DCC 2118
General Public Law
Fall 2026
Topics
- Canadian constitutional foundations and history
- Rule of law and judicial oversight
- Parliamentary supremacy and constitutional limits
- Interpretation of legislation
- Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Government administration and public-law disputes
- Aboriginal and treaty rights under section 35
Readings
- Constitutional Law: Fundamental Principles Notes and Cases
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2026
- Nawwar Wannous. Topics p.1; course materials p.2. Book title reproduced as cited in the syllabus. A compilation of laws and further materials are supplied on Brightspace without public individual citations. Federalism is explicitly excluded from the constitutional-law overview.