Completed Theses - Law Graduate Programs
A list of theses completed at Western Law which are available online (published since 2012) can be found at https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/law-etd/.
Major Research Projects completed at Western Law and available online (published since 2016) can be found at https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/llmp/ (LLM) and https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/mslp/ (MSL).
(Students who have completed the Collaborative Graduate Specialization in Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in their Master's or Doctoral degree have the notation "w/ TJ".)
PhD Theses
| Student | Supervisor | Thesis Title | Publication | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catenacci, Christina | Lynk & Botterell |
Privacy and Surveillance in the Workplace: Closing the Electronic Surveillance Gap | 2020 | PhD |
| Poon, Jenny | Oosterveld | Safeguarding the Principle of Non-Refoulement in Europe: Counteracting Containment Policies in the Common European Asylum System | 2020 | PhD w/ TJ |
| Wilson, L. Daniel | Nicholls | Can Regulatory Reform Reverse the Decline of Public Markets in Canada? Assessing the Factors Impacting Decisions by Corporate Leaders to Avoid Canadian Public Listings | 2020 | PhD |
| Stefanik, Kirsten | Oosterveld | Improving Civilian Protection during War through Conflict-Specific Behavioural Regulation of Combatants | 2019 |
PhD |
Master's Theses
| Student | Supervisor | Thesis Title | Publication | Degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kobayashi, Brenda | Sherrin | The Meaning of Accountability Under Section 72 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act | 2022 | MSL |
| Malik, Pankhuri | Wilkinson | Can Novel Findings from Emerging Neuroscientific Technologies be Incorporated into Trademark Law in Canada? | 2022 | MSL |
| Adeyemi, Temitope | Carmody | A 'Critical Mass' Approach to Negotiations in the WTO: A Case Study Analysis | 2021 | LLM |
| Warnock, Jeffrey | Coyle | Interpreting UNDRIP: Exploring the Relationship Between FPIC, Consultation, Consent, and Indigenous Legal Traditions | 2021 | LLM |
| Gonzalez, Alejandro | Nocilla | The Measure of a Monitor's Role | 2021 | LLM |
| Bellehumeur, Angeline | Steyn & Randall |
Before the Ice Disappears: Pursuing Climate Justice for Inuit Women in the Context of Mining in Nunavut | 2020 | LLM |
| Pronych, Nadia | Lynk | Stewart v. Elk Valley Coal Corp.: The Rehabilitation of Addiction Disability Law in Canada | 2020 | LLM |
| Derynck, Leaelle | Coyle | An Anishinaabe Tradition: Anishinaabe Constitutions in Ontario | 2020 | LLM |
| Calvert, Conal | Sherrin | The Circumstances of the Offence: The Post-Ipeelee Sentencing of Indigenous Offenders for Manslaughter in the Superior Courts | 2020 | LLM |
| Fadahunsi, Oluwabukola | Nicholls | Minority Shareholders' Protections under Nigerian and Canadian Corporate Law: A Comparative Analysis | 2019 | LLM |
| Njokuji, Ogechi Judith | Steyn & Nicholls |
Renewable Energy as an Alternative to Fossil Fuel Use: A Legal Framework for Advancing Low Carbon Energy Transition in Nigeria | 2019 | LLM |
| DeMelo, Cassandra | Martin & Voss |
Extending Our Promise: Providing Help to Mentally Ill Accused As Soon As Practicable | 2019 | LLM |
| Beaudoin, Jennifer | Demeyere | Minding the Gap: Pay Equity and the Role of Law in Narrowing Canada's Gender Wage Gap | 2018 | LLM |
| McPhail, Melanie | Shelley | The Constitutionality of Restrictions on Recreational Cannabis Advertising: Balancing Public Health and Freedom of Expression | 2018 | LLM |
| Wong, Alison | Wilkinson | Implementing Canada's Data Exclusivity Obligations and Protecting Personal Information in Clinical Trials | 2017 | LLM |
| Gossler, Thassiane | Carmody & Campbell |
Transfer Pricing Rules in the BRICS World: A Shifting Balance in Global Tax Governance? | 2017 | LLM |
| Berlin, Ilya | Oosterveld | Unilateral Non-Colonial Secessions: An Affirmation of the Right to Self-Determination and a legal exception to the use of force in International Law | 2017 | MSL |
| Hernandez, Lina | Oosterveld | Achieving Equality for Women in Labour and Employment – A Comparative Study of Colombia and Canada | 2017 | LLM |
| Tomic, Darinka | Wilkinson | The Right to Food and the Right to Intellectual Property in the United Nations (including International Human Rights) and International Trade: Finding the Definition | 2017 | MSL |
