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This paper discusses the principle of "Transition" as it has been conceptualised by the Curriculum Renewal in Legal Education project. The project sought to develop a principled framework for renewing the final year of tertiary legal education in Australia. Capstone experiences were chosen as the most appropriate mechanism for assisting final year students to manage the transition process. Thoughtfully designed capstones assist students to integrate and synthesise their learning over their entire degree programme, facilitate closure on the undergraduate experience, and assist students to transition from student to emerging professional. We discuss the importance of addressing final year students' transitional needs and explain how the principle facilitates this process. Although the framework has been developed specifically for legal education in Australia its approach enables transferability across disciplines and institutions. The framework addresses criticisms that universities and law schools are not meeting the needs of final year students by preparing them for the transition to graduate life in a complex and uncertain world.

All organizations, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), need funding to survive and fulfill their mandates. What is the best strategy for securing that funding? Should groups work to attract government attention and be a focus of government debate or should they avoid this type of scrutiny? This article uses innovative data to systematically examine how being the subject of debate in parliament is related to NGO funding for Indigenous, women, and environmental groups. We also examine if the relationship between debate and funding is dependent on the political party in power. We use data collected from Canadian Public Accounts, which lists all grants to groups by the federal government, and the index of Hansard, a full record of parliamentary debates at the federal level in Canada. Our findings demonstrate that the relationship between debate and funding is dependent on the issue area. While debate is positively associated with funding in all areas, it is a stronger predictor of funding for environmental and Indigenous groups than for organizations focusing on women. In addition, the party in power is critical for shaping how debate is related to funding. Debate has a much stronger effect on environmental funding when Liberals are in power than it does when Conservatives control the Prime Minister's office. This research shows that NGOs must be strategic when garnering attention to their cause as more debate does not necessarily lead to more funding across issue areas and contexts. Tous les organismes, y compris les ONG, ont besoin de financement pour survivre et bien remplir leur mandat. Quelle est la meilleure strategie pour obtenir ce financement? Les groupes doivent-ils rechercher l'attention du gouvernement et susciter des debats gouvernementaux ou doivent-ils au contraire eviter de se retrouver sous les projecteurs? Cet article a recours a des donnees novatrices pour examiner systematiquement comment faire l'objet de debats au parlement peut influencer le financement des ONG dans trois domaines : les Autochtones, les femmes et l'environnement. Nous examinons egalement si la relation entre debat et financement depend du parti politique au pouvoir. Nous utilisons des donnees novatrices tirees du comite canadien des comptes publics, qui etablit la liste de tous les groupes ayant recu des subventions de la part du gouvernement federal, et Hansard, compte rendu officiel des debats de la Chambre des communes du Canada. Nous avons decouvert que le lien entre debats et financement depend du domaine debattu. Alors que le debat est associe positivement au financement dans tous les domaines, il constitue un meilleur predicteur de financement des groupes environnementaux et autochtones que de ceux qui visent les femmes. De plus, le parti au pouvoir est critique dans la determination de la maniere dont les debats sont lies au financement. Les debats ont un effet beaucoup plus marquant, dans le cas du financement des groupes environnementaux, lorsque les liberaux sont au pouvoir que lorsque le premier ministre est conservateur. Cette recherche demontre que les ONG doivent faire preuve de strategie lorsqu'elles cherchent a attirer l'attention sur leur cause, car plus de debats ne conduisent pas necessairement a un financement plus important pour tous les problemes et dans tous les contextes., WHO GETS FUNDED? NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (NGOs), like all organizations, need funding. Funding can facilitate the development, survival, and resilience of organizations over time (Clarke 1998a, 1998b; Ndegwa 1996; Rodgers and [...]

Indigenous peoples in Canada have engaged in hundreds of collective action events. The media are the key means through which the general public learns about these actions. However, the media do not simply mirror events. Instead, coverage tends to emphasize certain aspects of indigenous peoples’ collective action events while overlooking others. While early research emphasized the tendency of the mainstream media to portray these events as violent and militant, more recent scholarship has focused on nationalism and the ways that coverage of these actions creates an “us” vs. “them” binary. In this paper we build on this latter work by identifying the specific characteristics associated with each side of this binary. We analyze several hundred Canadian newspaper articles about a key set of events that took place during the 1990s. We find that the media repeatedly draws on frames that portray Indigenous peoples’ protest as criminal, divisive, and expensive. These assessments are made in implicit contrast with non-Indigenous people, or “good” citizens, as law-abiding, peaceful, and tax paying. Media stories therefore frame Indigenous challengers in a way that make them appear to be less deserving citizens of the nation.

This Article examines the conflict between tax and trade law principles in the tax treatment of a non-resident service provider. It explores that conflict through non-discrimination obligations found in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), regional trade agreements, bilateral trade agreements, and tax treaties. The interplay between these agreements has the potential to frustrate trade law objectives because States may impose discriminatory tax measures on non-resident service providers. Tax treaties can play an important role in providing a minimum non-discrimination obligation for tax measures impacting the cross-border trade in services. This Article proposes a new tax treaty non-discrimination obligation grounded in trade law principles., OVERVIEW I. BACKGROUND II. THE TAX CARVE-OUT IN TRADE AGREEMENTS A. The GATS B. Regional Trade Agreements 1. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) 2. The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [...]