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"In Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights, Javier García Oliva and Helen Hall coin the term "constitutional culture" to encapsulate the collective rules and expectations which govern the collective life within a jurisdiction. Significantly, these shared norms have both legal and social elements, including matters as diverse as standards of parenting, the modus operandi of police officers, and taboos around sexuality. Using Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia as case studies, the book delves into what these constitutional battles mean for the rights, identity, and needs of everyday people, and powerfully demonstrates why the hypothetical future independence of these regions would have far reaching practical consequences, beyond the realm of political structures and academic theory. The book does not present a magic bullet to resolve debates around independence, this is not its purpose, and the text in fact demonstrates why there is objectively optimal approach to any or all contexts. Instead, it seeks to shed light on aspects of these situations often overlooked in discussions around the fate of nations, and addresses what the consequences of constitutional paradigm shifts might be for individuals. Constitutional Culture is a complex web of interconnected understandings and behaviours, the vibrations from shaking or cutting a fundamental strand will be felt throughout the structure."-- Provided by publisher.

"No province in Canada has codified a written constitution, and whether Quebec should be the first remains a controversial question. A Written Constitution for Quebec? enters into the debate, drawing a roadmap through the legal, political, and constitutional terrain of the issue. Leading scholars each take their own position in the debate, examining the issue from various sides and exploring the forms and limits of a codified Quebec constitution by asking whether Quebec should adopt a written constitution, how the province might go about adopting it, and what such a document might achieve. Along with a comprehensive introduction to constitutional codification and how it relates to Quebec, the book opens with a proposal for a written constitution, with the following analyses expressing a diversity of views on the feasibility and desirability of a written constitution for the province. An array of perspectives--from Indigenous inclusion and reconciliation, interculturalism and democratic constitutionalism, and insights from other federal and plurinational states--are included in this wide-ranging volume. Taking a doctrinal, historical, theoretical, and comparative approach, A Written Constitution for Quebec? extensively addresses Quebec's constitutional future in Canada."-- Provided by publisher

• Legal history
• Sources of law
• The constitutional framework
• Legal actors
• Criminal law
• Persons
• The family
• Property
• Contract
• Liability
• Quasi-contracts
• Enterprises : business entities
• Labour and employment law

"For over eighty years, the Association Henri Capitant has endeavored to spread, update, and promote "continental law," or the law of the European continent. In pursuance of these objectives, the Association has decided to create the "Library of the Association Henri Capitant." The many different groups of the Association have been asked to outline and explain the most salient features of their legal system in a series of books, written in French, structured around a uniform table of contents and within a set limit of pages. Thereby, a reader will be able to know and compare the foundations and fundamental features of each one of these legal systems. With this purpose in mind, The Legal System of Québec, like the other books in this collection, presents to the reader the main features of the history of its legal system, its sources of law, its constitutional framework, its legal actors, its criminal law, its law of persons, family law, property law, law of contract, law on delictual liability, quasi-contracts, business entities, and labor-employment law"-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword
• The Québec class action at a glance
• Québec's class action market : who is getting sued?
• Certification by another name : understanding the criteria for "authorization"
• Applications to dismiss or suspend
• Preliminary applications
• The authorization hearing
• Pre-trial applications
• Enter the gladiators : the common issues trial
• Appeals
• How to pay class members
• When and how to settle
• Procedural roadmap : from claim to final judgment
• General principles about Québec's substantive law
• So, what's the takeaway?

"Qǔbec was the first Canadian province to adopt class actions as a legal procedure, and while the other provinces have followed Qǔbec's lead, class actions in that jurisdiction remain unique as they are governed by the tenets of civil law, not common law. This new publication, The Qǔbec Class Action: A Roadmap, is a useful primer that will enable in-house counsel and practitioners both inside and outside of Canada to navigate Qǔbec's complex class action system with greater confidence and ease."-- Provided by publisher

• L'adoption intrafamiliale : une institution en marge du systeme general d'adoption.
• L'adoption legale comme revelateur de l'evolution de la famille au Quebec.
• L'adoption quebecoise : une oscillation perpetuelle entre la continuite et la rupture.
• La reforme proposee du regime quebecois de l'adoption et le rejet des parentes plurielles.

