Graduate student defended theses

Oladele Adeniji Rights-Based Appraisal of Some Aspects of Nigerian Mental Health Laws: Perspectives from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (June 17, 2024).  Supervisor: Doug Surtees.

Theresa Olagunju RECALIBRATING THE LEGAL APPROACH TO OIL SPILL REGULATION IN NIGERIA’S NIGER DELTA REGION: INSIGHTS FROM ALBERTA ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY (May 9, 2024).  Supervisor:  Dwight Newman.

Ginikachi Okewulonu THE REGULATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN NIGERIA AND ITS EFFECT ON FREE SPEECH: PERSPECTIVES FROM CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL NORMS (December 14, 2023). Supervisor: Dwight Newman.

Victory Okondu HUMAN RIGHTS, CULTURE AND LAW: STRATEGIES TO INDIGENIZE RESPONSES TO GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN IGBO COMMUNITIES IN NIGERIA (December 6, 2023).  Supervisor: Dr. Lucinda Vandervort.

Thomas Enns CULTIVATING TREATY RELATIONSHIPS:  THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COWS AND PLOUGHS CLAUSES FOR THE NUMBERED TREATIES (October 16, 2023).  Supervisor:  Dwight Newman.

Michael Dunn  On His Majesty’s Honour: The Nature of the Crown in Indigenous Relations (May 23rd, 2023). Supervisor: Dwight Newman.

Lola Ayotunde 
PhD thesis
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ PROCEDURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AND TRANSNATIONAL INDIGENOUS ADVOCACY NETWORKS” (April 14th, 2023). Co-supervisors:  Dwight Newman & Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu.

Eseosa Omoruyi  REGULATING THE USE OF CRYPTO-ASSETS AS COLLATERAL IN SECURED TRANSACTIONS: U.S AND CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES"  (April 13th, 2023). Supervisor: Clayton Bangsund.

Brenda Yuen Trauma Informed Lawyering: Practicing Emotional Acknowledgement (January 23, 2023). Supervisor: Sarah Buhler. 

Ademola Adeyoju  STATE SURVEILLANCE, THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY, AND WHY WE MAY NEED A NEW INTERNATIONAL LAW (November 14, 2022). Supervisor: Dr. Barbara von Tigerstrom.

Feyisola Akintoye  Multilateralism and the Integration of the Sustainable Development Goals into International Investment Law (October 26, 2022). Supervisor: Professor Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu.

PHD - Amy Zarzeczny October 3, 2022
PhD thesis
Regulation and Governance of Access to Unproven Medical Interventions in Canada: A Case Study Analysis. Supervisor:  Dr. Barbara von Tigerstrom.

Mason Stott  Legislative Reform to Foster a Sustainable Orbital Launch Industry in Canada (April 2022).  Supervisor:  Robin Hansen.

Michelle Delorme  SUPPORTING PROPERTY INTERESTS ON LANDS RESERVED FOR FIRST NATIONS  (February 2022). Supervisor:  Dwight Newman.

RANKINE, Alan. Judicial Interpretation, Formal Amendment or the Ballot Box: Recognizing Civic Democracy in the Constitution of Canada (2021)
Supervisors: Felix Hoehn and Mark Carter

MALOOF, Meredith. Post-Mortem Organs and Tissue Through a Property Law Lens: How Principles of Property Law Can Guide Lawmakers to a Better Organ Donation Framework (2021)
Supervisor: Felix Hoehn.

ASUNI, Oluwadamilola (Dammy). A Comparison of the Legal and Institutional Framework for Regulating Human Rights in the Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria and Canada (2021)
Supervisor: Robin Hansen

IFEDIBA, Florence. Rethinking Canada’s Duty to Consult Doctrine: Accommodating Aboriginal Rights in the Deployment of Small Modular Reactors (2020)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman.

PEARL, Tamara. Māmawī Wīchihitowin: Colonization is not about sharing space. The Treaties are. (2020)
Supervisor: Larry Chartrand.

