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Canadian public law and other exciting things


  • January 31, 2018

    The Charter Conscription

    The trouble with governments forcing citizens to advance their constitutional agendas

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    Constitutional law, Constitutional Theory
    abortion, Charter, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, subsidies
  • January 28, 2018

    The Panglossian Peril

    The dangers of naïve optimism in thinking about constitutional constraint

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    Constitutional Theory
    constitutionalism, empirical turn, proportionality analysis, rights, section 1
  • January 24, 2018

    A “non-constitutional” take on the Canada Summer Jobs Program (by guest blogger Kathryn Chan)

    The Trudeau government’s administration of the Canada Summer Jobs Program has attracted a great deal of criticism in recent weeks.  Controversy swirls around the “detestable attestation”, which requires groups that apply for program funding to attest that both the job [for which they plan to use the funding] and the group’s core mandate respect individual

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  • January 24, 2018

    Chan on the Summer Jobs Programme

    Announcing a guest post on the “attestation” applicants to the federal government’s Summer Jobs Programme must provide

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  • January 22, 2018

    The NZBORA and the Noble Dream

    Introducing my new paper on the whether the idea of dialogue about rights between courts and Parliament makes sense in New Zealand

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    Constitutional law, Constitutional Theory
    dialogue, judicial power, New Zealand, weak-form judicial review
  • January 21, 2018

    The Detestable Attestation

    Thoughts on the federal government’s attempt to make religious groups capitulate to its views on abortion

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    Constitutional law, Law and Religion, Political philosophy
    abortion, Charter, freedom of conscience, Lord Acton, public benefits, unconstitutional conditions
  • January 11, 2018

    The Dunsmuir Decade

    Announcing a joint Administrative Law Matters/Double Aspect blogging symposium on the 10th anniversary of Dunsmuir

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    Administrative Law
    blogging, Dunsmuir
  • December 22, 2017

    Was Lon Fuller an Originalist?

    Some thoughts on Lon Fuller, the Rule of Law, and constitutional interpretation

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    Constitutional Theory, Legal philosophy
    congruence, constitutional interpretation, Fuller, originalism, purposivism, Rule of Law
  • December 19, 2017

    Squaring the Public Law Circle

    Canadian administrative lawyers keep trying to reconcile parliamentary sovereignty and the Rule of Law; they shouldn’t bother

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    Administrative Law, Constitutional law, Constitutional Theory
    accountability, deference, democracy, Parliamentary sovereignty, Rule of Law, standard of review, statutory interpretation
  • December 17, 2017

    Canadian Events in January

    Announcing talks in Montreal and Toronto

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