Michael J Trebilcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 5756820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Trebilcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Trebilcock |
| SIGNATURE | TREBILCOCK M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Faculty of LawUniversity of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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
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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…
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 …
What Makes Poor Countries Poor?
This important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.
The Evolution of Resource Property Rights by ANTHONY SCOTT
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…
Bilateral Ecopolitics
"An important read for academics and policy-makers alike, Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas. This key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law and trade, environment and labour values in the WTO and NAFTA, and in the prospective Millennium Round. Then, using the forestry sector - a realm where formal internati…
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 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
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…
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
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
The Role of Private Ordering in Family Law
Trade and Transitions
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
Incentive Issues in the Design of 'No-Fault' Compensation Systems
Economic Mobility and Constitutional Reform
Lawyers and the Consumer Interest
Communal Property Rights
Public Strategy and Motion Pictures
The Regulation of International Trade
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
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
Economic Mobility and Constitutional Reform
The Professions and Public Policy
Compensation, Transition Costs, and Regulatory Change
Public Strategy and Motion Pictures
Lawyers and the Consumer Interest
Communal Property Rights
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 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
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 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…
Rationality in Public Policy
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…
Bilateral Ecopolitics
"An important read for academics and policy-makers alike, Hard Choices, Soft Law asserts that voluntary standards, or 'soft' law, are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas. This key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law and trade, environment and labour values in the WTO and NAFTA, and in the prospective Millennium Round. Then, using the forestry sector - a realm where formal internati…
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…
The Evolution of Resource Property Rights by ANTHONY SCOTT
What Makes Poor Countries Poor?
This important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.
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 …
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…
Political science (20 works) · Business (17 works) · Economics (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Compensation (psychology (3 works)