POLS 3135 Study Guide - Eugene Forsey, Potato Council, Statutory Interpretation

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3135
• Professor: Tamara Kelly

Document Summary

As/pols 3135 3. 0 (f) section a (crosslisted to: ak/pols 3135 3. 00, ak/soci 3135 3. 00, This course will examine the role of the courts in the governmental process in canada, and particularly in relation to leading supreme court of canada decisions regarding the division of. Powers between the federal government and the provinces. Attention will be paid to formal constitutional interpretation, the politics of the judicial process, and the relation between law, public policy and administration in canada. Relation between pols 3135 and pols 3136: most students who take public law i (3135) also take public law ii (3136) (though there is no requirement to do so). Public law ii is taught during the winter term in the same time period and focuses on supreme court of canada decisions relating to the charter of rights and freedoms. This course outline and links to some of the readings are posted on moodle.