Joanna Harrington | Law professor | University of Alberta
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2004 98-1 AJIL
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Experts, Networks and International Law
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The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution
2017 66-1 ICLQ
International Law
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Books
  • H. Cullen, J. Harrington & C. Renshaw, eds, Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) (298 pages). DOI
  • J.H. Currie, C. Forcese, J. Harrington & V. Oosterveld, International Law: Doctrine, Practice, and Theory, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2014) (963 pages). Online here.
  • J. Harrington, M. Milde & R. Vernon, eds, Bringing Power to Justice? The Prospects of the International Criminal Court (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006) (265 pages).​

Legal reference works
  • J. Harrington, Halsbury’s Laws of Canada - Public International Law: 2019 Reissue (Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2019)​ (296 pages).
  • J. Harrington, Halsbury’s Laws of Canada - Public International Law: 2014 Reissue (Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2014)​ (260 pages).
  • J. Harrington, Halsbury’s Laws of Canada - Public International Law (Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2010) (260 pages).

Journal articles
  • J. Harrington, “Providing for Victim Redress within the Legislative Scheme for Tackling Foreign Corruption” (2020) 43:1 Dalhousie Law Journal 245-280. Open access here.
  • J. Harrington, “Extradition, Assurances, and Human Rights: Guidance from the Supreme Court of Canada in India v. Badesha” (2019) 88 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 273-293. Open access here.
  • J. Harrington, “Addressing the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials: Developments and Challenges within the Canadian Legal Landscape” (2018) 56 The Canadian Yearbook of International Law 98-143. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “The Working Methods of the United Nations Security Council: Maintaining the Implementation of Change” (2017) 66:1 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 39-77. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “Responsibility while protecting and the impact on responsibility to protect” (2013) 8:1-2 Chinese Review of International Law 79-93 (translated into Chinese).
  • J. Harrington, “Exploring the ‘Canadian’ in The Canadian Yearbook of International Law” (2012) 50 The Canadian Yearbook of International Law 3-33. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “Canada and the United Nations Human Rights Council: Dissent and Division” (2010) 60:1 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 78-115, available here.
  • J. Harrington, “Canadian Treaty Practice and the Disabilities Convention” (2010) 42:3-4 Hosei Riron: The Journal of Law & Politics 146-166.
  • J. Harrington, “Canada, the United Nations Human Rights Council, and Universal Periodic Review” (2009) 18:2 Constitutional Forum constitutionnel 79-93, available here and here.
  • J. Harrington, “Peace in Northern Ireland and the Remaining Issue of the On-the-Runs” (2009) 10:1 Human Rights Review 5-34.
  • J. Harrington, “Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Right to be Cold” (2007) 18:3 Fordham Environmental Law Review 513-535, available here.
  • J. Harrington, “The Democratic Challenge of Incorporation: International Human Rights Treaties and National Constitutions” (2007) 38:2 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 217-235, available here.
  • J. Harrington, “The Absent Dialogue: Extradition and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” (2006) 32:1 Queen’s Law Journal 82-134, available here.
  • J. Harrington, “Scrutiny and Approval: The Role for Westminster-style Parliaments in Treaty-Making” (2006) 55:1 International & Comparative Law Quarterly 121-159. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “The Role for Human Rights Obligations in Canadian Extradition Law” [2005] 43 The Canadian Yearbook of International Law 45-100. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “Redressing the Democratic Deficit in Treaty Law Making: (Re-) Establishing a Role for Parliament” (2005) 50:3 McGill Law Journal 465-509, available here.
  • J. Harrington, “The British Approach to Interpretation and Deference in Rights Adjudication” (2004) 23 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 269-303; also published as a chapter in G. Huscroft & I. Brodie, eds, Constitutionalism in the Charter Era (Markham, ON: LexisNexis, 2004) at 269-303.
  • J. Harrington, “The Challenge to the Mandatory Death Penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean” (2004) 98:1 American Journal of International Law 126-140. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “Punting Terrorists, Assassins and Other Undesirables: Canada, the Human Rights Committee and Requests for Interim Measures of Protection” (2003) 48:1 McGill Law Journal 55-87, available here.
  • J. Harrington, “Making Sense of Equality Law: A Review of the Hepple Report” (2001) 64:5 Modern Law Review 757-766.
  • J. Harrington, “Rights Brought Home: The United Kingdom Adopts a ‘Charter of Rights’” (2000-2001) 11:4 Constitutional Forum constitutionnel 105-111, available here and here.

