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Courses

• The Private Law Process: Torts - 108C
• Remedies - 318
• Insurance Law - 344
• Race, Ethnicity, Culture and the Law - 358

Publications

Learn more about Professor Adjin-Tettey's research on the Social Science Research Network.

Books

• Co-author, Remedies: The Law of Damages, 2nd ed (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008)

Book Chapters

• “Sexual Wrongdoing: Do the Remedies Reflect the Wrong”, in Richardson & Rackley eds, Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law, 2011 (forthcoming)
• “Discriminatory Impact of Application of Restitutio in Intergrum in Personal Injury Claims” in Taking Remedies Seriously ” in Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Taking Remedies Seriously (Justice Robert Sharpe & Kent Roach, eds.) (2010), 119-166

• “Picking up Where Justice Wilson Left Off: The Tort of Discrimination Revisited”, part of a collection of essays in honour of the late Madam Justice Wilson, Kim Brooks ed., Justice Bertha Wilson: One Woman’s Difference (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009) 113-130 (refereed)

• “Claims of Involuntary Parenthood: Why the Resistance?”, in Emerging Issues in Tort Law, Jason Neyers, Erika Chamberlain & Stephen Pitel, eds. (Oxford & Portland, Oregon: Hart Publications, 2007 chapter 4 (Hart Publishing, 2007) 85 -111 (refereed)

 Articles Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• "Rethinking the Materiality Requirement for Non-Disclosure and Misrepresentation in Insurance Contracts” (2010) 89 Can Bar Rev. 241 - 283
• "Improving the Potential of Tort Law for Redressing Historical Abuse Claims: The Need for a Contextualized Approach to the Limitation Defence” (with Freya Kodar) (2010-11) 42 Ottawa Law Rev.  95-122, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1932455
• “Film as a Complement to the Written Text: Reflections on Using The Sterilization of Leilani Muir to Teach Muir v. Alberta” (with Freya Kodar) (2011) 48:3 Alberta Law Rev. 615 - 629
• "Promises and Challenges of Achieving Racial Equality in Legal Education in Canada” (with Maneesha Deckha) 2010 Canadian Legal Education Annual Review, 175 -212
• “Using Film in the Classroom” (with Freya Kodar) (2009) 21(1) Canadian J.W. & L. 197
• “The Marginalizing Effect of Deductibility of Welfare Benefits” (2009), 44 Supreme Court Law Rev. (2d) 37
• “Postcard from Edge of Empire” (co-author) (2008), 17(1) J. Soc & Legal Stud. 5
• “Accountability of Public Authorities through Contextualized Determinations of Vicarious Liability and Non-Delegable Duties” (2007), 57 Univ. of New Brunswick L.J., 46 -83
• “Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: Balancing Offenders’ Needs, Victims and Society’s Interests and Decolonization of Aboriginal Peoples” (2007), 19.1 Can. J. Women & L, 179 - 216
• “Righting Past Wrongs through Contextualization: Assessing Claims of Aboriginal Survivors of Historical and Institutional Abuse” (2007), 25(1) Windsor Y.B. Access Just. 95 -134
• Protecting the Dignity and Autonomy of Women: Rethinking the Place of Constructive Consent in the tort of Sexual Battery” (2006) 39:1 U.B.C. L. Rev. 3
• “Replicating and Perpetuating Inequalities in Personal Injury Claims through Female-Specific Contingencies” (2004) 49 McGill L. J. 309-348
• “Measurement of Damages for Interference with Property Interests in Torts and Contracts” (2003), 26 Advocates’ Quarterly, 391
• “Significance and Consequences of Parental Responsibility Legislation” (2002), 17 Supreme Court L. Rev. (2d), 221-268 (Special edition in honour of Mr. Justice Allen Linden’s contribution and commitment to tort law)
• “Social Host Liability: A Logical Extension of Commercial Host Liability?” (2002) 65(2) Sask. L. Rev. 515 “Contemporary Approaches to Compensating Female Tort Victims for Incapacity to Work” (2000) 38(2) Alberta Law Review, 504

Other Publications

• “Protecting the Interests of the Innocent Insured” 31(33) Lawyers Weekly, January 13, 2012
• Reforming the Disclosure Duty in Insurance Contracts” Lawyers Weekly, August 20, 2010
• How Genetic Information Might Affect Access to Insurance, 29(14) Lawyers Weekly, August, 21
• “Deducting Welfare Benefits may Unfairly Impact Aboriginal Claimants” The Lawyers Weekly, June 24, 2005
• “Social Justice in Private Law” 3(3) Purple Prose - Scholarship Show Case (February, 2005)

Curriculum Vitae

CV-E. Adjin-Tettey

Research

Learn more about Professor Adjin-Tettey's research on the Social Science Research Network.