HITCHINGS, Scott. Personal Property Security Interests on Lands Reserved for First Nations (2020) Supervisor: Ronald C.C. Cuming.

EKOLISA, Chukwunonso. Framework for Obligations Regarding Environmental Protection and Human Rights in Nigeria's Bilateral Investment Treaties (2020)
Supervisor: Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu.

DUSEVIC, Andrew. Risk-Informed Decision Making and the Regulation of Small Modular Reactors (2019)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

PETERSON, Hilary. Applying Gladue Principles Requires Meaningful Incorporation of Indigenous Legal Systems and Values, including Consideration of Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration (2019)
Supervisor: Glen Luther

ODIONU, Gideon. Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Gas Flaring in Nigeria: Perspectives on Law and Regulation (2018)
Supervisor: Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu

EZEANI, Nnaemeka. Appropriate Legal Principles for Determination of Compensation for Infringements of Aboriginal Title in Canada (2018)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

YOUNG, Frankie. A Comprehensive Assessment of the Tax Issues Related to Indigenous Settlement Trusts (2018)
Supervisor: Tamara Larre

VEETTIL, Sheethal. Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Over Forest Resource Governance in India and Canada: Debating the Role of Decentralization (2018) 
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

HARRIS, Emily. Addressing the Needs of Patients with Rare Diseases in Canada: An Evaluation of Orphan Drug Incentives (2018)
Supervisor: Barbara von Tigerstrom

OMOTOSO, Oluwatoyin. Towards Indigenous Consent within Consultation in Resource Development: An Examination of Legal Standards for Consent on Aboriginal Title Lands (2017)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

LOWENBERGER, Brea. Operationalizing and Assessing Reflective Practice in Legal Education: A Window of Opportunity (2017)
Supervisor: Michaela Keet

ABBOTT, Christina. Street Checks and Canadian Youth: A Critical Legal Analysis (2017)
Supervisor: Sarah Buhler

FRIMPONG, Antwi. Using Technology for Access to Justice in Ghana and Canada: Examining the Digital Divide (2017) Supervisor: Sarah Buhler

ABEY, Molla. Anomaly of Existing Intellectual Property Protection for Software (2017)
Supervisor: Martin Phillipson

MILLER, Clayton. Judicial Mediation in British Columbia:  Moving Towards a More Effective Process (2017)
Supervisor: Beth Bilson

ZARMA, Rahina. The Role of the ECOWAS in Addressing the Challenges of Ineffective Regulation of Transnational Oil Corporations in Nigeria (2017)
Supervisor: Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu

PATRICK, Jamesy. Child Advocacy in Saskatchewan Child Welfare Cases: Access to Justice and Indigenous Children’s Rights (2016)
Supervisor: Wanda Wiegers

CAMPBELL, Heather. Parens Patriae 2.0: Invoking the Superior Courts’ Protective Jurisdiction to Help Lonely Older Men Age-in-place (2016)
Supervisor: Professor Doug Surtees

AYOTUNDE, Olufunmilola. Legal and Institutional Framework for Multi-Stakeholder Participation in Oil and Gas Management in Nigeria: Perspectives on the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Approach (2016)
Supervisor: Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu

ODUNTAN, Mobolanle. The Role of Taxation in Nigeria's Oil and Gas Sector Reforms - Learning from the Canadian Experience (2015)
Supervisor: Professor Tamara Larre

NORTH, Adam. The Sale of Law: Ethical Advising and Advocacy in Light of Billing in Civil Litigation (2015)
Supervisor: Michaela Keet

STOCKDALE, Jonathan. The Freedom to Farm in an Urban Era: A Constitutional Review of Saskatoon’s Prohibition on Urban Micro-Livestocking (2015) 
Supervisor: Professor S. Buhler

ADEFEMI, Adedoyin. Widows as ‘Cultural Tools’:  Translating Widows’ Rights into Local Realities in Uganda and Nigeria (2015) 
Supervisor: Professor L. Vandervort.

