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Supreme Court Law Review, 3rd Series, Volume 12
In 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada marked its 150th anniversary. This special collection publishes 17 papers that were presented at a conference about the anniversary held at the University of Ottawa in June 2025.
Publication Language: English
Published: October 30, 2026
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
In 2025, the Supreme Court of Canada marked its 150th anniversary. Supreme Court Law Review, 3rd Series, Volume 11 edited by Noura Karazivan, Vanessa MacDonnell and Naiomi Walqwan Metallic is a special collection of 17 papers that were presented at a conference about the anniversary held at the University of Ottawa in June 2025.
The Court’s 150th anniversary is an opportunity to look back on its history, consider its emergence as an important national institution and reflect on what its future might hold. The contributors to this volume examine the Court and its public law jurisprudence from a range of perspectives, including critical ones.
Featuring authors writing from a diversity of perspectives, geographies and legal traditions, contributing in English and in French, this collection of papers pushes the conversation about the Court forward, identifying areas in which it has been rightly celebrated, but also instances in which its decisions may have fallen short.
Contributors
Max Adams
Lise Brun
Nathalie Chalifour
Professor Gordon Christie
Erin Crandall
Annamaria Enenajor
Kerri A. Froc
Meagan Gillis
Professor Kate Glover Berger
Dave Guénette
Brenda L. Gunn
Nader R. Hasan
Jeffery Hewitt
Dr. Andrea Lawlor
Preston Jordan Lim
Félix Mathieu
Jordan Mayer
Patrick Taillon
David Taylor
Wade Wright
Benjamin Zolf
The Supreme Court at 150: The Past, Present and Future — Vanessa MacDonnell, Noura Karazivan and Naiomi Metallic
PART I: THE PAST
Les réformes informelles du processus de désignation des juges au Canada à l’épreuve des standards internationaux — Jordan Mayer et Patrick Taillon
Public Attitudes Toward the Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of Canada: Do Descriptive Representation and Bilingualism Matter? — Andrea Lawlor and Erin Crandall
Performing Country: Architecture, Law, and Authority at the Supreme Court of Canada — Jeffery Hewitt
Le Renvoi relatif à la sécession du Québec : à l’avant-garde pour penser le Canada multinational ? — Félix Mathieu et Dave Guénette
Critical-Realist Analysis of Indigenous Authority over Traditional Territories and Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada — Professor (Emeritus) Gordon Christie
PART II: THE PRESENT
Excluding Unconstitutionally Obtained Evidence: The Convergence of the Canadian Grant Test and the American Exclusionary Rule? — Benjamin Zolf and Nader R. Hasan
Women as Subjects of the Rights of Man, or Subjected to the Rights of Man? The Supreme Court of Canada’s Interpretation of Fundamental Justice and Equal Rights — Kerri A. Froc
The Supreme Court and Constitutional Agonism — Kate Glover Berger
Breathing Life into Section 35(1): Reconsidering Van der Peet in Light of the UNDRIP — Brenda L. Gunn and Meagan Gillis
The Supreme Court of Canada and the Climate Emergency: Federalism at a Crossroads — Nathalie J. Chalifour
Influence and Uncertainty: The Reception of Social Facts Presented by Interveners in Charter Litigation Before the Court — Annamaria Enenajor
Québec (Procureure générale) c. 9147-0732 Québec inc. et les règles d’interprétation constitutionnelle relatives aux sources non nationales, une ébauche sujette à corrections ? — Lise Brun
Nevsun and Quebec (AG): Duelling Visions of Canadian Courts’ Role in the World — Preston Jordan Lim
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Use of Unwritten Constitutional Principles to Interpret the Text of the Constitution — Wade Wright and Max Adams
PART III: THE FUTURE
The Supreme Court of Canada and the Indigenous Right to Self-Government: Past, Present and Future — Naiomi Walqwan Metallic
Section 33 and the Override Power: From a Culture of Justification to a Culture of Authority. . . And Back? — Noura Karazivan
Policing the Event Horizon: Parliamentary Privilege, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Culture of Justification — David P. Taylor
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