Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution

Emmett Macfarlane

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University of Toronto Press
29 October 2018

Law & society; Law as it applies to other professions; Laws of Specific jurisdictions; Legal system: general; Legal system: costs & funding

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 political scientists and legal scholars, this volume delves into a diverse set of policy areas, including health care issues, the regulation of elections, criminal justice policy, minority language education, citizenship, refugee policy, human rights legislation, and Indigenous policy.

While much of the public law and judicial politics literatures focus on the impact of the constitution and the judicial role, scholarship on courts that makes policy change its central lens of analysis is surprisingly rare. Multidisciplinary in its approach to examining policy issues, this book focuses on specific cases or policy issues through a wide-ranging set of approaches, including the use of interview data, policy analysis, historical and interpretive analysis, and jurisprudential analysis.

Edited by: Emmett Macfarlane
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 620g
ISBN: 9781487523152
ISBN 10: 1487523157
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 29 October 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emmett Macfarlane is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo.

Reviews for Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution

""Why, when, and how courts make policy is not only grist for law faculties and practitioners. Public policy effects change in Canada – and occasionally that change is truly uncharted…The questions posed in this book are fundamental."" -- Michael Bryant * Literary Review of Canada, Vol 27, no. 2 * ""The case studies in this text are fascinating and provide insight into how changes in public policy have (or have not) come into effect."" -- Julie Hetherington-Field, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada * <em>Canadian Law Library Review</em> *