Volume 2 Content Overview

Volume 2, No. 1 (1990)

Reconciling Powers and Duties: A Comment on Horseman, Sioui and Sparrow
by Catherine Bell (Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta)

The Post-Critical Future of Legal Theory
by Mark V. Tushnet (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington D.C.)

Rocket v. Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario: Professional Advertising and the Limits of Regulation
by June Ross (Assistant Professor of Law, University of Alberta)

Labour Strikes Out Again
by Timothy J. Christian (Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta)

The Prostitution Reference: Sexual Communication and the Streets
by David Schneiderman (Executive Director, Centre for Constitutional Studies)

Burying Rothman: The Supreme Court and the Right to Remain Silent
by Bruce P. Elman (Professor of Law, University of Alberta, and Chair, Centre for Constitutional Studies)

Volume 2, No. 2 (1992) Special Issue In the Aftermath of Meech Lake: Looking Ahead...

Meech Lake: The Debacle Revisited The Historical Context of Meech Lake
by Doug Owram (Department of History, University of Alberta) 

Meech Lake and Democratic Politics: Some Observations
by Allan Tupper (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta) 

Meech Lake and Economic Revival

The Meech Lake Accord and the Future of the Welfare State
by Linda Trimble (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta) 

The Aftermath of Meech Lake: Implications for the Western Canadian Economy
by Mike Percy (Department of Economics, University of Alberta) 

Constitutional Reform: Does Economic Efficiency Fit In?
by Roger S. Smith (Faculty of Business, University of Alberta)

Rights and Freedoms After Meech

Some Drawbacks of the Politics of Constitutional Rights
by T.C. Pocklington (Department of Political Science, University of Alberta) 

Women in the Aftermath of Meech Lake
by Susan Jackel (Department of Canadian Studies, University of Alberta) 

First Nations and Aboriginal Rights
by Andrew Bear Robe (Division Manager for Indian Government, Land Claims and Membership, Siksika Tribal Administration) 

The Constitutional Politics of Language
by A. Anne McLellan (Faculty of Law, University of Alberta) 

Will Canada Survive?

Roadblocks in the Way of Constitutional Change
by Alan C. Cairns (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia)  

Québec After Meech: On The Threshold
by Lisa Bissonnette (Publisher, Le Devoir) 

Canada and Québec Playing Constitutional Chicken: The View From an Australian Pedestrian
by Greg Craven (Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne) 

Canada After Meech
by Bruce P. Elman and A. Anne McLellan (Faculty of Law, University of Alberta)

Volume 2, No. 3 (1991)

Reforming the Amending Formula: The Case for a Constitutional Convention
by The Honourable Clyde K. Wells (Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. This is the text of a speech delivered to the Constitutional and International Law Section of the Northern Alberta Branch of the Canadian Bar Association and the Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta at the Law Centre on January 24, 1991)

Supreme Court Appointments
List of Decisions by New Appointees Justice Stevenson and Justice Iacobucci Compiled by Brett Nash of the Charter of Rights Data Base at the University of Alberta

Mandatory Retirement Cases

Applying the Charter: What is Government?
by Katherine Swinton (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto)

The Search for Reasonable Limits: Is Oakes Retired?
by William Black (Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, and Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa)

Expression, Racism and The Charter

Free Speech and Its Harms
by Frederick Schauer (Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The text is an edited transcript of a lecture delivered at the Law Centre, University of Alberta on April 4, 1990)

The Charter and Racism
by David Matas (lawyer in private practice in Winnipeg. He was chair of the Constitutional Law Section, Canadian Bar Association, 1975-1982)

A Review of the Keegstra Case: Supreme Court Upholds Hate Propaganda Law
by Bruce P. Elman (Faculty of Law, and Chair, Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta)

A Review of the Taylor Case: Using Human Rights Legislation to Curb Racist Speech
by David Schneiderman (Executive Director, Centre for Constitutional Studies)

Volume 2, No. 4 (1991)

The Amending Formula and the Agenda for Change
by J. Peter Meekison (Vice-President Academic, University of Alberta. This is the text of a presentation to the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the Constitutional Amending Process, the Beaudoin-Edwards Committee, dated February 21, 1991)

The European Social Charter: An End to Thatcherism?
by Keith Ewing (University of London, King's College, Professor of Public Law)

Committee for the Commonwealth of Canada v. Canada: Expression on Public Property
by June Ross (Faculty of Law, University of Alberta

Mental Health and the Charter

R. v. Chaulk and R. v. Swain: Insanity and the Constitution
by David B. Deutscher (Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba)

Indeterminate Custody After Swain
by Patricia L. James (Executive Director, Health Law Institute, University of Alberta)

Psychiatric Treatment and the Charter
by Gerald Robertson (Professor of Law, and Chair of the Health Law Institute, at the University of Alberta)