Karinne Lantz is a PhD student in the Schulich School of Law. Her research explores the role of international law in securing the right to health for vulnerable populations in Canada, Australia and abroad.
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“What do we owe each other?” This question was suggested as a prompt for this month’s blogs by a fellow OpenThinker, Nicole Arsenault. For many reasons, I felt like this was fitting to address in our final blogs. I have given questions like this some thought throughout my life and I think the simple answer […]
In October 2020, a notable lawsuit, against a Canadian-based mining company, was settled. While this settlement will bring closure on terms that are acceptable to the plaintiffs, it left unresolved some important legal issues. Among these are whether transnational corporations based in Canada can be held civilly liable for breaches of international law abroad. (For […]
A version of this post was first published on The Conversation, which features relevant and informed articles written by researchers and academics in their areas of expertise and edited by experienced journalists. Oh, Canada I remember having a “proud Canadian” moment flying home from a trip to the United States in 2002 when I read […]
Do concerns about Canada becoming a “health care safe haven”* justify denying irregular migrants medical coverage when doing so could put the person’s life at risk? This is a question on which people can—and no doubt will—disagree. It is also a question on which Canadian courts and the United Nations Human Rights Committee (a body […]
Quite often, when I tell people that my academic interest is public international law, I get a response along the lines of: “That sounds interesting! [brief pause] What is public international law?” Since this is one of my first OpenThink blogs, I thought it would be fitting for me to address this question. Simply put, […]
I feel compelled to start with a disclaimer, as this blog post is largely a reflection piece attempting to tie together loose ends of my thinking over the past few weeks. Being at home with young children, I have had some uninterrupted moments to think during the height of our social distancing restrictions, but not […]
International law does not often make headlines in Canada, but I think it should. Increasingly, international human rights law is informing litigation in an attempt to address personal, local, national, and global challenges. After living and working without immigration status in Canada for seven years, a woman becomes seriously ill, cannot pay for all of […]
