Yesterday we released updated notes for the November 2020 Foundations syllabus. You can purchase the PDF Instant digital download here and the MS Word editable version here. Highlights of the Updated Syllabus Include:

6 New Cases:

1) The Queen v Richard Lee Desautel, 2019 BCCA 151

2) Newfoundland and Labrador (Attorney General) v. Uashaunnuat (Innu of Uashat and of Mani Utenam), 2020 SCC 4

3) Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, [1995] 2 SCR 1130

4) Smith v. Canada (Attorney General), 2020 FC 629

5) Shuttleworth v. Ontario (Safety, Licensing Appeals and Standards Tribunals), 2019 ONCA 518

6) Highwood Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses (Judicial Committee) v. Wall, 2018 SCC 26

14 New Articles, Including:

1) Robin Maynard, “Arrested (In)justice: From the streets to the prison” in Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present (Fernwood Publishing, 2017)

2) Naiomi Walqwan Metallic, “A Human Right to Self-Government over First Nations Child and Family Services and Beyond: Implications of the Caring Society Case.” (2018) 28 Journal of Law and Social Policy 41

3) Brenda L. Gunn, “Implementing the UN Declaration through Domestic Legislation: A Canadian Example” in UNDRIP Implementation, Comparative Approaches, Indigenous Voices from CANZUS (2020) at p.67

4) Scott Carrière, “Whose Sovereignty is it Anyway? The Borders of Aboriginal Rights along the Sovereign Borders of Canada” (January 20, 2020)

5) Catherine Valcke, “Quebec Civil Law and Canadian Federalism” (1996) 21 Yale J. of International Law, 67-121

6) Claire L'Heureux-Dube,“The Dissenting Opinion: Voice of the Future?” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 38.3 (2000): 495-517

7) Alyn James Johnson, “The Judges Reference and the Secession Reference at Twenty: Reassessing the Supreme Court of Canada's Unfinished Unwritten Constitutional Principles Project”, 2019 56-4 Alberta Law Review 1077

8) Lorne Sossin, “The Puzzle of Independence and Parliamentary Democracy in the Common Law World” in Susan Rose-Ackerman et al, Comparative Administrative Law, 2nd ed., (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017)

9) Sonia Lawrence, “Reflections: On Judicial Diversity and Judicial Independence” in Dodek, Adam M. and Sossin, Lorne, (eds.), Judicial Independence in Context (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010),193:

10) Eszter Bodnár, “What Can the World Learn from Canada, What Can Canada Learn from the World?” (2017) Elte Law Journal

11) Mary Liston, “Transubstantiation in Canadian Public Law: Processing Substance and Instantiating Process” in John Bell et al, eds, Public Law Adjudication in Common Law Systems: Process and Substance (Oxford: Hart, 2016) 213

12) Paul Daly, “Vavilov Hits the Road”

13) Paul Daly, “Vavilov and the Culture of Justification in Contemporary Administrative Law” (June 3, 2020)

14) Cristie Ford, “Vavilov, Rule of Law Pluralism, and What Really Matters” (Apr. 27, 2020)