SAUDER, JoAnne. Canada’s Experiment with Children’s Fitness and Activity Credits (2014) 
Supervisor: Tamara Larre

STARBLANKET, Tamara. Genocide: Indigenous Nations and the State of Canada (2014)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

McCASLIN, Wanda. Hate-motivated Offences and Aboriginal Peoples:  Sentencing Provisions of Section 718.2(a)(i) (2014)
Supervisor: Norman Zlotkin

JAMIESON, Evan. Wildlife Disease, Land Use, and the Tragedy of the Commons Theorizing economic solutions to the problem of wildlife disease control (2014)
Supervisor: Patricia Farnese

BITTERNOSE, Leah.  Kihci-Asotamatowin (The Treaty Sovereign's Sacred Agreements) and the Crown's Constitutional Obligations to Holders of Treaty Rights Through Consultation and Restoration of Treaty Constitutionalism (2014)

Supervisor: Sákéj Henderson

HAYTON, Susan.  Accommodation of Religious and Cultural Differences in Medical School Training (2014)
Supervisor: Barbara von Tigerstrom

DICKSON, James.  On the ‘Honour of the Crown’ Precept, Fiduciary Obligations, and the Fundamental Reconfiguration of Crown/Aboriginal Law in Canada (2013)
Supervisor:  Dwight Newman

EBERT, Mark.  Weaving, Sawing and Houses:  A Trans-Systemic Aboriginal Rights Framework (2013)
Supervisor: Sakej Henderson

HODGES, Melanie.  Back to Where We Started?  The Expansion of the Saskatchewan Justice Alternative Measures Guidelines as an Opportunity to Explore Program Delivery Issues (2013)
Supervisor: Michaela Keet

OMORUYI Benjamin.  Taking Suffering Seriously:  A Robust Approach to Enforcing the Right to Nationality of Stateless People (2013)
Supervisor: Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu

FORESTER, Nathan. Examining the Creation of Common Law Police Powers in Canada (2013)
Supervisor: Glen Luther

VALLANCE, Keir.  Lest You Undermine Our Struggle: Sympathetic Action and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (2013)
Supervisor: Beth Bilson

FLAMINIO, Anna.  Gladue through wahkotowin:  Social History through Cree kinship lens at Corrections and Parole (2013)
Supervisor: Norman Zlotkin

ADAMS, Nkasi.  Guyana’s REDD+ Model and AmerIndian Rights (2013)
Supervisor: Ruth Thompson

TOTH, Adryan.  Law in 3-Dimensions (2013)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

ARVANITIS, Eleni.  Resolving Mass Tort Cases Under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act in Canada: Learning From the United States Experience (2012)
Supervisor: Ron Cuming

CROSS, Jonathan. The Mr. Big Sting In Canada (2012)
Supervisor: Glen Luther

SOUTER, Jennifer. The Case against Private Property in Carbon Assets: Why property rights in the carbon cycle are causing carbon policies to fail (2012)
Supervisor: Patricia Farnese

KORVEN, Kim. The Emperor's New Clothes: the Myth of Indefeasibility of Title in Saskatchewan (2012)
Supervisor: Marie-Ann Bowden

HOEHN, Felix.  The Emerging Equality Paradigm in Aboriginal Law (2011)
Supervisor: Ruth Thompson

BUHLER, Sarah.   Painful injustices: clinical legal education and the pedagogy of suffering (2011)
Supervisor: Michaela Keet

DAHL, Kurt.  A change is gonna come: the future of copyright and the artist/record label relationship in the Music Industry (2009)
Supervisor: Martin Phillipson

BEISEL, Vivienne G.  Do not take them from myself and my children forever: Aboriginal water rights in Treaty 7 territories and the duty to consult (2008)
Supervisor: Beth Bilson

BUYDENS, Jessie C.  Children and youth in the sex trade: exploitation and exiting (2008)
Supervisor: Glen Luther

CLARKE, Paul Terence.   Rights conflicts, curricular control and K-12 education in Canada (2008)
Supervisor: Dwight Newman