Book chapters
  • J. Harrington, "The Making of Modern International Extradition Law” in N. Boister, S. Gless & F. Jeßberger, eds, Histories of Transnational Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), ch 20 (in press).
  • J. Harrington, "Canada and International Law: Supporting a Rules-based Approach to International Relations" in R.W. Murray & P. Gecelovsky, eds, The Palgrave Handbook of Canada in International Affairs (Berlin: Springer, 2021), ch 12 (in press).
  • J. Harrington, “The Legitimacy of Interim Measures from the Perspective of a State: The Example of Canada” in E. Rieter & K. Zwaan, eds, Urgency and Human Rights: The Protective Potential and Legitimacy of Interim Measures (The Hague: TMC Asser Press, 2021) at 115-134.
  • J. Harrington, “Interpreting the Charter” in P. Oliver, P. Macklem & N. Des Rosiers, eds, The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) at 621-638. DOI
  • H. Cullen, J. Harrington & C. Renshaw, “Experts, Networks and International Law” in H. Cullen, J. Harrington & C. Renshaw, eds, Experts, Networks and International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) at 1-18. DOI
  • J. Harrington, “Use of force, rule-of-law restraints, and process: Unfinished business for the responsibility to protect concept” in J. Farrall & H. Charlesworth, eds, Strengthening the Rule of Law through the UN Security Council (London: Routledge, 2016) at 224-238.
  • J. Harrington, “Monitoring and the Referral of Criminal Cases between Jurisdictions: An ICTR Contribution to Best Practice” in C.C. Jalloh & A.B.M. Marong, eds, Promoting Accountability Under International Law for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa: Essays in Honour of Prosecutor Hassan B. Jallow (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Brill, 2015) at 478-497.
  • J. Harrington, “Extradition of Transnational Criminals” in N. Boister & R.J. Currie, eds, Routledge Handbook of Transnational Criminal Law (London: Routledge, 2014) at 153-166.
  • J. Harrington, “R2P and Natural Disasters” in W.A. Knight & F. Egerton, eds, The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect (London: Routledge, 2012) at 141-151.
  • J. Harrington, “The Role for Parliament in Treaty-Making” in O. Fitzgerald, et al, eds, The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006) at 159-199.
  • J. Harrington, “The Role for Parliaments in Treaty-Making” in H. Charlesworth, et al, eds, The Fluid State: International Law and National Legal Systems (Sydney: Federation Press, 2005) at 34-56.
  • J. Harrington, “How Canadian Lawyers can contribute to the Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights Committee” in The Measure of International Law: Effectiveness, Fairness and Validity (The Hague: Kluwer Law, 2004) at 132-154.
  • J. Harrington, “Article 2 - Right to Life” in Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC & D. Pannick QC, eds, Human Rights Law and Practice Supplement (London: Butterworths, 2000) at 19-26.
  • J. Harrington & N. Mole, “Article 2 - Right to Life” in Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC & D. Pannick QC, eds, Human Rights Law and Practice (London: Butterworths, 1999) at 79-92.
  • J. Harrington, T.L. McDorman & W.A.W. Neilson, “The 1992 Vietnamese Constitution: Economic Reform, Political Continuity” in D.M. Johnston & G. Ferguson, eds, Asia-Pacific Legal Development (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1998) at 243-266.

Recent commentaries
  • J. Harrington, "A plea for redress: Fines paid in corporate settlement deals must do more for the victims of foreign corruption," CBA National magazine (Canadian Bar Association) (7 October 2020), online: https://nationalmagazine.ca/
  • J. Harrington, "Ending side deals would help address gender pay gap at Canadian universities," CBC News (5 October 2020), online: https://www.cbc.ca/news
  • J. Harrington, “Lost in the SNC-Lavalin controversy are the Libyan victims,” Policy Options: The Magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (21 August 2019), online: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/
  • J. Harrington, “SNC-Lavalin: voici pourquoi nous devrions revoir les lois canadiennes sur la corruption à l'étranger,” La Conversation (Canada) (28 February 2019), online: https://theconversation.com/ca-fr
  • J. Harrington, “SNC-Lavalin case shows why we should review Canada’s foreign corruption laws,” The Conversation (Canada) (26 February 2019), republished in the National Post (27 February 2019), online: https://theconversation.com
  • J. Harrington, “Extradition with China, Human Rights and Parliament’s Role,” Canadian International Council (3 October 2016), online: http://thecic.org/
  • J. Harrington, “From the UK, a lesson for Canada on judicial appointments,” The Globe and Mail (29 July 2015), online: https://www.theglobeandmail.com

