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Margot Young

Researcher at University of British Columbia

Publications -  36
Citations -  199

Margot Young is an academic researcher from University of British Columbia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Charter & Constitutional law. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 34 publications receiving 196 citations. Previous affiliations of Margot Young include University of Victoria.

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Poverty : rights, social citizenship, and legal activism

TL;DR: Gosselin and Schneiderman as mentioned in this paper argued that "It's for Your Own Good" was the "Bedrock value" of the Canadian Democratic Project (CDP), and that "the Charter as an impediment to Welfare Roll Backs" was "the right to legal aid as a test case".
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Possibilities and Prospects: The Debate Over a Guaranteed Income

TL;DR: The idea of guaranteed income has a long and respectable history in Canadian political and economic thought as mentioned in this paper. But the idea is a controversial one; progressive activists, academics, and politicians disagree about the desirability and the practicality of a guaranteed income.
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Postcard from the Edge (of Empire)

TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as mentioned in this paper explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
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Context, Choice, and Rights: PHS Community Services Society v. Canada (Attorney General)

TL;DR: The case of PHS Community Services Society v Canada (Attorney General) as mentioned in this paper was the first attempt to challenge the federal government's ability to criminalize supervised safe injection of prohibited drugs in a provincially established safe injection site.
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Postcard from the Edge (of Empire)

TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as discussed by the authors explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.