Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution
Author: Emmett Macfarlane
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 461
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1487523157

Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including health care issues, the regulation of elections, criminal justice policy, minority language education, citizenship, refugee policy, human rights legislation, and Indigenous policy. While much of the public law and judicial politics literatures focus on the impact of the constitution and the judicial role, scholarship on courts that makes policy change its central lens of analysis is surprisingly rare. Multidisciplinary in its approach to examining policy issues, this book focuses on specific cases or policy issues through a wide-ranging set of approaches, including the use of interview data, policy analysis, historical and interpretive analysis, and jurisprudential analysis.

The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression

The Constitutional Protection of Freedom of Expression
Author: Richard Moon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780802078360

Moon argues that recognition of the social dynamic of communication is critical to understanding the potential value and harm of language and to addressing questions about the scope and limits on one's rights to freedom of expression.

Just Words

Just Words
Author: Joel Bakan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 080200461X

Joel Bakan argues that the Canadian Charter of Rights (1982) has failed to promote social justice because it is administered by a conservative judiciary and because social and economic conditions constantly interfere with its principles.

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.