Bøger af Christopher P. Manfredi

Examines the problematical relationship between judicial power and its use to review and nullify or modify policies enacted by democratically accountable decision makers. The title uses Canada's "Charter of Freedoms and Rights" as an example.

An engaging study of the clash between two iconic Canadian policy instruments - universal, single-payer health care and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - and the effects on politics and policy.

Taking in a century of change, this work focuses on how the Supreme Court brought the juvenile court system under constitutional control. It describes the case of Gerald Gault, an Arizona teenager who was sent to reform school for making an obscene phone call.

A cogent analysis of legal mobilization as a strategy for social and activist movements.