​Contributions to casebooks
  • J. Harrington, “Charter Origins and Interpretation” in L.I. Rotman, B.P. Elman & G.L. Gall, eds, Constitutional Law: Cases, Commentary and Principles (Toronto: Carswell, 2008) at 769-796.
  • J. Harrington, “Treaty Making and Treaty Implementation” in L.I. Rotman, B.P. Elman & G.L. Gall, eds, Constitutional Law: Cases, Commentary and Principles (Toronto: Carswell, 2008) at 581-602.

Journal special issue
  • C. Forcese & J. Harrington, eds, International Law and Democratic Considerations, a special issue of the Alberta Law Review (vol. 46, no. 4) (2009).

Papers in conference proceedings
  • J. Harrington, “Applying Public Law Principles to the UN Human Rights Bodies: Supporting the Call for Change to Working Methods”, Centre for Public Law Biennial Conference, University of Cambridge, 2016.
  • J. Harrington, “Illuminations or Further Complexities? The Role of the Human Rights Treaty-Monitoring Bodies”, Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford, 2015.
  • J. Harrington, “A Perspective from the Americas on Interim Measures of Protection”, Urgency and Human Rights Conference, Radboud University, 2015.
  • J. Harrington, “China, the Responsibility to Protect, and an Opportunity for Leadership?”, ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, 2013.
  • J. Harrington, "The New National Standard for the Canadian Common Law Degree: What place for internationalization in our strategic planning?", IALS Conference on Teaching, Legal Education and Strategic Planning, 2011, online: www.ialsnet.org
  • J. Harrington, “Citing the ‘Foreign Law’ that is not so Foreign: International Human Rights Treaties and National Constitutions”, Faculty of Law Colloquium on Interpreting the Constitution, Western University, 2006.

Parliamentary submissions
  • J. Harrington, Written evidence to the House of Lords EU Select Committee International Agreements Sub-Committee for its inquiry into "Treaty scrutiny: working practices" (11 June 2020), UK Parliament Reference No TWP0001.
  • J. Harrington, Written evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution for its inquiry into the parliamentary scrutiny of treaties (19 December 2018), UK Parliament Reference No PST0018.

Work in French
  • J. Harrington, “Le rôle du parlement dans la conclusion des trait­­és” in O. Fitzgerald, et al, eds, Règle de Droit et Mondialisation: Rapports entre le droit international et le droit interne (Cowansville, QC: Éditions Yvon Blais, 2006) at 201-252.

Works in Chinese
  • J. Harrington, “Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Right to be Cold” (2014) 45 National Chung Cheng University Law Journal 1-37.
  • J. Harrington, “Responsibility While Protecting and the Impact on Responsibility to Protect” (2013) 8:1-2 Chinese Review of International Law 79-93.

​Book reviews
  • J. Harrington, Review of J.G. Merrills, International Dispute Settlement, 6th ed, in (2017) 55 The Canadian Yearbook of International Law 672-676. DOI
  • J. Harrington, Review of S. Allen & A. Xanthaki, Reflections on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in (2010) 48 The Canadian Yearbook of International Law 588-594. DOI
  • J. Harrington, Review of I. Okonta & O. Douglas, Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in (2005) 17Journal of Environmental Law 297-298.
  • J. Harrington, Review of R.B. Howe & D. Johnson, Restraining Equality: Human Rights Commissions in Canada in (2001) 11 International Criminal Justice Review 133-134.
  • J. Harrington, Review of C. Douzinas, The End of Human Rights: Critical Legal Thought at the Turn of the Century in (2001) 14 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 273-274. DOI
  • J. Harrington, Review of R. Morgan & M.D. Evans, Protecting Prisoners: The Standards of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Context in (2000) LXXI British Yearbook of International Law 393-394.
  • J. Harrington, Review of M.D. Evans & R. Morgan, Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture in (1999) LXX British Yearbook of International Law 253-254.
  • J. Harrington, Review of D.J. Harris & S. Livingstone, eds, The Inter-American System of Human Rights in [1999] Cambridge Law Journal 446-448.
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