Beverley McLachlin was sworn in as the seventeenth Chief Justice of Canada on 7 January 2000. This book focuses on con­stitutional and administrative law decisions rendered in the first decade of the McLachlin Court. It includes contributions in both English and French from leading scholars who examine the Court’s legacy in areas such as federalism, Aboriginal rights, Charter rights such as equality and freedom of association, criminal law, and public international law. The book provides authoritative insight into the many important judgments that helped to define or redefine the Canadian legal landscape in the first decade of the 21^st century as well as glimpse into what Canadians might expect from our highest Court in the years ahead.

David A. Wright is Associate Chair, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. He completed his L.L.B. and B.C.L. at McGill University and  his L.L.M. at New York University. He articled as law clerk to Madame Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dubé of the Supreme Court of Canada..

Mr. Wright practiced labour, administrative, human rights law, and civil litigation at a Toronto law firm and appeared as counsel before various administrative tribunals and all levels of courts. He taught administrative law at Osgoode Hall Law School as an adjunct professor and is the author of several law journal articles on administrative, labour, and constitutional law. He is the past chair of the Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights section of the Ontario Bar Association and a frequent speaker on human rights, administrative law, and labour law.

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Adam M. Dodek is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) where he teaches public law, legal ethics, and a seminar on the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Dodek is a member of the Chief Justice of Ontario’s Advisory Committee on Professionalism, and of the Academic Advisory Board of the University of Toronto’s Centre for the Legal Profession. At the University of Ottawa, he heads up the Professionalism Initiative and coordinates a Professionalism Speaker series. He writes about issues of legal ethics, the regulation of the legal profession, the judiciary, and public law. Recent books include Judicial Independence in Context, co-edited with Lorne Sossin (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010) and Public Law at the McLachlin Court, co-edited with David A. Wright (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011).

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