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• The relationship between bilateral investment treaty arbitration and the Wider Corpus of International Law: the ICSID approach.

... of international law may have a major impact on the result of the arbitration. In fact, it coul... company to complete an environmental impact study; and (3) that an employee of the agency transferre...

• University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review
• Vol. 65 Nbr. 2, March 2007

• Getting Knock On the Head Can Be a Dangerous Affair

What had happened? Our brains aren't firmly attached by screws inside the head. So a sudden hit to the head throws the brain against the skull. But [Natasha Richardson]'s death shows that, if we have an unlucky day, this impact may cause rupture of blood vessels that surround the brain. When bleeding begins, continues, and is not diagnosed, the increased pressure of the blood causes injury to the brain, and death can occur unless surgery is done to stop the hemorrhage. Today the number of TBIs is likely to increase and, unlike Natasha Richardson's, they will not make headline news. So as the NHL hockey season begins, we will again hear about the "big hits" in our national sport that have become violent. Concussion causes a variety of symptoms such as headache, double vision and a feelin...

...But this comes with a price. A study showed 86 per cent of all hockey injuries among pl...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• October 15, 2009

• Neuropsychology As a (Psycho)Social Science: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice

I turn now to our investigations of children with LD that have led to the establishment of reliable and valid subtypes of psychosocial functioning in persons with LD. A notation before doing so: it has become abundantly clear that LD are, essentially, disorders in brain functioning. This evidence is summarised in the following: [Collins] and Rourke (2003); Dool, Stelmack, and Rourke (1993); [Robert Stelmack], Rourke, and van der Vlugt (1995). There can be no serious debate about developmental lag versus brain deficit in this area (Rourke, 1975; 1976). Or, worse, the characterisation of these disabilities as "differences in learning style." There is no doubt that persons with LD exhibit stylistic differences in their learning. But, those are "forced upon" persons with LD because their br...

...The investigations of the psychological impact of traumatically induced brain injuries in soldier...In this study, we demonstrated that the psychosocial consequence...

• Canadian Psychology
• Vol. 49 Nbr. 1, February 2008