipation in the Idea of Labour Law”, The Idea of Labour Law, edited by Davidov and Langille, Oxford UP 2011.

Informal formality: tenantries, ejidos and family land

  • Published paper: Jane Matthews Glenn, “” (2008) 4 International Journal of Law in Context 135

Regulating Decent Work for Domestic Workers / Réguler le travail décent pour les travailleuses domestiques (2011)

  • Special Journal issue edited by Adelle Blackett and published in (2011) 23: 1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit, University of Toronto Press.

The Refugee Law Reader

  • Researcher: François Crépeau
  • See the  for more details
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