Search Results for "Brian Bird"

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 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.

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 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 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.