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Selected Publications from SRAC Members

Bruce Porter

Bruce Porter,  The Reasonableness Of Article 8(4) – Adjudicating Claims From The Margins,’ Nordic Journal of Human Rights (NJHR), Vol. 27, No.1:2009. Special issue: Perspectives on a New Complaint and Inquiry Procedure: The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  (Malcolm Langford, guest editor) pp. 39 – 53.

Bruce Porter & Martha Jackman, "Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights in Canada" in M. Langford, ed., Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in Comparative International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Bruce Porter,  “Justiciability of ESC Rights and The Right to Effective Remedies: Historic Challenges and New Opportunities”  in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR, (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 2008); Chinese Translation

Bruce Porter, " Claiming Adjudicative Space: Social Rights, Equality and Citizenship " in Susan Boyd, Gwen Brodsky, Shelagh Day and Margot Young, eds., Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007).

Bruce Porter, ' Expectations of Equality ' (2006) 33 Supreme Court Law Review 23.

Bruce Porter, " Socio-Economic Rights in a domestic charter of rights - a Canadian perspective " in Human Rights and Peace-Building in Northern Ireland: an international anthology (Committee on the Administration of Justice: Belfast, January 2006)

Bruce Porter & Aoife Nolan, "
The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights: An Updated Appraisal " (January 2006) Just News.

Bruce Porter, " Toward a Comprehensive Framework for ESC Rights Practice, revised and updated version of 'The Crisis in ESC Rights and Strategies for Addressing It " in Bret Thiele and Malcolm Langford, eds., Litigation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: The State of Play (Sydney: University of South Wales Press, 2005).

Bruce Porter, "
Canadian Constitutional Challenge to NAFTA Raises Critical Issues of Human Rights in Trade and Investment Regimes " (2005) 2 ESC Law Quarterly.

Bruce Porter, "
A Right to Healthcare only if You Can Pay for it " (2005) 6 ESR Review.

Bruce Porter, "
Twenty Years of Equality Rights: Reclaiming Expectations " (2005) 23 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 145 [in English and French].

Bruce Porter, "
ReWriting the Charter at 20 or Reading it Right: The Challenge of Poverty and Homelessness in Canada " in Wesley Cragg & Christine Koggel, eds., Contemporary Moral Issues, 5th ed., (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2005) 373.

Bruce Porter, "
The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada " (Paper presented to the Inter-American Human Rights Commission Special Hearings on the Right to Housing, Washington, D.C., March 4, 2005).

Bruce Porter, "
The Right to be Heard: What's at Stake ?" (Paper Presented to the High Level Expert Seminar on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Paper presented to the French Department of Foreign Affairs, Nantes, France September 5 & 7, 2005).

Bruce Porter, Aofie Nolan & Malcolm Langford, "
The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights: an Updated Appraisal " (Paper presented to the Human Rights Consortium of Northern Ireland, Belfast, Ireland, November 20, 2005).

Bruce Porter, "
Social and Economic Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms " (Paper presented to the International Conference on Social and Economic Rights: Models of Enforcement, hosted by the Irish Human Rights Commission, Dublin, Ireland, December 10-11, 2005).

Bruce Porter, "
Homelessness, Human Rights, Litigation and Law Reform: A View from Canada " (2004) 10 Australian Journal of Human Rights 133.

Bruce Porter, "
The Human Right to Adequate Housing: Making the Case in U.S. Advocacy " (2004) 38 Clearinghouse Review: Journal of Poverty Law and Policy 97.

Bruce Porter,"
The Domestic Implementation of the ICESCR:The Right to Effective Remedies, the Role of Courts and the Place of the Claimants of ESC Rights." Remarks for the Workshop for Judges and Lawyers in North East Asia on the Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights hosted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the International Commission of Jurists (Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia, January 26-28, 2004).

Bruce Porter, Poverty and the Courts Keynote Address by invitation of the National Judicial Institute to Judges of the Ontario Superior Court (Niagara Falls, May 7, 2004)


Martha Jackman

Martha Jackman, Under the Knife? Charter Equality and the Right to Publicly Funded Health Care, (in progress).

Martha Jackman, Socio-Economic Rights in Canada, in M. Langford, ed., Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence: Emerging Trends in Comparative International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) (with Bruce Porter).

Martha Jackman, "The Last Line of Defence for [Which?] Citizens" : Accountability, Equality and the Right to Health in Chaoulli (2006) 44 Osgoode Hall L.J. , 349-75.

Martha Jackman, Reality Checks: Presuming Innocence and Proving Guilt in the Charter Welfare Context , in S. Boyd, G. Brodsky, S. Day & M. Young eds, Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Governance (Vancouver: U.B.C. Press, forthcoming).

Martha Jackman, Commentary: Section 15 can help bring legitimacy to our democracy, (18 August 2006) 26:14 Lawyers Weekly 11.

Martha Jackman, Sommes nous dignes? Légalité et l'arrêt Gosselin (2006) 15 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit 161-76.

Martha Jackman, Misdiagnosis or Cure? Charter Review of the Health Care System in C.M. Flood, ed., Just Medicare: What's In, What's Out, How We Decide (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 58-79.

To the top! Martha Jackman, L'égalité réelle dans le contexte des droits linguistiques , in A. Braën, P. Foucher & Y. LeBouthillier, eds, Languages, Consitutionalism and Minorities/Langues, constitutionnalisme et minorités (Toronto: Butterworths, 2006) 629-34.

Martha Jackman, Canadian Charter Equality at Twenty: Reflections of a Card-carrying Member of the Court Party (Dec.2005-Jan.2006) 27:1 Policy Options 72-77.

Martha Jackman, Section 7 of the Charter Charter and Health-Care Spending, in G.P. Marchildon, T. McIntosh & P.-G. Forest eds, The Fiscal Sustainability of Health Care in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004) 110-136.

Martha Jackman, L'article 7 de la Charte et les dépenses en soins de santé, dans G.P. Marchildon, T. McIntosh & P.-G. Forest réds, L'avenir fiscal du système de santé canadien, Ottawa, Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004, 124-53.

Martha Jackman, The Implications of section 7 of the Charter for Health Care Spending in Canada: Discussion Paper No. 31 (Saskatoon: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, 2002) 24pp.

Martha Jackman, Report of the Independent Panel on Access Criteria (Ottawa: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2002) 99pp. (with Arthur Kroeger, Paul LeBlond, Gordon Munro and David Newhouse).

Martha Jackman, The Application of the Canadian Charter in the Health Care Context (2001) 9 Health Law Review 22-26.

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