In May 2015, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was released from the Bowden Institution in Alberta. Khadr’s return to society followed 14 years of incarceration for an act that he may not have committed, which may not have been a crime, which took place while he was technically a child, and which was judged by a military tribunal that has questionable status in Canadian law. This article argues that Khadr’s long imprisonment was a political decision by US and Canadian authorities that required them to use performativity to suspend the law, depriving Khadr of his rights under American law, the Canadian Charter, and various protocols of international law. This use of performance to undermine law exposes a performative gap in the law: ...
Saudi human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist Waleed Abu Al-Khair was convicted for “inciting...
Traditional analyses of Canada’s behaviour on international human rights tend to view it through the...
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who, after having his name added to various anti-terroris...
In May 2015, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was released from the Bowden Institution in A...
The Supreme Court of Canada judgment in Khadr rules that the Charter applies to the actions of Canad...
In July 2017, the Government of Canada reportedly paid Omar Khadr $10.5 million to settle his civil ...
The question of the extra-territorial reach of Canada’s international human rights obligations, as e...
Omar Khadr, age 15 and a citizen of Canada, was given emergency medical care for near-fatal gun-shot...
This essay explores the intersections and tensions between international human rights law and intern...
This article is about the rise and fall of continued adherence to the rule of law, proper applicatio...
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who, after having his name added to various anti-terroris...
This article, after giving a brief history of the Moussaoui case, identifies the main paradoxes or p...
This paper examines Giorgio Agamben’s work on the state of exception, a top-down approach in which t...
From June of 2004, through June of 2007, I represented Omar Khadr, a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cub...
The International Criminal Court convicted Al Mahdi of offences relating to cultural property under ...
Saudi human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist Waleed Abu Al-Khair was convicted for “inciting...
Traditional analyses of Canada’s behaviour on international human rights tend to view it through the...
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who, after having his name added to various anti-terroris...
In May 2015, former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was released from the Bowden Institution in A...
The Supreme Court of Canada judgment in Khadr rules that the Charter applies to the actions of Canad...
In July 2017, the Government of Canada reportedly paid Omar Khadr $10.5 million to settle his civil ...
The question of the extra-territorial reach of Canada’s international human rights obligations, as e...
Omar Khadr, age 15 and a citizen of Canada, was given emergency medical care for near-fatal gun-shot...
This essay explores the intersections and tensions between international human rights law and intern...
This article is about the rise and fall of continued adherence to the rule of law, proper applicatio...
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who, after having his name added to various anti-terroris...
This article, after giving a brief history of the Moussaoui case, identifies the main paradoxes or p...
This paper examines Giorgio Agamben’s work on the state of exception, a top-down approach in which t...
From June of 2004, through June of 2007, I represented Omar Khadr, a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cub...
The International Criminal Court convicted Al Mahdi of offences relating to cultural property under ...
Saudi human rights lawyer and pro-democracy activist Waleed Abu Al-Khair was convicted for “inciting...
Traditional analyses of Canada’s behaviour on international human rights tend to view it through the...
Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who, after having his name added to various anti-terroris...