The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms after Twenty-Five Years

Joseph E. Magnet, F.R.S.C., B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., is one of Canada's most respected constitutional lawyers. He clerked for Chief Justice Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, served as Crown Counsel in Ottawa, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel, Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, and Visiting Professor Université de Paris, France. He has acted as counsel in two hundred constitutional cases in the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada, and the trial and appellate courts of Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba. He has advised the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments on constitutional matters. He is counsel for national Aboriginal organizations, First Nations, language communities, members of the House of Commons and its committees, Senators and Senate Committees, minority groups, corporations and others. Professor Magnet is the author of fourteen books and one-hundred articles on legal subjects, particularly constitutional and Aboriginal law. He has lectured widely in Canada and around the world, and is in frequent demand as a radio, television and op-ed commentator in Canada's major media. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1998.

Bernie Adell is a Professor Emeritus and former Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta in Arts and Law, and has a D.Phil. in labour law from Oxford University. He has served as a labour legislation expert with the International Labour Organization, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Institute of Labour Studies in Geneva, the École de relations industrielles at the University of Montreal, and the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia. He has written widely in labour law and related fields, and he has extensive experience as an arbitrator and mediator. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Faculty Advisor to the Queen's Law Journal, and Academic Director of the Professional Development LL.M. Program in labour and employment law at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has been an editor of the National Labour Law Casebook since its first edition in 1970.