Jamie Cassels
Biographic Data
| ID | 3949445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Cassels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cassels |
| SIGNATURE | CASSELS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Uncertain Promise of Law
This paper describes the course of the litigation following the Bhopal disaster.It begins with a brief description of the various failures in risk assessment and management that gave rise to the hazardous conditions in Bhopal, and then describes in more detail the resulting legal proceedings.Specifying a number of modest criteria against which the success of the litigation can be measured, the paper examines why traditional tort processes are unl…
Critical Legal Education
This essay explores the possibilities within Canadian legal education for the development of critical skills, attitudes and practices. It examines the structure and organizational culture of law school, and analyses the assumptions underlying the dominant model of legal knowledge. The conclusion drawn is that at every level, legal education teaches political values, and rewards personal characteristics that are conducive to the preservation of th…
Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India
Journal Article Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India: Attempting the Impossible? Get access Jamie Cassels Jamie Cassels 1Jamie Cassels is Associate Professor of Law, University of Victoria. I would like to express my gratitude to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for helping to fund this research, and to the Indian Law Institute for the use of their research facilities. I would also like to thank M…
Liberal Presuppositions
Lon Fuller
Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India
Journal Article Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India: Attempting the Impossible? Get access Jamie Cassels Jamie Cassels 1Jamie Cassels is Associate Professor of Law, University of Victoria. I would like to express my gratitude to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for helping to fund this research, and to the Indian Law Institute for the use of their research facilities. I would also like to thank M…
Critical Legal Education
This essay explores the possibilities within Canadian legal education for the development of critical skills, attitudes and practices. It examines the structure and organizational culture of law school, and analyses the assumptions underlying the dominant model of legal knowledge. The conclusion drawn is that at every level, legal education teaches political values, and rewards personal characteristics that are conducive to the preservation of th…
Lon Fuller
Liberal Presuppositions
Critical Legal Education
This essay explores the possibilities within Canadian legal education for the development of critical skills, attitudes and practices. It examines the structure and organizational culture of law school, and analyses the assumptions underlying the dominant model of legal knowledge. The conclusion drawn is that at every level, legal education teaches political values, and rewards personal characteristics that are conducive to the preservation of th…
Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India
Journal Article Judicial Activism and Public Interest Litigation in India: Attempting the Impossible? Get access Jamie Cassels Jamie Cassels 1Jamie Cassels is Associate Professor of Law, University of Victoria. I would like to express my gratitude to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for helping to fund this research, and to the Indian Law Institute for the use of their research facilities. I would also like to thank M…
The Uncertain Promise of Law
This paper describes the course of the litigation following the Bhopal disaster.It begins with a brief description of the various failures in risk assessment and management that gave rise to the hazardous conditions in Bhopal, and then describes in more detail the resulting legal proceedings.Specifying a number of modest criteria against which the success of the litigation can be measured, the paper examines why traditional tort processes are unl…
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence in Law (1 work) · Comparative and International Law Studies (1 work)