Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution aims to further our understanding of judicial policy impact and the role of the courts in shaping policy change. Bringing together a group of polit
As Canada's final court of appeal, the Supreme Court is acrucial component of the country's legal system. Yet, for much ofits almost 140-year history, the highest court in the land dwelled inrelative
Drawing from not-for-attribution interviews with current and former justices, former law clerks, and other staff members at the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as from other sources, Macfarlane (poli
In Canada, the 1982 Constitution Act contains the amending formula, which outlines a set of procedures required to make changes to the constitution. Recent debates over Senate reform, the status of th
