Rethinking Federalism
Citizens, Markets, and Governments in a Changing World
Interdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores federalism in the 1990s, bringing together leading scholars from law, economics, sociology, and political science to comment on federalism's strengths, weaknesses, and potential in a variety of contexts.
- Copyright year: 1995
Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court
Legal Mobilization and the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
A cogent analysis of legal mobilization as a strategy for social and activist movements.
- Copyright year: 2004
Limiting Arbitrary Power
The Vagueness Doctrine in Canadian Constitutional Law
The first full-length study of the void-for-vagueness doctrine and its implications in Canadian constitutional law.
- Copyright year: 2004
Insiders and Outsiders
Alan Cairns and the Reshaping of Canadian Citizenship
Insiders and Outsiders celebrates the work of Alan Cairns, one of the most influential Canadian social scientists of the contemporary period.
- Copyright year: 2004
Tournament of Appeals
Granting Judicial Review in Canada
Drawing from systematically collected information on the process, applications, and lawyers that has never before been used in studies of Canada’s Supreme Court, this book offers both a qualitatively and quantitatively-based explanation of how Canada’s justices grant judicial review.
- Copyright year: 2004
Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation
Migration Laws in Canada and Australia
Catherine Dauvergne examines the relationship between migration laws and national identities and highlights the role of humanitarianism in this linkage.
- Copyright year: 2005
Governing with the Charter
Legislative and Judicial Activism and Framers' Intent
Has parliamentary democracy been weakened by judicial responses to the Charter?
- Copyright year: 2005
Last Word
Media Coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada
Media coverage of the Supreme Court of Canada has emerged as a crucial factor not only for judges and journalists but also for the public. It’s the media, after all, that decide which court rulings to cover and how ...
- Copyright year: 2005
Courts and Federalism
Judicial Doctrine in the United States, Australia, and Canada
Examining recent developments in the judicial review of federalism through detailed surveys of the United States, Australia, and Canada, this book urges political scientists to take courts and judicial reasoning more seriously in their accounts of federal government.
- Copyright year: 2006
Misrecognized Materialists
Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics
A book with provocative implications for students and scholars of social movements and identity politics, Misrecognized Materialists offers a fresh and important perspective on Canada’s constitutional struggles over civic symbolism and identity.
- Copyright year: 2006
Let Right Be Done
Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights
- Copyright year: 2007
Multiculturalism and the Canadian Constitution
The essays illustrate how deeply multiculturalism is woven into the fabric of the Canadian constitution and the everyday lives of Canadians.
- Copyright year: 2007
Contested Constitutionalism
Reflections on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Contested Constitutionalism is a critique of Canadian democracy, judicial power, and the place of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples within the federation, all of which have been altered by the Charter’s introduction in 1982.
- Copyright year: 2009
Constitutional Politics in Canada after the Charter
Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Systemism
The first systematic analysis of general theories about Canada’s post-Charter constitutional evolution.
- Copyright year: 2010
Between Consenting Peoples
Political Community and the Meaning of Consent
This book examines how consent might be understood as the foundation of legal and political community, especially in relations between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples.
- Copyright year: 2010
Storied Communities
Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community
An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Perils of Identity
Group Rights and the Politics of Intragroup Difference
Caroline Dick asks how group identity claims, especially in the courts, obscure significant intragroup differences.
- Copyright year: 2011
Principles of Tsawalk
An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis
Hereditary chief Umeek weaves together Nuu-chah-nulth and Western worldviews to revitalize contemporary approaches to the environment and the plight of indigenous peoples.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Environmental Rights Revolution
A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment
David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and environmental protection.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Right to a Healthy Environment
Revitalizing Canada's Constitution
Renowned environmental lawyer David R. Boyd argues that Canada must constitutionalize environmental rights and responsibilities if it hopes to improve its environmental record.
- Copyright year: 2012