THE US SUPREME COURT will soon rule on whether Americans have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide. Lawyer Karen Capen says Canadian physicians should keep an eye on the ruling because Canada and the US have similar standards of medical practice and ethical principles. Any solution remains difficult because the gap between supporters and opponents of physician-assisted suicide i...

Lisa Ting (BA, LLB, LLM). is a lawyer who was invited to undertake a PhD candidature in the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne to investigate frameworks for legal and institutional reform of land administration systems for sustainable development. As Director of the Australia-Indonesia Legal Development Foundation, she is also involved in legal and institutional reforms in I...

This paper provides the first empirical test of the Portia Hypothesis: females with masculine monikers are more successful in legal careers. Utilizing South Carolina microdata, we look for correlation between an individual’s advancement to a judgeship and his/her name’s masculinity, which we construct from the joint empirical distribution of names and gender in the state’s entire population of ...

Introduction and Scope For many years, parties have turned to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods to resolve disputes. ADR methods allow the parties to customize the process of resolving a particular dispute. One ADR method which has emerged in recent years is commonly referred to as the Collaborative Law process. The touchtone of Collaborative Law is an advance agreement, often referr...