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Title:Alberta Supreme Court at 100 : History & Authority
Author:Jonathan Swainger (ed)
ISBN:0888644930 : 9780888644930
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:366
Weight: .738 Kg.
Published:University of Alberta Press - October 2007
List Price: 29.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Alberta: Local history: LAW: History of specific institutions


This volume marks the 2007 centenary of the Supreme Court of Alberta. These essays examine the extent to which the Court articulated an Albertan response to the varied legal questions of the past century. Canvassing the Court's jurisprudential history, the volume includes thematic essays examining First Nations' hunting rights, oil and gas law, water law, gender, the Hutterites and religious freedom, and family law. Additional essays detail the court's history through its early personnel, the World War I crisis over the court's independence, and the question of whether the court voiced an Albertan take on the constitution. What emerges is not the image of a maverick judiciary, but rather a court that pursued legal principles that would stand anywhere in the nation. Co-published with the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)