Transsystemic Constitutional Law

3.5-4 credits · Undergraduate

Introduces constitutional relations in the Canadian legal system. Examines contemporary and historic political and legal relations between Indigenous societies, and between Indigenous, federal and provincial levels of government, and federalism. Considers the historical development of the political and judicial regulation of these relationships, and political reformulation of constitutional structures. Examines the role of Aboriginal rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the constitutional order.