Michael Trebilcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 146907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Trebilcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Trebilcock |
| SIGNATURE | TREBILCOCK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9285-4470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 48 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reshaping the Mosaic
A valuable resource for students, policymakers, advocates, and general readers, Reshaping the Mosaic offers a comprehensive analysis of Canadian immigration policy, exploring its historical foundations and contemporary challenges.
The Anatomy of the Rise and Demise of the World Trading System
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Existential threats
This article considers the optimal structure of institutions that respond to existential threats such as climate change and pandemics. While science must play a central role in guiding policy responses, there are many values at stake that ought to be reflected in institutional design. There is a distinction between risk assessment, a science‐driven analysis in these contexts, and risk management, in which trade‐offs are considered in responding t…
The New Progressivism and its implications for institutional theories of development
The Puzzle of Canadian Exceptionalism in Contemporary Immigration Policy
Middle Income Access to Justice
Between universalism and relativism
This paper traces the evolution in thinking among scholars and development agencies with respect to the relationship between law and development in the post-war period, in the context of the rise and fall of universal themes of development. For much of this period, universal theories of development prevailed, beginning with various versions of modernization, state-led theories of development that prevailed in the first three post-war decades and …
An economic analysis of waiver of tort in negligence actions
The legal status, scope, and policy implications of the waiver of tort doctrine have been a prominent, controversial, and unresolved feature of many recent class action proceedings in Canada, especially in products liability cases, where plaintiffs have sought to claim disgorgement of profits or revenues as an alternative to proof of damage or injury. The doctrine in recent years has been invoked frequently by plaintiffs in negligence class actio…
Infrastructure Public–Private Partnerships in the Developing World
Seeking to address inefficient and costly infrastructure delivery, governments over the past two decades have turned to public–private partnerships (PPPs) to build and operate infrastructure. The key characteristic of PPPs is the outsourcing and ‘bundling’ of project delivery components (for example, design, build, finance, operate), structured to incentivise the builder-operator to incorporate long-term operating cost considerations in the desig…
Rethinking the Welfare State
Rethinking the Welfare State offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of social welfare policy in an international context, with a particular emphasis on the US and Canada.The authors investigate the claim that a decentralized delivery of government supported goods and services enables policy objectives to be achieved in a more innovative and efficient way, but at a lower cost. Secondly they examine the effectiveness of the voucher system …
Response to Kevin Kolben on Bilateralism, Trade Preferences, and Market Abuse
Professor Kolben’s paper provides an extremely illuminating description and analysis of labour market abuses in the textile and garment industry that developed in Jordan after the US unilaterally extended trade preferences to Jordan in 1996 and extended them in a free trade agreement with Jordan in 2001. These trade preferences led to the rapid development of a textile and garment industry in Jordan from next to nothing, despite Jordan’s apparent…
Police Reform in Violent Democracies in Latin America
The Legacy of Empire
In this Article, we examine the colonial experiences of eight formerly British-controlled territories—Barbados, Jamaica, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Burma, and Singapore—to identify how the processes and policies of the colonial enterprise affected their respective contemporary rule of law outcomes. While acknowledging the legal origins thesis that the British transplantation of the common law to its colonial territories conferred upon such …
Path Dependence, Development, and the Dynamics of Institutional Reform
In the past decade, an institutional perspective on development has become increasingly prominent in development thinking. However, the reform experience thus far suggests that if institutions indeed matter for development, we still do not have a firm understanding of how to transforms dysfunctional institutions. Drawing on concrete examples of rule of law and property rights reforms, we argue that path dependence theory can shed some light on pa…
The Evolution of Resource Property Rights by ANTHONY SCOTT
Between Institutions and Culture
