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September 2019
SCHRODINGER’S SENATE: EXPERIMENTS IN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM HON. PAULA SIMONS, SENATOR From the moment the Senate of Canada was created, 151 years ago, Canadians have been arguing over its responsibilities, [...]
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Anna Lund, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, will discuss how housing is a basic necessity. Earlier this year, the federal government recognized that it "is essential [...]
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Professor Carissima Mathen, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa Courts usually decide cases: live disputes involving spirited, adversarial debate between opposing parties. Sometimes, though, a court is asked to to [...]
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Professor Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin Virtually all constitutions codify amendment rules. The Constitution of [...]
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Professor Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School Administrative tribunals have historically played a primary role interpreting and applying the Constitution. However, this fundamental role is often underestimated, misunderstood, and [...]
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Colton Fehr, sessional instructor and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, will tell you how the vague sounding "principles of fundamental justice" in Section 7 of the [...]
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