January 2009

11 Jan Shaping the Constitutional Dialogue on Federalism: The Canadian Supreme Court as Meta-Political Actor

Posted at 09:29h in Articles, Posts, Publications

This article challenges the view that the Supreme Court has become the predominant authority on the constitutional distribution of rights and entitlements among governments in the Canadian federation. By assuming this position of constitutional supremacy, critics continue, the Court has usurped key policy functions that...

10 Jan Looking Forward Without Looking Back: Jean Chrétien’s Legacy for Aboriginal-State Relations

Posted at 09:26h in Articles, Posts, Publications

(2004). “Looking Forward Without Looking Back: Jean Chrétien’s Legacy for Aboriginal-State Relations,” Review of Constitutional Studies 9, Special Issue: The Chrétien Legacy, 151–69. download PDF | go to publisher...

09 Jan Understanding Indigenous Nationalism

Posted at 17:57h in Book Chapters, Posts, Publications

Indigenous peoples around the world are increasingly adopting the language of nationalism to describe their claims to self-determination. While this nationalist discourse has attracted attention from theorists of multicultural or multinational diversity, relatively few works focus intensively on the question of indigenous nationalism, and fewer...