Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'UniversitÈ d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2024
- Category
- Disability, Gender & the Law, Discrimination, Indigenous Peoples
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776641898
- Publish Date
- May 2024
- List Price
- $41.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780776641904
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $71.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776641928
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $31.99
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Description
Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is the first 100% open-access collection of peer-reviewed essays devoted entirely to critical appraisals of public law topics in Canada. Set to be published by the University of Ottawa Press in 2023, Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law highlights the intersections of critical perspectives— including decolonial and Indigenous legal theory, critical race theory, feminisms, and critical disability theory—with doctrinal public law topics, broadly defined.
The goal of the Critical Conversations collection is to showcase interdisciplinary thinking on topical public law issues at the forefront of the evolving relationship between state and society. In Canada, this relationship is undergoing a period of significant reinvention, as evidenced, for example, by the movements for reconciliation, decolonization and Indigenization, the calls to recognize and remedy systemic racism in institutions including police forces, and the extension of human rights protections to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression. By centering critical perspectives on public law topics, Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law fills a gap in existing Canadian public law literature, which tends to prioritize traditional, largely liberal, public law scholarship. This collection bridges the divide between “public law,” as it is conventionally conceived, taught, and understood, and “critical theory”, by identifying critical theories as not only relevant, but imperative, to robust, fully contextualized understandings of public law topics. This approach marks an original and significant intervention into the field of public law in Canada.
The collection includes 17 chapters organized into five thematic sections. The diverse contributors to Critical Conversations include legal academics, former judges, and activists from across Canada, writing in both English and French. Additionally, the text opens with an Introduction authored collectively by the editorial team that investigates and interrogates the field of “critical public law” writ large, mapping the contours of the field and laying the foundation for future work in this area, and closes with a short conclusion that draws together key themes, ideas, questions and problems from the 17 chapters.
About the authors
Anne Lévesque's poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction have been published in Canadian and international journals and anthologies. Lucy cloud is her first novel. She lives with her husband near Inverness, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
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Gordon Christie is Professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.
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A daughter of a stateless immigrant to Canada, Jamie Chai Yun Liew is an immigration and refugee lawyer who has appeared at the Immigration and Refugee Board, Federal Court, Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. She is also an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, where she teaches, among other courses, Immigration and Refugee Law, Advanced Refugee Law, and Administrative Law. Professor Liew is the holder of degrees in political science and commerce from the University of Calgary, international affairs from Carleton University, and law from the University of Ottawa and Columbia University. She is a member of litigation committees for the Canadian Council for Refugees and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, and her research focuses on the performative and consequential aspects of how Canadian law is affecting refugees and immigrants. Having clerked with Justice Douglas Campbell at the Federal Court of Canada, Professor Liew was also a member of the Sesay defence team at the Special Court in Sierra Leone and the Commission counsel team at the Cornwall Public Inquiry.
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Ravi Malhotra is a professor in the faculty of law at the University of Ottawa.
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Kim Pate was appointed to the Senate of Canada on November 10, 2016. First and foremost, the mother of Michael and Madison, she is also a nationally renowned advocate who has spent the last 35 years working in and around the legal and penal systems of Canada, with and on behalf of some of the most marginalized, victimized, criminalized and institutionalized — particularly imprisoned youth, men and women.
Kim Pate is a member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, the Canadian Bar Associations’s Bertha Wilson Touchstone Award, and five honourary doctorates (Law Society of Upper Canada, University of Ottawa, Carleton University, St. Thomas University and Wilfred Laurier University) and numerous other awards. Her extensive list of publications, national and international speaking engagements and her strategic intervention and advocacy for substantive equality testify to her commitment to broader social, economic and cultural change. She continues to make significant contributions to public education around the issues of women’s inequality and discriminatory treatment within social, economic and criminal justice spheres.
Senator Pate lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Donna J. Young is at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and has written on issues of memory, trauma, and personhood.
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