Law, Politics, and the Judicial Process in Canada, 4th Edition.

Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Full Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the New Edition -- 1. The Rule of Law in the Canadian Constitution -- 1.1 Roncarelli v. Duplessis -- 1.2 Of the Extent of the Legislative Power -- 1.3 The Declaration of Independence -- 1.4 The Rule of Law -- 1.5 Strong- and Weak-Form Judicial Review -- 1.6 Liberal versus Post-Liberal Constitutionalism: Applying the Charter to Civil Society (Updated) -- 1.7 Key Terms -- 2. Political Jurisprudence -- 2.1 Two Models of Judicial Decision-Making -- 2.2 Harrison v. Carswell -- 2.3 Will Women Judges Really Make a Difference? -- 2.4 Re Constitution of Canada, 1981: The Patriation Reference -- 2.5 The Exemplar of the Secession Reference -- 2.6 No Statecraft, Questionable Jurisprudence: How the Supreme Court Tried to Kill Senate Reform -- 2.7 Key Terms -- 3. The Canadian Judicial System -- 3.1 The Role and Functions of Final Appellate Courts: The Supreme Court of Canada -- 3.2 Constitution Act, 1867, Sections 96-101 -- 3.3 The Canadian Judicial System -- 3.4 The Criminal and Civil Court Processes -- 3.5 Key Terms -- 4. Judicial Recruitment and Selection -- 4.1 Patronage in Judicial Appointments -- 4.2 Exploring the Links between Party and Appointment: Canadian Federal Judicial Appointments from 1989 to 2003 -- 4.3 Diversity Among Federal and Provincial Judges -- 4.4 The Politics of Judicial Appointment: Do Party Connections Impede the Appointment of Women to Canada's Federally Appointed Courts? -- 4.5 The Honourable Malcolm Rowe's Questionnaire -- 4.6 A Judge Unbound -- 4.7 Key Terms -- 5. Judicial Independence, Ethics and Discipline -- 5.1 The Independence of the Judiciary -- 5.2 The Berger Affair -- 5.3 The Meaning and Scope of Judicial Independence -- 5.4 The McClung Affair -- 5.5 Reference re Remuneration of Judges of the Provincial Court (P.E.I.).

5.6 A Self-Harming of Judicial Independence: The Legacy of the Inquiry into Lori Douglas -- 5.7 The Inquiry into Justice Robin Camp -- 5.8 For Judge 'knees together' Camp: Education is power -- 5.9 Bad People Make Bad Judges -- 5.10 Key Terms -- 6. Interest Groups and Accessto Judicial Power -- 6.1 The Canadian Reference Power -- 6.2 Interventions and the Public Interest -- 6.3 The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund -- 6.4 The Policy Consequences of LEAF's Legal Mobilization -- 6.5 Interest Group Litigation and Canadian Democracy -- 6.6 Response to Gregory Hein -- 6.7 Defending the Court Challenges Program -- 6.8 The Court Challenges Program Rises Once Again -- 6.9 Do Bills of Rights Matter? -- 6.10 Do Constitutions Matter? -- 6.11 Key Terms -- 7. Precedents, Statutes and Legal Reasoning -- 7.1 Stare Decisis: The Use of Precedents -- 7.2 Architect of the Common Law -- 7.3 Boucher v. The King -- 7.4 Fact Finding in Adjudication -- 7.5 Stare Decisis and Social Facts in the Charter Era -- 7.6 Key Terms -- 8. Judicial Decision-Making -- 8.1 Decision-Making in the Supreme Court -- 8.2 The Charter by the Numbers -- 8.3 Studying Judicial Behaviour -- 8.4 The Three Waves of Post-Charter Supreme Court Scholarship -- 8.5 Key Terms -- 9. Judicial Review and Federalism -- 9.1 The Origins of Judicial Review in Canada -- 9.2 The "Living Tree" Approach to Interpreting the BNA Act -- 9.3 The "Watertight Compartments" Approach toInterpreting the BNA Act -- 9.4 The Anti-Inflation Case: The Anatomy of a Constitutional Decision -- 9.5 Does Federalism Review Matter? -- 9.6 Criminal Law, Federalism, and Assisted Reproduction -- 9.7 Key Terms -- 10. Aboriginal Law and Judicial Review -- 10.1 Political Failure, Judicial Opportunity: The Supreme Court of Canada and Aboriginal and Treaty Rights -- 10.2 The Durability of Terra Nullius: Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia.

10.3 Is the Sky the Limit? Aboriginal Legal Rights in Resource Development -- 10.4 "Aboriginal-Crown Relations and the Duty to Consult in the Supreme Court" -- 10.5 Her Majesty's Justice Be Done: Métis Legal Mobilization and the Pitfalls to Indigenous Political Movement Building -- 10.6 Key Terms -- 11. The Harper Conservatives and the Canadian Judiciary -- 11.1 Stephen Harper's Courts: How the Judiciary Has Been Remade -- 11.2 The Politics of Reforming Judicial Appointments -- 11.3 Packing the Supreme Court -- 11.4 Much Ado About Little -- 11.5 Harper's Petard? The Relationship between the Courts and the Executive under the Conservative Government -- 11.6 Marc Nadon and the New Politics of Judicial Appointment -- 11.7 Stephen Harper v. Beverly McLachlin -- 11.8 Dissent From Within at the Supreme Court of Canada -- 11.9 Conservatives, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Constitution: Judicial-Government Relations, 2006-2015 -- 11.10 Key Terms -- 12. Reconciling Judicial Review and Constitutional Democracy -- 12.1 Courts, Legislatures, and the Protection of Human Rights -- 12.2 Unwritten Constitutional Principles: What is Going On? -- 12.3 Judicial Review and Civil Liberties -- 12.4 What's Wrong with the Charter Revolution and the Court Party? -- 12.5 The Notwithstanding Clause: The Charter's Homage to Parliamentary Democracy -- 12.6 Saskatchewan Uses the Notwithstanding Clause -- 12.7 Dialogue or Monologue? Hogg and Thornton versus Morton -- 12.8 Checking the Court: Justifying Parliament's Role in Constitutional Interpretation -- 12.9T he Charter and Canada's New Political Culture: Are We All Ambassadors Now? -- 12.10 Key Terms -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- Index -- Untitled.

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