Advanced Public Law

3 cr · Undergraduate

This course provides students with a fuller appreciation and knowledge of several topics of interest and importance for Canadian public law, including the changing boundaries of public law in our "shrinking" state, the scope and meaning of judicial, administrative and bureaucratic independence, the implementation of the duty to consult and accommodate Indigenous peoples, the role of international human rights norms in Canadian constitutional and administrative law, the intersection between the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and administrative law and the role of guidelines, policies and other "soft law" in public administration. Although focused on Canadian public law, the course may include a comparative component and draw from the public law experience of other jurisdictions. May not be held with LAW 3980 when titled “Advanced Public Law.”