Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law (Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa Press) is co-edited by the Common Law Section’s Professors Jena McGill, Kyle Kirkup, and Anne Levesque, alongside Professors Karen Drake (Osgoode Hall Law School) and Joshua Sealy-Harrington (University of Windsor).
Through a series of interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed essays, Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law examines how public law is being reimagined in the face of movements for reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism, gender equality, and disability justice. The collection challenges traditional frameworks and foregrounds critical perspectives – including intersectional feminist, Indigenous, queer, critical race, and disability approaches – as essential to understanding the public law issues that shape people’s lives.
The volume also features contributions from several Faculty of Law professors whose chapters bring new insights into pressing legal and social questions:
- Professor João Velloso (with Véronique Fortin), “Être puni-e sans nécessairement être condamné-e : la punitivité avant procès et au-delà de la matière criminelle en droit canadien”
- Professor Y.Y. Brandon Chen, “The Xenophobic Gap in the Canadian Charter’s Equality Guarantee”
- Professor Mona Paré, “Pour une application de la Charte fondée sur les droits de l’enfant”
- Professor Ravi Malhotra, “Critical Disability Theory and Public Law in Canada: The Case of Longueépée v University of Waterloo”
- Professor Samuel Singer (with Allison Christians), “Critical Perspectives in Canadian Tax Law”
Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is available now as an open-access publication through Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa Press, ensuring that its insights are freely accessible to readers, researchers, and practitioners across Canada and beyond.
Learn more or download the book on the University of Ottawa Press website.