Conference

How Exceptional is Judicial Review in Canada? Past, Present and Future

28 February 2018, noon Berkeley Canadian Studies Program Colloquium Series Canadian constitutional law / comparative constitutional law

In the vast majority of legal systems, judicial review has become the principal mechanism through which most constitutional debates are eventually settled or at least receive some form of resolution. However, the terms of our national constitutions seldom provide for how the courts are to scrutinize the laws challenged before them. In Canada, the modern […] Read more

Book

Droit constitutionnel canadien : principes fondamentaux

2016 Canadian constitutional law

Abstract In 1982, Professors François Chevrette and Herbert Marx published a pioneering work: Droit constitutionnel: notes et jurisprudence (P.U.M.) 1264 pages, a monumental resource allying pedagogy with doctrinal reference. Thirty-four years later, a new edition of the first part of the celebrated work has finally been published, covering the fundamental principles of Canadian constitutional law (except the […] Read more

Conference

Retour sur la Déclaration des droits implicite [Revisiting the Implied Bill of Rights Theory]

14 September 2012 First Annual Beetz-Laskin Conference on Constitutional Law Canadian constitutional law

In 1867, the Framers did not include a bill of rights in the Constitution Act. Canada’s constitutional bill of rights, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, would only be passed more than a hundred years later. Meanwhile, some judges sought to protect certain individual rights and freedoms, mainly freedom of expression, from undue legislative […] Read more