Linda C Reif

University of Alberta | UAlberta · Faculty of Law

Azadeh Chalabi, National Human Rights Action Planning (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018), ISBN 978-0-19-882284-4, 251 pp. - Linda C. REIF

National human rights institutions (NHRIs) fully compliant with the United Nations (UN) Paris Principles are important actors for implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (GPs). Their work is facilitated by networked governance including the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, the global network of...

The number of human rights ombudsman institutions has increased dramatically over the past three decades. Such institutions are prevalent in Latin America and in Central and Eastern Europe, and are increasingly found in other regions of the world as well. Forces such as democratization, public institution-building, comparative law influences, limit...

Introduction NHRIs and related institutions for the protection and promotion of human rights are horizontal accountability state institutions that provide checks and balances on government conduct. Most of them do not have the power to impose their own decisions on the government. Instead, they are given a range of soft powers, from advice and reco...

An ombudsman can be categorised as a classical or human rights ombudsman institution. Both address the protection of children and their rights in investigations and other ombudsman activities. Case studies explore the child protection work of classical ombudsman (Ontario and British Columbia, Canada; New South Wales, Australia) and human rights omb...

National Human Rights i nstitutions [NHRIs] are created by “a Government under the constitution, or by law or decree, the functions of which are specifically designed in terms of the promotion and protection of human rights.” Human rights commissions, ombudsman i nstitutions, hybrid single-office holder human rights ombudsman/commissioners, and spe...

The international trade law area is an arena where international tribunals are increasingly being used for the settlement of disputes. The Canada–U.S. softwood lumber dispute is a key example of how trade disputes have been made even more convoluted and intractable by the availability of multiple international and domestic fora for dispute settleme...

This Information Bulletin provides an Alberta perspective and assessment of the results and prospects of the current Doha Development Round of the WTO in the wake of the December 2005 Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong. The outcomes at Doha were modest but worthy of attention since Alberta’s economy depends so much upon international trade. Anderson...

As described in Chapter 1, there have been various adaptations of the legislative ombudsman around the world at the national and sub-national levels of government. Over the past few decades, the ombudsman concept has been expanded into other areas, in both the public and private sectors, and even into the international or supranational level of gov...

Published under the auspices of the American Society of International Law. We would highly recommend this book for purchase. It is a valuable addition to any international law library. Int' l J. of Legal Information, Vol. 27, No.1 This is the second volume to grow out of the cooperative research sponsored by the ASIL, the Canadian Council on Intern...

The authors seek to highlight the office of the ombudsman, which represents a potentially powerful form of alternative dispute resolution. They first examine the "classic" ombudsman. This ombudsman is basically a neutral party who decides which side is justified in a dispute. They examine how Canadian ombudsman legislation ensures that many of the...

C. Reif, Not to be reproduced without consent of author Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A.—the three parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 1 and the accompanying environmental and labour agreements (NAAEC and NAALC) 2 —are also parties to a growing number of multilateral and bilateral trade and investment treaties. These agreements...

This Article will examine the use of conciliation as a mechanism for the resolution of disputes arising out of trade, investment, and other business relationships in this broadly framed transnational system. Part I presents an overview of dispute resolution methods. Part II provides a definition of “international conciliation.” Part III discusses t...