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This collection seeks to excavate and explain a variety of foundational elements of the Canadian Constitution.

Interpreting the standards listed in section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, has proven a difficult task, one which courts, decisionmakers, and legislatures have wrestled with over the first four decades of Charter jurisprudence. This collection offers fresh, innovative, and insightful perspectives on these challenges, and on the proper scope, contours, and limits of rights and freedoms.

Interpreting the standards listed in section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, has proven a difficult task, one which courts, decisionmakers, and legislatures have wrestled with over the first four decades of Charter jurisprudence. This collection offers fresh, innovative, and insightful perspectives on these challenges, and on the proper scope, contours, and limits of rights and freedoms.

This text comprises a collection of papers examining how government and decision-makers approach issues related to competing morals and values, and how such differences may be accommodated in a free and democratic society. The issues explored are becoming intensely pertinent as Canada’s religious diversity increases, the state expands into areas traditionally seen as private, and state actors seek to promote certain 'values'.

This collection of 13 papers examines many of the freedoms listed in section 2 of the Charter that have been “forgotten” in the sense that they have not received (much) interpretation in jurisprudence or discussion in legal scholarship.

This Supreme Court Law Review volume, comprising 13 papers developed out of a national academic symposium held in September 2017, examines the social, ethical and legal implications of the Carter I and Carter II decisions and offers meaningful reflections to the many perplexing questions currently being asked about MAiD.

This text comprises a collection of papers examining how government and decision-makers approach issues related to competing morals and values, and how such differences may be accommodated in a free and democratic society. The issues explored are becoming intensely pertinent as Canada’s religious diversity increases, the state expands into areas traditionally seen as private, and state actors seek to promote certain ‘values’.

This collection of 13 papers examines many of the freedoms listed in section 2 of the Charter that have been “forgotten” in the sense that they have not received (much) interpretation in jurisprudence or discussion in legal scholarship.

This special collection offers Canadian and international perspectives on the theme of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This collection seeks to excavate and explain a variety of foundational elements of the Canadian Constitution. Some of these elements reside in the text, some beneath it, and some only come into focus when the written and unwritten portions of the Constitution speak to each other.