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A selection of recent publications relating to parliamentary studies prepared with the assistance of the Library of Parliament (March 2015-May 2015)

Agarwal, Ranjan. "Where there is no remedy, there is no right: using Charter damages to compensate victims of racial profiling." National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 34, No. 1, (April 2015), 75-98.

* In appraising the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Vancouver (City) v. Ward, the authors contend it can be a powerful judicial tool used to compensate victims of racial profiling.

Bateman, Thomas M.J. "The other shoe to drop: Marc Nadon and judicial appointment politics in post-Charter Canada." Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, Vol 9, (March 2015), 169-87.

* The author explores how the Nadon affair took Canadian judicial appointment politics to new heights as increasing judicial power leads to increasing attention to judicial appointment.

Bochel, Hugh. "New mechanisms of independent accountability: select committees and parliamentary scrutiny of the intelligence services." Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 2, (April 2015), 314-31.

* The article explores how select committees scrutinise intelligence issues and the impact of potential changes in status of the Intelligence and Security Committee.

Bond, Jennifer. "Failure to report: the manifestly unconstitutional nature of the Human Smugglers Act." Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 2, (Winter 2014), 377-425.

* Using the Human Smugglers Act as a case study, the author explores what happens when a government tables legislation that is highly controversial not only for reasons of ideology or policy, but also because it almost certainly violates the Charter.

Broschek, Jorg. "Pathways of federal reform: Australia, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland." Publius, Vol. 45, (Winter 2015), 51-76.

* The article explores patterns of institutional reform in four countries since the early 1990s.

Brown, Eleanor. "These laws are the worst!" Canadian Lawyer, Vol. 39, No.2 (February 2015), 32-7.

* The author presents a selection of books full of badly written, nonsensical, and outdated laws.

Douglas, James F. "The Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013: an act of encouragement, not enforcement." Modern Law Review, Vol. 78, (March 2015), 324-48.

* The article reviews legislation which adopted a 'soft opt-out' system to replace a previous requirement of express 'appropriate' consent for organ donation under the Human Tissue Act 2004."

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