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Special Issue: The Notwithstanding Clause
Vol. 32 No. 3 (2024)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.
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Constitutional Forum / Forum Constitutionnel
Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)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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Constitutional Forum constitutionnel
Vol. 28 No. 3 (2019)The Constitutional Forum constitutionnel is published by the Centre for Constitutional Studies and available exclusively online through the University of Alberta Open Journal System. The journal features short articles that provide an opportunity for interdisciplinary debate and dialogue on constitutional issues of Canadian and international importance.
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Patriation Papers: A View from Saskatchewan
Vol. 26 No. 2 (2017)The Centre for Constitutional Studies is pleased to publish this Special Issue of the Constitutional Forum written by former Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs for the Government of Saskatchewan and Professor Emeritus, University of Regina - Dr. Howard Leeson. The issue includes his documents and personal notes which have not previously been released and which provide new, behind-the-scenes information on meetings leading to patriation.