| Fasina, Omolola | Seck | Environmental Impact Assessment for Oil and Gas Projects: A Comparative Evaluation of Canadian and Nigerian Laws | 2016 | LLM |
| Potter, Heather | Seck | Regulating for Resilience: Principled Flexibility and Environmental Co-Management in the Mackenzie Valley | 2016 | LLM |
| Sopow, Nikolas | Graham | Directors and Standards: The Problem of Insufficient Guidance | 2016 | LLM |
| Sugar, Stephanie | Pitel | Resolving Dilemmas in Canadian Class Actions by Reconsidering Private Law Principles | 2016 | LLM |
| Abbas, Maia | Lynk | Accommodating Complex Disabilities: Chronic Pain Disorders in the Canadian Workplace | 2016 | LLM |
| Pachai, Samita | Khimji & Campbell |
Real Estate Investment Trusts in Canada | 2016 | LLM |
| D'Alton, Louis | Trosow | The Copyright Board and Tribunals Process: Users in the Balance | 2016 | MSL |
| Newman, Jason | Trosow | The Patent Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations: An Examination of the Decision Making Patterns in These Cases at the Supreme Court of Canada | 2016 | LLM |
| Glass, Matthew | Coyle | Canada's Duty to Consult: Communicative Equality and the Norms of Legal Discourse | 2015 | MSL |
| Robb, Ryan | Neyers | The Clarity of Reasonableness Since Dunsmuir: Mission (Mostly) Accomplished | 2015 | MSL |
| Ramesh, Ragavi | Wilkinson | Re-imagining the Principle of National Treatment: Addressing Private International Law Issues in Copyright Infringement in the Internet Era | 2015 | LLM |
| Downer, Nolan | Carmody | Shifting Grounds: Judicial Review under NAFTA Chapter 11 and the Ratification of ICSID | 2014 | LLM |
| Muszak, Teri | Graham | Hearing Voices: Judicial Consideration of Ontario’s Social Assistance Legislation | 2014 | LLM |
| Pannu, Navraj | Seck | Transnational Corporate Regulation through Sustainability Reporting: A Case Study of the Canadian Extractive Sector | 2014 | LLM |
| Akinwande, Gbenga | Chamberlain | Emissions Trading: A Policy Option for Fighting Climate Change in Africa | 2013 | LLM |
| Ansari, Alisha | Khimji | What is the scope of competition law in the UAE? - A comparative study with developed and developing nations | 2013 | LLM |
| Osellame, Ian | Nicholls | Corporate Social Responsibility in Canadian Banking A Case Study on the Equator Principles |
2013 | LLM |
| Stefanik, Kirsten | Seck | Restoring Humanity to Humanitarian Law: Borrowing from Environmental Law to Protect Civilians and the Environment | 2013 | LLM w/ TJ |
| ter Haar, Amy | Wilkinson | The Porous Boundary Between Legal and Business Advice, An Empirical Approach | 2013 | LLM |
| Theophilo, Fabio | Graham | Highway Tolls in Brazil and the Lawfulness Principle | 2013 | LLM |
| Tian, Li | Sherrin | Victims' Opportunities to Review a Decision not to Prosecute made by the Crown Prosecutor | 2013 | LLM |
| Seccareccia, David | Botterell | The Applicability of Co-Operative Federalism: Lessons Learned from the Assisted Human Reproduction Act | 2013 | MSL |
| Abbey, Natasha | Welling | An Insightful Study of the Oppression Remedy under South African and Canadian Corporate Law | 2012 | LLM |
| Blosh, Marie | Martin | The History of Animal Welfare Law and the Future of Animal Rights | 2012 | LLM |
| Conron, Carolynn | Solomon | Canada's Marihuana Medical Access Regulations: Up In Smoke | 2012 | LLM |
| Goodman, Patricia | Wilkinson | Electronic Health Record Regulation in Canada: What the Patient Experience Reveals about the Pursuit of Legislative Harmonization | 2012 | LLM |
| Loucks, Melissa | Wilkinson | Trademarks and Geographical Indications: Conflict or Coexistence? | 2012 | LLM |
| Phuntsok, Tashi | Seck | Indigenous Peoples under International Law: An Asian Perspective | 2012 | LLM |
| Rehman, Mehreen | Khimji | Directors' Duties to Creditors - Mapping the Twilight Zone | 2012 | LLM |
| Vishwanatha, Sowmya | Perry | The Codex: Labelling of Food Derived from Modern Biotechnology | 2012 | LLM |
| AL-Rizzo, Zaid | Khimji | An Explanation of the High Rates of Discrepancies in Letter of Credit Transactions: the "Bilateral Assurance" Mechanism | 2011 | LLM |
| Bray, Devin | Carmody | Fair and Equitable Treatment and Indirect Expropriation: A Redundant Relationship in NAFTA? | 2011 | LLM |
| Bray, Heather | Carmody | A Comparative Approach: Denial of Justice in JAFTA Chapter 11 and the European Convention on Human Rights | 2011 | LLM |
