Paper Preview: When Words Can Do Justice

Host Cassidy Menard interviews Garima Karia, recent law school graduate and future clerk for the Supreme Court of Canada. Garima is one of six authors published in Volume 28 of Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform. Her paper “When Words Can Do Justice: Assessing the Novel Relationship Between Legislative Drafting and Access to Administrative Justice in Yukon and Canada” explores the connection between thoughtful legislative drafting and access to justice.

Tune in for a range of conversation, including Garima’s time at the Yukon Human Rights Commission, her use of Amartya Sen’s expanded capabilities approach in a legal context, her love for author Jesse Thistle, and her experience working with the editors of Appeal Law Review.

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Host: Cassidy Menard

Guest: Garima Karia

Editing: Cassidy Menard

Music: Machinery by Eddy

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