The Canadian Constitution in Transition

The Canadian Constitution in Transition
Author: Richard Albert
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1487519125

The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act. Anniversaries like these are often seized upon as opportunities for retrospection. This volume, by contrast, takes a distinctively forward-looking approach. Featuring essays from both emerging and established scholars, The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come. Moving beyond the frameworks that previous generations used to organize constitutional thinking, the scholars in this volume highlight new and innovative approaches to perennial problems, and seek new insights on where constitutional law is heading. Featuring fresh scholarship from contributors who will lead the constitutional conversation in the years ahead - and who represent the gender, ethnic, linguistic, and demographic make-up of contemporary Canada - The Canadian Constitution in Transition enriches our understanding of the Constitution of Canada, and uses various methodological approaches to chart the course toward the bicentennial.

The Canadian Constitution in Transition

The Canadian Constitution in Transition
Author: Richard Albert
Publisher: Toronto Italian Studies
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019
Genre: LAW
ISBN: 9781487503949

The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come.

Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions

Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions
Author: George Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0192573616

This collection of essays surveys the full range of challenges that territorial conflicts pose for constitution-making processes and constitutional design. It provides seventeen in-depth case studies of countries going through periods of intense constitutional engagement in a variety of contexts: small distinct territories, bi-communal countries, highly diverse countries with many politically salient regions, and countries where territorial politics is important but secondary to other bases for political mobilization. Specific examples are drawn from Iraq, Kenya, Cyprus, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the UK (Scotland), Ukraine, Bolivia, India, Spain, Yemen, Nepal, Ethiopia, Indonesia (Aceh), the Philippines (Mindanao), and Bosnia-Herzegovina. While the volume draws significant normative conclusions, it is based on a realist view of the complexity of territorial and other political cleavages (the country's "political geometry"), and the power configurations that lead into periods of constitutional engagement. Thematic chapters on constitution-making processes and constitutional design draw original conclusions from the comparative analysis of the case studies and relate these to the existing literature, both in political science and comparative constitutional law. This volume is essential reading for scholars of federalism, consociational power-sharing arrangements, asymmetrical devolution, and devolution more generally. The combination of in-depth case studies and broad thematic analysis allows for analytical and normative conclusions that will be of major relevance to practitioners and advisors engaged in constitutional design.

Canada in the World

Canada in the World
Author: Richard Albert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108419739

Marking the Sesquicentennial of Confederation in Canada, this book examines the growing global influence of Canada's Constitution and Supreme Court on courts confronting issues involving human rights.

From Recognition to Reconciliation

From Recognition to Reconciliation
Author: Patrick Macklem
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1442628855

In From Recognition to Reconciliation, twenty leading scholars reflect on the continuing transformation of the constitutional relationship between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state.

Constitutional Dialogue

Constitutional Dialogue
Author: Geoffrey Sigalet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2019-05-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108417582

Identifies how and why 'dialogue' can describe and evaluate institutional interactions over constitutional questions concerning democracy and rights.

Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada

Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada
Author: Patrick Macklem
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780802080493

An investigation of the unique constitutional relationship between Aboriginal people and the Canadian state, a relationship that does not exist between Canada and other Canadians.

Constitutional Amendments

Constitutional Amendments
Author: Richard Albert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-07-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0190640499

Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change. Drawing from dozens of constitutions in every region of the world, this book blends theory with practice to answer two all-important questions: what is an amendment and how should constitutional designers structure the procedures of constitutional change? The first matters now more than ever. Reformers are exploiting the rules of constitutional amendment, testing the limits of legal constraint, undermining the norms of democratic government, and flouting the constitution as written to create entirely new constitutions that masquerade as ordinary amendments. The second question is central to the performance and endurance of constitutions. Constitutional designers today have virtually no resources to guide them in constructing the rules of amendment, and scholars do not have a clear portrait of the significance of amendment rules in the project of constitutionalism. This book shows that no part of a constitution is more important than the procedures we use change it. Amendment rules open a window into the soul of a constitution, exposing its deepest vulnerabilities and revealing its greatest strengths. The codification of amendment rules often at the end of the text proves that last is not always least.