Author: Michael Murphy

16 Jan Re-Configuring Aboriginal-State Relations. Canada: The State of the Federation 2003

Posted at 09:33h in Edited Books, Posts, Publications

This year’s Canada: The State of the Federation is focused on the reconfiguration of Aboriginal-state relations in the federation. The organizing assumption of the volume is that much of the recent intellectual and policy work in this area has not kept pace with an Aboriginal...

12 Jan In Defense of Multinational Citizenship

Posted at 09:32h in Authored Books, Posts, Publications

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the need to develop new forms of citizenship to meet demands for self-determination advanced by substate nations and indigenous peoples is increasingly pressing. In responding to this challenge, this book defends a form of multinational citizenzhip that provides...

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...