An open issue guest edited by the Centre for Constitutional Studies' 2025 summer students: Areeba Ismail, Maria Kalapurayil, and Nicole Ibalio.
This special issue flows from a workshop co-organized by the uOttawa Public Law Centre and the Centre for Constitutional Studies (uAlberta), held at uOttawa in March 2024. The workshop brought together a small group of constitutional experts to talk about Rosalind Dixon's landmark monograph, Responsive Judicial Review. This special issue comprises written versions of papers first presented at that workshop, along with a response to these papers from Professor Dixon.
This issue gathers together papers from participants in a CCS workshop on the horizontal effect of Charter rights, held at UBC 's Allard School of Law in January 2024. The workshop addressed issues surrounding the case of Cool World v Twitter, which involves a PR firm contesting Twitter's refusal to run paid ads for a client by arguing that Twitter's common law rights should be applied in a way that's consistent with the Charter value of free expression. Some of the papers address Cool World directly, while others address the surrounding legal framework derived from RWDSU v Dolphin Delivery and Hill v Church of Scientology. All engage with questions about the manner in which the Charter applies and should apply to private legal relations.
An open issue of the Forum featuring contributions from Joel Bakan, Angela Fernandez, Robert Diab, and Paul Chartrand.
This open issue of the Forum was guest edited by the Centre for Constitutional Studies' summer students, 2024 (Krystin Hoffart, Laura McKenzie, and Saloni Sharma).
This special issue, guest edited by Professor Colton Fehr (U Sask College of Law), grapples with the Supreme Court of Canada's recent decisions on the relationship between criminal sentencing and the Charter, including decisions like Bissonnette, Sharma, and Hills.
This issue of the Constitutional Forum examines the future of the notwithstanding clause in light of the recent uptick in its usage by provincial governments. It is guest edited by Professors Margot Young and Hoi Kong (UBC, Allard School of Law) and grew out of a workshop hosted at UBC in February 2023. It also features a special foreward by the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Special Issue: Legacies of Patriation. This special issue of the Forum flows from an April 2022 conference that was co-organized by the Centre for Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta, the Public Law Centre at the University of Ottawa, the Centre d’analyze politique: constitution et fédéralisme at l’Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. View the conference program and session recordings here: https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/conferences-and-symposia/legacies-of-patriation/.
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