The four Arab Human Development Reports, 2002-2005, sponsored by the United Nations Development Program and written by over one hundred Arab scholars based in the Middle East and elsewhere, have attracted more attention and controversy than any other official studies of development in recent years. The Reports are controversial in at least two respects: First, they adopt a conception of development as freedom that excludes all economic variables.…
The Relationship between Law and Development
Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest, on the part of both academics and practitioners, in using law to promote development in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. The level of academic interest in the topic is reflected in the publication of three recent books on law and development by prominent American scholars: Thomas Carothers (ed.), PROMOTING THE RULE OF LAW ABROAD: IN SEARCH O…
The Design of Regulatory Institutions for the Canadian Telecommunications Sector
As the result of competition arising from new technology, extensive economic regulation of the telecommunications industry has become less appropriate over time. In this article we consider corresponding institutional reform. Both the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and the Competition Bureau/Tribunal are presently involved in telecom regulation. We propose a framework in which there is a clearer division of res…
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Bronislaw Malinowski's *Argonauts of the Western Pacific*, first published in 1922, is a foundational work in anthropology. It details Malinowski's extensive ethnographic research conducted between 1914 and 1918 among the Trobriand Islanders of Melanesia. The book focuses on the Kula ring, a complex system of ceremonial exchange involving the circulation of shell valuables (necklaces and armbands) across a vast network of islands. Malinowski meti…
Legal reforms and development
This paper canvasses the theoretical and empirical literature concerning the role that legal institutions play in development. The first part outlines six influential theoretical perspectives on development and their implications for the relationship between law and development. The second part surveys the relevant empirical literature. There is surprisingly little conclusive evidence that reforms in particular substantive areas of law such as pr…
Rationality in Public Policy
The Making of the Mosaic
The Limits of the Full Court Press
Contracting–out social services
Despite the enormous share of social services in government spending and the strong incentives on government to rationalize services, the alternative service delivery (asd) literature has given little attention to social–service delivery. In our paper, we review current approaches taken to social–service delivery in Ontario by the Ministry of Community and Social Services (mcss). Although the mcss retains responsibility for the social–services sy…
The Regulation of International Trade
Police Reform in Violent Democracies in Latin America
Path Dependence, Development, and the Dynamics of Institutional Reform
In the past decade, an institutional perspective on development has become increasingly prominent in development thinking. However, the reform experience thus far suggests that if institutions indeed matter for development, we still do not have a firm understanding of how to transforms dysfunctional institutions. Drawing on concrete examples of rule of law and property rights reforms, we argue that path dependence theory can shed some light on pa…
The Relationship between Law and Development
Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest, on the part of both academics and practitioners, in using law to promote development in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. The level of academic interest in the topic is reflected in the publication of three recent books on law and development by prominent American scholars: Thomas Carothers (ed.), PROMOTING THE RULE OF LAW ABROAD: IN SEARCH O…
An Economic Analysis of Limited Liability in Corporation Law
The Puzzle of Canadian Exceptionalism in Contemporary Immigration Policy
The Regulation of International Trade
The Legacy of Empire
In this Article, we examine the colonial experiences of eight formerly British-controlled territories—Barbados, Jamaica, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya, India, Burma, and Singapore—to identify how the processes and policies of the colonial enterprise affected their respective contemporary rule of law outcomes. While acknowledging the legal origins thesis that the British transplantation of the common law to its colonial territories conferred upon such …
Legal reforms and development
This paper canvasses the theoretical and empirical literature concerning the role that legal institutions play in development. The first part outlines six influential theoretical perspectives on development and their implications for the relationship between law and development. The second part surveys the relevant empirical literature. There is surprisingly little conclusive evidence that reforms in particular substantive areas of law such as pr…
Contracting–out social services
