Achieving Unity in the Interpretation of Federal Private Law:
Legal Framework and Fragments of Judicial Discourse

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Journal articles

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• BASTARACHE, Michel, "Les difficultés relatives à la détermination de l'intention législative dans le contexte du bijuridisme et du bilinguisme législatif canadien", in Jean-Claude GÉMAR and Nicholas KASIRER (ed.), Jurilinguistique : entre langues et droits / Jurilinguistics : Between Law and Language, Paris, Éditions juridiques Bruylant / Montréal: Éditions Thémis, 2005.
• BEAULAC, Stéphane and Pierre-André CÔTÉ, "Driedger's "Modern Principe" at the Supreme Court of Canada: Interpretation, Justification, Legitimization", (2006) 40 R.J.T. 131.
• BISSON, Alain-François, "La Disposition préliminaire du Code civil du Québec," (1999) 44 McGill L.J. 539.
• BISSON, Alain-François, "L'interprétation adéquate des lois", in E. CAPPA-ROS (ed.), Mélanges Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Montréal: Wilson & Lafleur, 1989.
• BOHÉMIER, Albert, "Research in Bijuralism: Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act," in The Harmonization of Federal Legislation with Quebec Civil Law and Canadian Bijuralism, Collection of Studies, Department of Justice Canada, 1999, p. 841.
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• DION, Mario, "Harmonization of Federal Law With Quebec Civil Law: Canadian Bijuralism and Its Actualization,"in The Harmonization of Federal Legislation with the Civil Law of the Province of Quebec and Canadian Bijuralism, Second Publication, Ottawa: Department of Justice Canada, 2001, Booklet 1.
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