| Hirani, Faiz | Welling | Narrowing the Atlantic: A Study of the Use of English Precedent in Canadian Corporate Law | 2011 | LLM |
| Johnstone, Ian | McLaren | To Serve and Protect: The Fallacies of the Ontario Police Services Act | 2011 | LLM |
| Leveau, Fanny | Oosterveld | Liability Under International Criminal Law for International Crimes Committed by Child Soldiers | 2011 | LLM |
| Magyar, John | Graham | Hansard as an Aid to Statutory Interpretation in Canadian Courts form 1999 to 2010 | 2011 | LLM |
| Nocilla, Alfonso | Telfer | Asset Sales Under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act | 2011 | LLM |
| Stepura, Matthew | Seck | Sacred Sustainability and the Law of the Lakes | 2011 | LLM |
| Tripathy, Sunita | Perry | Perspectives on Technology Transfer | 2011 | LLM |
| Viswambharan, VS | Perry | The Criminalization of Patent Infringement in Canada and India | 2011 | LLM |
| Armstrong, Scott | Trosow | Closed Platforms and Closed Markets: A Theory of Privately Controlled Technology and Its Status in Canadian Competition Law | 2010 | LLM |
| Bhandari, Rohan | Perry | Computer Programs: Intellectual Property Protection in Canada and India | 2010 | LLM |
| D’Ascanio, Angelo | Telfer | A Director's Duty to Act in the Best Interests of the Corporation in an Insolvency or "Vicinity of Insolvency" Situtation: The Case for a Return to Basic Economic Principles | 2010 | LLM |
| Dutt, Deepshikha | Perry | Shades of Grey: The Legal Treatment of Grey Markets in India and Canada | 2010 | LLM |
| Graham, Shawn | Neyers | Remedies in the Arthur Wishart Act: A Critique of Dig This Garden | 2010 | LLM |
| Jeffery, Kristin | McLaren | A Critical Analysis of Arbitrator Sanctioning Under the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code | 2010 | LLM |
| Bernards, Sebastian | Wilkinson | Hypothetical Canadian Claim Construction in the RIM Lawsuit: The Impact of Canada's Narrow Approach to Patent Claim Construction and Its Possible Impact on a Hypothetical NTP v. RIM Lawsuit in Canada | 2009 | LLM |
| Collins, Kirk | Edgar | Targeted Tax Policy for Human Capital | 2009 | LLM |
| Conroy, Amy | Wilkinson | Substitute Decisions and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment | 2009 | LLM |
| Gil, Gustavo | Perry | Digital Rights Management and Canadian Privacy: Alternatives for Digital Rights Management Implementation in Canada | 2009 | LLM |
| MacKenzie, David | McLaren | Sporting Arbitration: Meeting World Demand for Dispute Resolution | 2009 | LLM |
| Taylor, Sean | Lynk | Socio-Economic Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The Prospects for Domestic Enforcement Through the Courts | 2008 | LLM |
| Adesina, Abisola | Oosterveld | Human Rights and the Regulation of Multinational Oil Corporations in Developing Countries | 2007 | LLM |
| Ojogbo , Samuel | Nicholls | Globalization, Emerging Markets and Corporate Governance Convergence | 2007 | LLM |
| Rui, Liu | Perry | Foreign Trademark Protection in China | 2007 | LLM |
| Wang, Can | Telfer | Proposals for the Chinese Model of Anticipatory Breach: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese Law, the CISG, the UCC and the Anglo-Canadian Common Law | 2007 | LLM |
| Zhang, Jian | Carmody | International Trade and the Legal Regulation of Organic Food in China | 2007 | LLM |
| Zhou, Jingjing | Carmody | The Protection of Geographical Indications (GI) in China: A Review of the EU Sui Generis System, the US Trademark System, and International Protection From A Chinese Perspective | 2007 | LLM |
| Chapman, Frances | Holland | Under Pressure: The Canadian Criminal Defence of Duress | 2006 | LLM |
| de Vries, Jonathan | Pitel | The Future of Public Policy in Canadian Private International Law | 2006 | LLM |
| Pizzale, Norm | Lynk | The Co-Evolution of Natural Law and International Trade Law | 2006 | LLM |
| Shen, Mi | McLaren | National Security in Bilateral Mergers and Acquisitions between the United States and China | 2006 | LLM |
| Montgomery, Stephanie | Lynk | Age Old Questions: The Politics and Uncertainty of Mandatory Retirement Jurisprudence | 2005 | LLM |
| Tan, Arthur | Carmody | Necessary Reforms in the Regulation of Foreign Banking Access in China During the Post-WTO Era | 2005 | LLM |
| Vasudev, Palladam | Welling | Understanding the Corporation: Towards a Theory of Corporate Law | 2005 | LLM |
