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The New Old Lawyer: How Lawyers have Adapted to Mediation to Preserve their Power, Income, and Identity
(2011-05-08)
This paper outlines the evolution of mediation in some common law jurisdictions from an idea most lawyers dismissed to a practice most now use. It highlights the attitudes and actions of lawyers as they have adjusted their ...
Landscape-Scale Prioritization Process for Private Land Conservation in Alberta
(2013-11-12)
There are 12 conservation land trust organizations
(CLTOs) in the province of Alberta, Canada that actively
steward land. Together they have protected over 1.09 million
hectares of land. Using in-depth interview data ...
Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, McLuhan, and Intellectual Property)
(2014-03-20)
From the editors' introduction to the book in which this chapter appears, _McLuhan's Global Village Today_ (Pickering & Chatto, 2014): "Mark A. McCutcheon’s contribution, ‘Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, ...
Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in Canada’s postcolonial popular culture
(Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2011-10)
This essay analyzes the cultural functions of Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in postcolonial popular culture. Focusing on the case of Canadian film production, I begin by contextualizing Canadian film as a ...
Avatars go to Law School: Digital Standardized (and not so Standard) Clients for Law School Teaching
(2010-12-15)
Standardized clients have been a feature of medical schools for years. Digital technologies now offer the opportunity to create them in interactive form as avatars. In addition, advances in semantic computing now allow ...
The Cento, Romanticism, and Copyright
(English Studies in Canada, 2013)
This article excavates the obscure literary genre of the cento – a genre of poetry defined by its wholly derivative composition from quotations of other works – and its supplementary relation to Romantic literature and the ...
Is it Still Cheating if it’s Not Done on Purpose? Accidental Plagiarism in Higher Education
(2013-03-05)
This project aimed to discover the extent to which plagiarism is committed unintentionally. In a study of students enrolled in an online distance education course at a post-secondary institution, slightly more than half ...
Music preferences and young people's attitudes towards spending and saving.
(2010-12)
We aimed to find patterns among young people’s music preferences in relation to
their attitudes towards saving or spending money. Previous research found that
certain music genres (e.g. rap and dance) are associated with ...
Debate as a Teaching Strategy in Online Education: A Case Study.
(2011)
This reflective case study was based on our independent use of the debate as an online
instructional approach and our shared interest in teaching strategies. In an interdisciplinary manner, using narrative inquiry and ...