BUYDENS, Norma Lorraine.   Rape and "consent to force": legal doctrine and social context in Victorian Britain (2007)
Supervisor: Wanda Wiegers

BELLEMARE, Bradley Shawn.   La Chaas: the Métis constitutional right to hunt in the Canadian legal consciousness (2006)
Supervisor: Glen Luther

BRANCO, Daniela.   Towards a new paradigm of corporate criminal liability in Brazil: lessons from common law development (2006)
Supervisor: Tim Quigley

UDEMGBA, Sonne.  The Precautionary and Differentiated Responsibility Principles in the Climate Change Context (2005)
Supervisors: Sharon Mascher & Marie Ann Bowden

KEET, Michaela Jean.  Contributing to Cultural and Systemic Transformation?  Assessing the Impact of Mandatory Mediation (2005)
Supervisor: Dan Ish

MACKENZIE, Robert Norman.  Restorative justice in colonial Saskatchewan: an analysis (2005)
Supervisor: Tim Quigley

UDEMGBA, Sonne.   The precautionary and differentiated responsibility principles in the climate change context (2005)
Supervisors: Marie-Ann Bowden and Sharon Mascher

JEWISS, Tom.  The First Nations Governance Initiative: A Critical Analysis (2004)
Supervisor: Norman Zlotkin & Ruth Thompson

IKWUEME, Anthony C.  Civil Liability for Transboundary Pollution: A Paradigm Shift in the International Regime of the Environment (2003)
Supervisor: Marie Ann Bowden

MITTEN, H. Rae.  Barriers to implementing holistic, community-based treatment for offenders with fetal alcohol conditions College of Law (2003)
Supervisor: Mary Turpel-Lafond

COWLEY-HEAD, Blanche Cathleen.  Protecting indigenous knowledge under international law (2002)
Supervisor: Ruth Thompson

DRIEDGER, Donna.  Federal Child Support Guidelines: A Pulitzer Prize Winner or a New Dust Cover on an Old Book?  A Comparative Analysis of Canada’s Model and Models of Other Jurisdictions (2001)
Supervisor: Julien Payne

CARDINAL, Sheldon.   The spirit and intent of Treaty Eight: a sagaw eeniw perspective (2001)
Supervisor: Norman Zlotkin

ONWEUKWE, Chika.  Environmental Consideration as an Integral Aspect of the Investment Process: Problems and Prospects for a Developing Country (2001)
Supervisor: Martin Phillipson

RASMUSSEN, Merrilee Denise.  Prairie First Nations and provinces: is there a fiduciary relationship that gives rise to fiduciary obligations? College of Law (2001)
Supervisor: Donna Greschner

MAZEY, Edward Thomas.  Satisfying Labour Rights in Canada: Resolving the problem of Parties Absconding the Jurisdiction (2000)
Supervisor: Beth Bilson

JACOBS, Beverly K.   International law/the great law of peace (2000)
Supervisor: Ruth Thompson

FLEISCHHAKER, Carol.   Sentencing legislation in Canada and the Conditional Sentence: the answer to our problems or just the beginning (1999)
Supervisor: Tim Quigley

BARANES, Yair.   A Comparison of Secured Financing Law in Saskatchewan and Israel (1999)
Supervisor: Ron Cuming

ANNAND, Melvin Ross.   The Regulation of State Trading Exporters by the World Trade Organization (1998)
Supervisor: Don Buckingham

ORCHARD, Bonnie E.   Sentencing circles in Saskatchewan (1998)
Supervisor: Tim Quigley

BARNES, Nana Kojo.   A preventative Approach to Humanitarian Crises In a Post-Cold War World: Humanitarian Intervention Revisited (1997)
Supervisor: Ken Norman

BUCKWOLD, Tamara Marie.   The Receiver Under the Personal Property Security Act: A Redefinition of Status (1995)
Supervisor: Ron Cuming