Despite the enormous share of social services in government spending and the strong incentives on government to rationalize services, the alternative service delivery (asd) literature has given little attention to social–service delivery. In our paper, we review current approaches taken to social–service delivery in Ontario by the Ministry of Community and Social Services (mcss). Although the mcss retains responsibility for the social–services sy…
Smaller or Smarter Government
Robert Howse, J. Robert S. Prichard, Michael J. Trebilcock, Smaller or Smarter Government?, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, Special Issue on Administrative Law (Summer, 1990), pp. 498-541
Communal Property Rights
Existential threats
This article considers the optimal structure of institutions that respond to existential threats such as climate change and pandemics. While science must play a central role in guiding policy responses, there are many values at stake that ought to be reflected in institutional design. There is a distinction between risk assessment, a science‐driven analysis in these contexts, and risk management, in which trade‐offs are considered in responding t…
The Limits of the Full Court Press
Private Provision of Public Infrastructure
Constrained by severe, ongoing fiscal pressures and sensitive to concerns over bureaucratic inefficiency, policy-makers in a number of countries are re-evaluating both the goals and instruments of the modern state. In doing so, some have endorsed the need for government 'reinvention,' a term that is admittedly susceptible of a broad range of meanings, but which nonetheless contemplates a significant shift away from reliance on governmental provis…
Trade and Transitions
The Political Economy of Economic Adjustment
Economic Mobility and Constitutional Reform
The Doctrine of Inequality of Bargaining Power
The Doctrine of Inequality of Bargaining Power
The Professions and Public Policy
An Economic Analysis of Limited Liability in Corporation Law
Compensation, Transition Costs, and Regulatory Change
Public Strategy and Motion Pictures
Lawyers and the Consumer Interest
Communal Property Rights
Products Liability and the Allergic Consumer
The Political Economy of Economic Adjustment
The Political Economy of Business Bailouts
ment funding is further undercut in Chapter Ten. This chapter examines issues of equity and concludes that subsidies to the performing arts are, on balance, income regressive. Chapter Eleven offers West's policy conclusions. He is reluctant to call for cutbacks in government funding of the performing arts; however, he sees the evidence as strongly rejecting arguments for increased 'supply side' funding. Rather, West supports a change in policy di…
Economic Mobility and Constitutional Reform
Incentive Issues in the Design of 'No-Fault' Compensation Systems
Smaller or Smarter Government
Robert Howse, J. Robert S. Prichard, Michael J. Trebilcock, Smaller or Smarter Government?, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 40, No. 3, Special Issue on Administrative Law (Summer, 1990), pp. 498-541
The Law and Economics of Competition Policy
The Role of Private Ordering in Family Law
Trade and Transitions
Doing Away with Personal Injury Law
Foreword by Jeffrey O'Connell Introduction The Failure of Tort Law The Safety Goal The Compensation Goal The Justice Goal and Other Illusionary Goals Current Reform Ideas--False Starts Curtailing Victims' Rights No-Fault Alternatives to Tort Better Ideas A Comprehensive Compensation Strategy Safety Regulation without Accident Law A Substantial First Step Tort Reform by Contract Conclusion Bibliography Index
Protecting the Employment Bargain
Robert Howse, Michael J. Trebilcock, Protecting the Employment Bargain, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 43, No. 3, Special Issue on Corporate Stakeholder Debate: The Classical Theory and Its Critics (Summer, 1993), pp. 751-792
Justice in Immigration
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the fundamental normative issues underpinning immigration policy. Economists, political scientists and philosophers address issues such as the proper role of the state in supporting a particular culture, the possible destabilization of the political and social life of a country through immigration, the size and distribution of economic losses and gains, and the legitimacy of discriminating against potent…
The Limits of Freedom of Contract and the Limits of Contract Theory
The Regulation of International Trade
Getting There
Private Provision of Public Infrastructure
Constrained by severe, ongoing fiscal pressures and sensitive to concerns over bureaucratic inefficiency, policy-makers in a number of countries are re-evaluating both the goals and instruments of the modern state. In doing so, some have endorsed the need for government 'reinvention,' a term that is admittedly susceptible of a broad range of meanings, but which nonetheless contemplates a significant shift away from reliance on governmental provis…
The Second Wave of Law and Economics
The Limits of the Full Court Press
Economics (37 works) · Political science (37 works) · Law (32 works) · Business (25 works) · Law (25 works) · Law and economics (17 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public Administration (7 works)