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.If you have any feedback you would like to share with the hosts, please send us an email at [email protected]: Cassidy Menard Guest: Garima KariaEditing: Cassidy MenardMusic: Machinery by EddyWe respectfully acknowledge the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory the University of Victoria stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.