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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Emmett Macfarlane |
| ISBN: | 1487523157 9781487523152 9781487504120 1487504128 |
| OCLC Number: | 1089016233 |
| Notes: | Comprend un index. |
| Description: | ix, 448 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction. Judicial policy impact in Canada / Emmet Macfarlane -- Lessons from public policy theories : ask about policy change first, courts second / Minh Do -- Closing a door but opening a policy window : legislating assisted dying in Canada / Dave Snow and Kate Puddister -- The Supreme Court of Canada, judicial remedies, and punctuated equilibrium / Marc Zanoni -- The Charter, policy, and political judgment / Janet L. Hiebert -- Collaborative federalism and the role of the Supreme Court of Canada / Robert Schertzer -- The impact of constitutional references on institutional reform / Kate Glover Berger -- The desuetude of the notwithstanding clause -- and how to revive it / Richard Albert -- The Charter beat : the impact of rights decisions on Canadian policing / Troy Riddell and Dennis Baker -- Protecting against cruel and unusual punishment : Section 12 of the Charter and mandatory minimum sentences / Kate Puddister -- Third party policy and electoral participation after Harper v. Canada : a triumph of egalitarianism? / Erin Crandall and Andrea Lawlor -- Section 23 of the Charter and official-language minority instruction in Canada : the judiciary's impact and limits in education policymaking / Stéphanie Chouinard -- The Charter of the French language and the Supreme Court of Canada : assessing whether constitutional design can influence policy outcomes / James B. Kelly -- When is a citizen no longer a citizen? Analysing constructions of citizenship in Canada's judicial and legislative forums / Megan Gaucher -- Taking the Harper government's refugee policy to court / Christopher G. Anderson and Dagmar Soennecken -- Carter conflicts : the Supreme Court of Canada's impact on medical assistance in dying policy / Eleni Nicolaides and Matthew Hennigar -- Canadian abortion policy and the limitations of litigation / Rachael Johnstone -- Contrasting visions of Indigenous rights, recognition, and territory : assessing Crown policy in the context of reconciliation and historic obligations / Michael McCrossan -- After marriage equality : courting queer and trans rights / Kyle Kirkup -- Conclusion. Policy influence and its influence and its limits : assessing the power of courts and the Constitution. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Emmett Macfarlane. |
Abstract:
Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution examines the impact of courts and various constitutional provisions on a wide range of policy issues, including health care, immigration and refugee policy, citizenship, the rights of Indigenous peoples, and criminal justice policy.
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"Why, when, and how courts make policy is not only grist for law faculties and practitioners. Public policy effects change in Canada - and occasionally that change is truly uncharted...The questions posed in this book are fundamental." -- Michael Bryant * Literary Review of Canada, Vol 27, no. 2 * Read more...
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- Constitutional law -- Canada.
- Courts -- Canada.
- Social legislation -- Canada.
- Sociological jurisprudence -- Canada.
- Canada -- Social policy.
- Droit social -- Canada.
- Sociologie juridique -- Canada.
- Droit constitutionnel -- Canada.
- Tribunaux -- Canada.
- Canada -- Politique sociale.
- Constitutional law.
- Courts.
- Social legislation.
- Social policy.
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Canada.
- Politique sociale -- Canada.
