Constitutional, Government & Human Rights Law

This volume dedicates itself to the legacy of The Honourable Justice Marshall Rothstein, who became a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2006 and retired in 2015.

The nine papers included in this special volume examine emerging issues, themes and controversies within the Canadian Law of Obligations, loosely organized around the theme of access to justice.

This volume is a collection of papers that provides analytical commentary on the issues related to community and institutional aspects of religious freedom.

This collection of papers, developed out of Canadian Constitution Foundation's Annual Conference 2015, takes a critical review of recent constitutional law developments in a number of controversial issues of national concern.

The nine papers included in this special volume examine emerging issues, themes and controversies within the Canadian Law of Obligations, loosely organized around the theme of access to justice.

These human rights essays provide a fresh look at the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on the constitutional order and debate a range of topics including dialogue theory, the notwithstanding clause, the roles of courts and legislatures, and constitutional interpretation.

This timely immigration law guidebook addresses an important legal topic – the legal status of non-citizens in Canada. For the first time, an entire text has been devoted to this increasingly significant area within immigration law and policy.

This Year-In-Review volume comprises papers reviewing groundbreaking Supreme Court of Canada's 2016-2017 decisions in criminal law, intellectual property, the law of evidence, and recent developments in the legal profession, along with case comments and special essays.

This title provides a succinct overview of the general principles that apply to the federal employment insurance regime, and the unique income assistance programs that exist in each province and territory.

Grounded on the intuition that the legal profession supports the rule of law, these 6 papers examine the historical perspective on threats to the rule of law, the sufficiency of the current Canadian legal framework to support this ideal and how the principle of stare decisis as observed by the Supreme Court of Canada undermines the spirit of the rule of law.