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Religion, Public Law, And The Refuge Of Formalism, Howard Kislowicz, Benjamin Berger
Religion, Public Law, And The Refuge Of Formalism, Howard Kislowicz, Benjamin Berger
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In this article we suggest that the encounter with religious legal traditions has surfaced a distinct vein of formalism in Canadian public law, discernable across the Court’s law and religion jurisprudence. This is so despite the centrality of substantive analysis in the account Canadian public law gives of itself. But there are distinct challenges and a particular anxiety that surrounds the law-religion encounter; we argue that the fraught sovereignty and pluralism problems that this encounter presents has led Canadian public law to rediscover its formalist habits and the comfort that they bring.
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decisions in Wall …
The Construction Of Minorities: Self-Determination And The Legal Politics Of Religious Difference In Late Northern Nigeria, Circa 1949-1960, Rabiat Akande
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