Publications
Toronto v Ontario: Implications for Canadian Local Democracy
This special volume of the Journal of Law and Social Policy examines and contextualizes the acts of interference of courts that have been asked to engage with the expanded and extraordinary use of executive and parliamentary powers everywhere—most recently in the United Kingdom (on the use of the executive’s prerogative powers to call elections against the will of Parliament) and the United States (on the legality of executive orders by the President). Locally it has taken the form of interference by the provincial government of Ontario in municipal elections, including the threat of invoking the “notwithstanding clause” in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to shield such interference from effective constitutional oversight. READ MORE
Submitted Papers
Cities and Constitutional Change
Emmett Macfarlane
Associate Professor of political science at the University of Waterloo
Cities and Constitutional Change
Erin Crandall
Associate Professor at Acadia University
Cities and Innovation
Erika Arban
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law
From city autonomy to the metagovernance of place
Zack Taylor
Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science, Western University
Cities and Change
Benoît Frate
Professor of Department of Urban and Tourism Studies
Université du Québec à Montréal
David Robitaille
Professor of Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Freedoms, and Local Government Law, University of Ottawa
Cities and Constitutional Change
Emmanuelle Richez
Associate Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Windsor
Cities and Federalism
Konrad Lachmayer
Vice Dean and Professor for public law, European law and foundations of law at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna.
Conference Blog Posts
Recommended Reading
Recommended reading
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change. MORE
Rethinking municipal power in the time of COVID-19
COVID-19 has exposed why local power matters. Municipalities know what their communities need and step in to take action. This is not just in big cities, but in smaller communities, too. READ MORE
A new Constitution for Ontario
Like all other provinces and territories, Ontario has a constitution but it is not written down into a single document. Our constitution is instead an uncodified body of federal and provincial rules, political practices, unwritten norms, and judicial rulings. READ MORE
