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  • The Canadian Constitution in Transition

    by Vanessa MacDonnell, Richard Albert, Paul Daly ...
    The year 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 1867 Constitution Act. Anniversaries like these are often seized upon as opportunities for retrospection. This volume, by contrast, takes a distinctively forward-looking approach. Featuring essays from both emerging and established scholars, The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the ideas that will shape the ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Constitutional Amendments

    Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions

    by Richard Albert ...
    Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change. Drawing from dozens of constitutions in every region of the world, this book blends theory with practice to answer two all-important questions: what is an ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Cities and the Constitution

    Giving Local Governments in Canada the Power They Need

    Edited by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert, Nathalie Des Rosiers ...
    Series Book 18 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    Canada’s largest cities have faced exponential growth, with the trajectory rising further still. Due to their high density, cities are the primary sites for opportunities in economic prosperity, green innovation, and cultural activity, and also for critical challenges in homelessness and extreme poverty, air pollution, Indigenous-municipal relationship-building, racial injustice, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

    Volume 16

    by Alastair Gunn, Albert Richard Smith, Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton, Emma Watts Phillips, Ada Buisson, William Kingston Sawyer, Edward Eggleston, Charles Maurice Davies, Elizabeth Owens Blackburne Casey, Elizabeth Anna Hart, Margaret Oliphant, Henry Frith, Annie Trumbull Slosson, John Ferguson Nisbet, Frank Fullerton Brumback, Hume Nisbet, Mabel Collins, M. E. Greene ...
    Series Book 16 - The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
    Wimbourne Books presents the sixteenth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 16 contains stories published between 1846 and 1901, all set at or around the Christmas period. Readers new to this genre will discover its pleasures; the Victorian quaintness, the sometimes shocking difference in social norms, the ... Read more

    $2.72 USD

  • The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities

    Where the Law Went Wrong and How We Can Fix It

    Edited by Alexandra Flynn, Richard Albert, Nathalie Des Rosiers ...
    Series Book 19 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    In 1861, just a few years before Confederation, 84 per cent of Canadians lived in rural areas; today, it’s less than 20 per cent. Our municipal governments are asked to do more for their citizens than ever before, yet they must confront myriad challenges – from the public health pandemic to the housing crisis – without the tools they need. They have no constitutional protection from jurisdictional ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions

    Edited by Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Change
    Constitutions are often seen as the product of the free will of a people exercising their constituent power. This, however, is not always the case, particularly when it comes to ‘imposed constitutions’. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the idea of imposition in constitutional design, but the literature does not yet provide a comprehensive resource to understand the meanings, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Architecture of Constitutional Amendments

    History, Law, Politics

    Edited by Professor Richard Albert ...
    This innovative book blends constitutional theory with real-life political practice to explore the impact of codifying constitutional amendments on the operation of the constitution in relation to democracy, the rule of law, and the separation of powers.It draws from comparative, historical, political and theoretical perspectives to answer questions all constitutional designers should ask ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Amending America's Unwritten Constitution

    Edited by Richard Albert, Ryan C. Williams, Yaniv Roznai ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    It is well known that the US Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times since its creation in 1787, but that number does not reflect the true extent of constitutional change in America. Although the Constitution is globally recognized as a written text, it consists also of unwritten rules and principles that are just as important, such as precedents, customs, traditions, norms, ... Read more

    $100.89 USD

  • The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums

    Edited by Richard Albert, Richard Stacey ...
    The possibility of democracy-enhancing uses and anti-democratic abuses of referendums reveals a paradox: mechanisms of democracy can be exploited to do violence to the basic principles of democracy. The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums seeks to identify standards we might use to assess the democratic legitimacy of a referendum when we cannot rely on the norms of traditional liberal democracy. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America

    Edited by Professor Richard Albert, Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Professor Carlos Bernal ...
    Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Founding Moments in Constitutionalism

    Edited by Professor Richard Albert, Menaka Guruswamy, Nishchal Basnyat ...
    Founding moments are landmark events that break ties with the ancien régime and lay the foundation for the establishment of a new constitutional order. They are often radically disruptive episodes in the life of a state. They reshape national law, reset political relationships, establish future power structures, and influence happenings in neighbouring countries.This edited collection brings ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Constitutionalism

    Law, Legitimacy, Power

    Edited by Professor Richard Albert ...
    This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman's path-breaking book, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law. The book also features a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to the contributors' essays.Some ... Read more

    $34.79 USD