GREGOR, Brenda.   The Mens Rea of Fraud (1994)
Supervisor: Doug Schmeiser

LANGER, Rosanna.    Family Law: Women’s Experiences of Legalized Domination By Men (1993)
Supervisor:  Louis J.  Romero

ISAAC, Thomas.   Analysis of the Aboriginal government provisions of the 1992 Charlottetown Accord: self-government in the "post-Charlottetown" era (1993)
Supervisor: Donna Greschner

ELRAYH, Ebtisam Sanhouri.   Suspension of Human Rights Under States of Emergency: A Case Study of the Sudan (1992)

CRIBB, Fiona D.   Pay Equity: An Inquiry Into the Legislated Implementation of the Principle of Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value (1992)
Supervisor: Donna Greschner

CARTER, Mark C.   The Judicial Response to the Impoverishment of Divorced Women: Freedom & Constraint Represented by the Pelech Trilogy (1992)
Supervisor: Donna Greschner

PHILLIPSON, Martin.    The Regulation of Deep Seabed Mining (1991)
Supervisor: Marie-Ann Bowden

BASHA, Adil Atieya Hassan.   The Concept of Insurable Interest Under English, North American and Sudanese law: A Comparative Study (1991)
Supervisor: Rob Flannigan

SPENCER, Linda Charmaine.   The use of tort law in the protection of human rights: an alternative to human rights boards? (1991)
Supervisor: Ken Cooper-Stephenson

ADEDE, Mary Atieno.   The Impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Abortion Regulation (1991)
Supervisor: Howard McConnell

ELOBAID, Ahmed Elobaid.   Not available (1990)
Supervisor: Howard McConnell

LANCASTER, Phil.   A fiduciary theory for the review of Aboriginal rights (1990)
Supervisor: Norman Zlotkin

AKINDELE, Olusegun Akinwale.   Corporate Law, Ideology, and the Duty of Directors (1989)
Supervisor: Chris Axworthy

CHOLEWINSKI, Ryszard.   The Positive Cultural and Linguistic Right of Ethnic Minorities (1988)
Supervisor: Howard McConnell

ADEYINKA, Alex-Joshua Genga.   Consumer Protection in the Regulatory Process (1988)
Supervisor: Louis J.  Romero

BONDZI-SIMPSON, Philip Ebow.   Human Rights: A Theoretical Appraisal and a Study of Regional Models for Their International protection (1987)
Supervisor: Howard McConnell

ASAMOA, Cheampong.  Human rights and Affirmative Action: A Conceptual Analysis of Bill C-62, An Act Respecting Employment Equity (1987)
Supervisor: Ken Norman

CHARTRAND, Paul Luc.   The obligation to set aside and secure lands for the "Half-Breed" population pursuant to section 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870 (1988)
Supervisor: Richard H. Bartlett

MAGZOUB, Mubarak.  The Organization of Regional Government in The Sudan (1986)
Supervisor: D.A. Schmeiser

IBRAHIM, Sali Ali Mohamed.  A Comparative Study of State Disposition of Oil and Gas Rights in Sudan and on Canada Lands (1985)
Supervisor: unknown

BAILEY, Stuart Donald.   Some Methods of Encouraging Democracy in Consumer and producer (1985)
Supervisor: Chris Axworthy

McHUGH, Paul.    The Management of Native Lands in New Zealand and Canada: A Comparative Study (1981)
Supervisor(s): Brian Slattery & H. McConnell

JORDAN, Anthony J.   The constitution of the Northwest Territories (1978)
Supervisor: Howard McConnell

MacKINNON, Robert Peter.   Criminal Conspiracy in Canada: A Critical Study (1975)
Supervisor: Douglas A. Schmeiser

LOWN, J.M.   A Proper Law of Torts in the Conflict of Laws (1973)
Supervisor:  J.P.S. McLaren

ADENIJI, Kolawole Davies.   Consumer Credit Institutions in Canada (1973)

McCONNELL, William Howard.   Canadian Sovereignty over the Arctic Archipelago (1970)
Supervisor: D. Colwyn Williams