SASKATCHEWAN LAW REVIEW

This comment examines a Supreme Court of Canada case in which a pregnant woman was coerced by the state into entering a residential addiction treatment program in an effort to protect the health of her fetus. The author examines how the majority and dissenting judgements frame the relevant legal issues and she argues that this reflects a critical difference in how each judge viewed the relationship between women's autonomy rights and fetal rights, as well as the hierarchy therein.

In this article, the author discusses the sterilization of people with mental disabilities in Saskatchewan. He begins by examining current case law, focusing specifically on the case of Re Eve (1986) where the Supreme Court of Canada held that non-therapeutic sterilization without consent can never be in the patient's interests. The author posits that although the SCC's judgment appears to clearly prohibit sterilization in most cases, academic criticism and subsequent jurisprudence cast ambiguity on this rule.

This article is a theoretical examination of Aboriginal women's relationship with the Canadian legal system. The focus is on the barriers experienced by women in accessing the male constructed legal system. The article includes a specific focus on issues of language and the disparities experienced by Aboriginals within criminal law. The article concludes with an examination of the place of Aboriginal women within the feminist legal paradigm. [Descriptors: Indigenous Women, Canada]

This paper explores whether, to what extent, and in what circumstances principles of international law may be employed in Canadian courts in cases involving human rights issues. It outlines the basic principles of incorporation of international customary law and international treaty law in Canada, referring to various cases. The author argues that ample justification exists to expand the use of international law in Canadian courts and encourages lawyers to argue international human rights law in domestic litigation. [The focus of this article is not specifically women's human rights.

"It is the object of this essay to explore the means by which international norms of behaviour can be brought into the courts of Canada. This will be followed by an examination of the likelihood that an argument grounded in international human rights will have persuasive force in those courts.