Power Without Law : The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism [1 ed.] 9780773576674, 9780773536104

The Supreme Court of Canada decision in the Marshall case asserted sweeping Native treaty rights and generated intense c

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Power Without Law : The Supreme Court of Canada, the Marshall Decisions and the Failure of Judicial Activism [1 ed.]
9780773576674, 9780773536104

A close look at the momentous Marshall decision and how the Supreme Court got it wrong.

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Despite the United States' ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nin

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In a ground-breaking study on the nature of judicial behaviour in the Supreme Court of Canada, Donald Songer, Susan John

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In The Judicial Role in a Diverse Federation, Robert Schertzer uses the example of the Supreme Court of Canada to examin

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This history traces the development of the Supreme Court of Canada from its establishment in the earliest days following

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We often hear—with particular frequency during recent Supreme Court nomination hearings—that justices should not create

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The authors use confidential interviews with Supreme Court justices, analysis of their rulings from 1970 to 2005, and me

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This book explores the recent development of the Supreme People’s Court of China, the world’s largest highest court. Rec

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Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada is a groundbreaking analysis of the degree to which Supreme Court decisions

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Seldom has American law seen a more towering figure than Chief Justice John Marshall. Indeed, Marshall is almost univers

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