University of Calgary

Maureen T. Duffy - Selected Publications

Law Reviews

  • Maureen T. Duffy, "The Slow Creep of Complacency: Ongoing Challenges for Liberal Democracies Seeking to Detain Terrorism Suspects," Pace Int'l. L. Rev. Online Companion (forthcoming).
  • "Amicus Curiae Brief on Joint Criminal Enterprise in the Matter of the Co-Prosecutors' Appeal of the Closing Order Against Kaing Guek Eav "Duch" Dated 8 August 2008," 20 Crim. L. Forum 331 (Spring 2009)(publication of an Amicus Curiae Brief filed, by invitation, before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Case File No: 001/18-07-2007-ECCC/OCIJ (PTC 02))(prepared by René Provost, Payam Akhavan, Frédéric Mégret, Maureen T. Duffy, Carlos Iván Fuentes, Amar Khoday, Melissa Martins Casagrande, Malcolm Dort, Jake Hirsch-Allen, Sophie Tremblay, and Sébastien Jodoin).
  • Maureen T. Duffy and René Provost, "Constitutional Canaries and the Elusive Quest to Legitimize Security Detentions in Canada," 40  Case W. Res. J. Int'l. L. 531 (2009).
  • Maureen Duffy, "Note: Jacobson v. United States: Do the Ends Justify the Means in Government Stings?" 24 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 77 (1992)(quoted with approval in Rivera v. State, 1993 WY 3, 846 P.2d 1 (1993)(Urbigkit, JJ., dissenting)).

Other Publications

  • Maureen T. Duffy, "Justice Delayed as Justice Denied: The Ongoing Plight of the Algerian Group," published by invitation in Pulse of Democracy (17 Feb. 2009), online: pulsdemokratije.net <http://www.pulsdemokratije.net/index.php?id=1364&l=en> (available in English and Bosnian).
  • René Provost and Maureen Duffy, "Constitutional Canaries: The Wrong Way to Fight Terrorism," op-ed (Mar. 6, 2008), The Globe and Mail.

Selected Presentations

  • Moderator, Panel Session, "Canada-United States National Security Cooperation,"  Symposium on Counterterrorism and Civil Liberties, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 5, 2010 (panel speakers: Maher Arar, Edna Keeble, Simon Potter)(live broadcast on CPAC, live web streaming by Prism Magazine).   
  • "The Slow Creep of Complacency: Ongoing Challenges for Liberal Democracies Seeking to Detain Terrorism Suspects," Symposium: "Comparative Constitutional Law: National Security Across the Globe," Pace University, White Plains, NY, U.S.A., November 13, 2009.
  • "Childhood Lost: Building a Better Future for Captured Child Combatants," Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, New Voices in Human Rights Panel, San Diego, California, U.S.A., January 6-10, 2009.
  • "Double Burden: Girls and Young Women as Child Soldiers and Sex Slaves," International Federation of Women Lawyers, XXXIII International Convention, Milan, Italy, November 13-16, 2008, co-presentation.
  • "Human Rights and the Order of the Phoenix: Young People, Literature and Legal Education," Joint Canadian and American Law and Society Association Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 28-June 1, 2008, co-presentation.