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Michael Mac Neil
Department of Law

Office: C471Loeb

Department of Law
Carleton University

1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON CANADA
K1S 5B6

Ph (613) 520-2600 x 3684
Fax (613) 520-4467

Email: michael_macneil@carleton.ca

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Publications  

Books
Articles in Refereed Journals
Chapters in Edited Books
Other (Non-Refereed) Scholarly Publications
Non-Refereed Books
Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals
Papers Presented

Books

Trade Union Law in Canada (Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1994) with Michael Lynk and Peter Engelmann (I wrote Chapters 1,2,3,7,8,9, out of a total of 11 chapters)

Note: This book is published in a looseleaf format and is updated annually: Annual updates have been published since1995, with the most recent update published in November, 2008

Law, Regulation and Governance editor, with P. Swan and N. Sargent (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002) 342 pp.

Articles in Refereed Publications

"Plant Closings and Workers' Rights" (1982) 14 Ottawa Law Review 1-55

"Property in the Welfare State" (1983) 7 Dalhousie Law Journal 343-381

Case Comment, Wallace v. Toronto-Dominion Bank (1984) 62 Canadian Bar Review 84-95

"The Right to Change Its Mind: A Consideration of Reconsideration by the Ontario Labour Relations Board" (1986) 11 Queen's Law Journal 372-403

Case Comment: British Columbia Telephone Company v. Telecommunication Workers' Union (1985), 63 Can. Bar Rev. 816-828

"Recent Developments in Labour Law" (1986), 18 Ottawa Law Review 85-119

"Unions, Law and Politics" (1989) 43 Relations Industrielles 847-868; also presented to the Canadian Industrial Relations Association Annual Meeting, Hamilton, Ontario, June 1987 and to the British Association of Canadian Studies Annual Meeting, Southampton, England, March 1988

"Courts and Liberal Ideology: An Analysis of the Application of the Charter to Some Labour Law Issues" (1989) 34 McGill Law Journal 85-118; also presented to the Canadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Windsor, Ontario, June 1988

"Recent Developments in Canadian Law: Labour" (1989) 20 Ottawa Law Review 479-544

"Peevish Propensities and Perverse Proclivities: Unions, Courts and Constitutional Labour Codes" - a review essay (1990) 40 University of Toronto Law Journal 813-825

“Labour Picketing and Consumer Boycotts: Judicial Ideology in Kmart and Allsco” (2000), 8:1 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 79-94

"Unions and the Charter: The Supreme Court of Canada and Democratic Values" (2003) 10:1 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 3-25

Collective Bargaining and the Discourse of Privacy as a Human Right” in Selected Papers from the the 40th Annual CIRA Conference) (Paper presented at 40th Annual CIRA Conference, June 1, 2003, Halifax Nova Scotia)

Chapters In Edited Books

"Employment Law" in L. Olivo and B. Carson, eds. Introduction to Law in Canada (North York: Captus Press, 1996).

"Rights Arbitration: Current Practices, Problems and Innovative Suggestions", in A.Sethi, ed. Collective Bargaining in Canada, (Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1988)

"Issues in Contract Administration and Human Rights", co-authored with A. Sethi, in A. Sethi ed., Collective Bargaining in Canada, (Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1988) (fully equal participation)

“Governing Cyberspace: Canadian Perspectives” in Law, Regulation and Governance M. MacNeil, P. Swan and N. Sargent eds. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002)

“Governing Employment” in Law, Regulation and Governance M. MacNeil, P. Swan and N. Sargent eds. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Other (Non-Refereed) Scholarly Publications

"Law, Cyberspace and the Role of Nation States" (2001) 2:1 McGill International Review 24-26

Non-refereed Books

Introduction to Private Law Relationships, (Revised Edition) (Toronto: Captus Press, 1991) an edited collection of course readings, with Neil Sargent and Brettel Dawson

Introduction to Public Law, Vol 2, Rev. ed. (Toronto: Captus Press, 1991) an edited collection of course readings, with A.L. Bartholomew, D.W. Elliott, G. Goodwin- Gill, and J.G. Neuspiel

The Legal Nature of Property (Ottawa: Carleton University Press: 1995) - course pack prepared for use in the course Law 51.323.

M.J. Mac Neil, N. Sargent and T.B. Dawson, eds., Introduction to Private Law Relationships (2nd ed.) (North York: Captus Press, 1995)

D.W. Elliott, M. Mac Neil, R. Warskett, eds., Introduction to Public Law: Readings on the State, the Administrative Process, and Basic Values (3rd ed.) (North York: Captus Press, 1995).

Book Reviews in Scholarly Journals

R. White, Law, Capitalism and the Right to Work (1987) 66 Can. Bar Rev. 420 (5pp.)

A.W.R. Carrothers, W. Rayner And E. Palmer, Collective Bargaining Law in Canada (1987), 66 Can. Bar Rev. 667 (3pp.)

M.G. Mitchnick, Unions Security and the Charter (1988), 67 Can. Bar Rev. 391 (3 pp.)

Gérard Hébert et al., The State of the Art in Industrial Relations (1990) 69 Can. Bar Rev. 393 (5 pp.)

Christopher Edley, Jr. Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy (1992) 7 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 237 (2pp.)

I. Christie, G. England, Employment Law in Canada 2nd ed. (1994) 3 Canadian Labour Law Journal 141 (4 pp.)

R. Lock et al,. eds, Employment Relations in a Changing World Economy (1996) 4 Canadian Labour Law Journal 411 (8 pp.)

W.B. Rayner, The Law of Collective Bargaining (1997) 5 Canadian Labour Law Journal

Papers Presented

"Job Security for Academic Staff and the Effects of Financial Exigency and Program Redundancy" presented to Canadian Association of University Teachers Lawyers' Workshop, Ottawa, 19 Jan. 1985 (39 pp.)

"The Impact of the Charter on Labour" presented to a joint meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association and the Canadian Political Science Association, Laval University, June 1989

"Police Discipline and Rights Arbitration" presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Police Association, Halifax, September 1990

"Images of Property in Canadian Law" presented to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association, Ottawa, June, 1993

"Labour Law Reform in Ontario: The Role of the Labour Board"presented to a Joint Session of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers and the Canadian Law and Society Association, Université de Québec à Montréal, June, 1995.

"Pay and Employment Equity in Ontario and the Federal Jurisdiction: Reflections on Recent Developments"  presented to Canadian Association of Law Teachers Conference, University of Ottawa, June, 1998

“North American Reflections on Cyberspace Governance and Sovereignty” presented to Continuing Legal Education Conference on International Dimensions of Internet and e‑Commerce Regulation held on 24 and 25 October 2002, Sydney, Australia (sponsored by the Baker and McKenzie Law and Cyberspace Centre, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)

Mandatory Retirement in Ontario” presented to Insight Conference on Employment Law, Ottawa, April 2004

Labour Law and Discrimination on the Basis of Marital and Family Status” presented to Labour Law Conference: The Charter and Human Rights at Work: 25 Years Later, University of Western Ontario, October 27, 2007

"Romantic Liberals: Responding to Health Services" presented to Canadian Industrial Relations Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C, June 2008.