Cet ouvrage traite de l'histoire legislative et sociale de l'adoption quebecoise, en s'interessant plus particulierement aux adoptions intrafamiliales et à la maniere dont l'adoption legale redefinit juridiquement les liens familiaux de l'enfant adopte. Plus precisement, il aborde la question des places respectives de la famille d'origine et de la famille adoptive de l'enfant adopte au regard des droits qui s'y rattachent. La premiere partie retrace les changements successifs de la Loi sur l'adoption au Quebec de 1924 jusqu'à la derniere reforme de 2018. Elle rend compte de l'evolution des pratiques d'adoption intrafamiliale sur la base d'une analyse de dossiers judiciaires et en regard du contexte plus large des transformations de la famille et du droit familial. La deuxieme partie discute plus precisement de la question tres actuelle de la pluriparente, en examinant les hesitations du legislateur quebecois quant à la reconnaissance legale de la filiation d'origine de la personne adoptee.

• La question nationale et de la laïcite au Quebec psychopolitique d'une intrication / Dalie Giroux
• Petite histoire du nationalisme quebecois et de ses racines orientalistes / Catherine Larochelle
• La loi 21 quebecoise et l'indicible mot en R : refuter le racisme pour mieux dominer / Vincent Romani
• Une laïcite christiano-centrique qui exclut au nom d'un principe de neutralite / Michael Nafi
• Une laïcite moindre / David Koussens
• De la loi 21 à une charte de la laïcite / Michel Seymour
• Colonialite du pouvoir au temps de la loi 21 : pistes de reflexion / Leila Benhadjoudja, Leila Celis
• La loi 21 vue à travers le prisme "des segregations respectables" / Sonia Ben Soltane
• La loi 21 et l'ethnicisation genree des inegalites sociales / Marie-Soleil Martineau
• La loi 21, les droits fondamentaux et la democratie parlementaire / Dominique Leydet
• La laïcite entre Montreal et le reste du Quebec / Benoît Morissette
• Qui peut temoigner? Presences indesirables et paroles sous surveillance / Khaoula Zoghlami
• Les risques de la Loi sur la laïcite : bien au-delà de l'interdiction du port de signes religieux / Louis-Philippe Lampron
• La passion des derogations : exit l'État constitutionnel de droit? / Michel Coutu
• Le western de la laïcite. Regards juridiques sur la Loi sur la laïcite de l'État / Dia Dabby.

La place qu'occupe la religion dans l'espace public suscite depuis plusieurs annees des debats difficiles dans la societe quebecoise. La Loi sur la laïcite de l'État, adoptee hâtivement par le gouvernement de la CAQ en 2019, en est la plus recente illustration. Tant par son contenu que par le processus de son adoption, la Loi 21 a provoque des reactions passionnees. Mais que veut dire vivre et reguler la religion au quotidien au Quebec à l'aune de la Loi sur la laïcite de l'État? C'est là la question à laquelle les 15 essais reunis ici tentent de repondre en examinant de façon critique les choix politiques faits par le gouvernement Legault et leurs consequences immediates et possibles. À partir de disciplines et de perspectives theoriques differentes, les auteurs et autrices proposent un arsenal argumentatif dont l'objectif premier est de deconstruire les raisons invoquees par le gouvernement Legault en faveur de la Loi sur la laïcite de l'État . Il apporte ainsi une contribution essentielle à un debat qui est loin d'être clos.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Constituting Law, Constituting Justice in the Jewish School Question
• Chapter 2: Invoking Equality, Invoking Legality: Jews Constituting Their Canadian Identity
• Chapter 3: Schools, Taxes, Jews, Catholics (and Protestants): The Origins of the Jewish School Question
• Chapter 4: Jews and Roman Catholics, School Taxes and Protestants: The First Jewish School Question
• Chapter 5: Taxes, the Rabbi and the Schoolboy: S 93 and the Pinsler Case
• Chapter 6: Promises, Promises: "Honorary Protestants" in Protestant Schools
• Chapter 7: Jews, Protestants, and Taxes (Again): The Jewish School Question in the 1920s
• Chapter 8: Jews, Protestants, Roman Catholics, and the Law: The Jewish School Question Goes to Court
• Chapter 9: Jews, Protestants, and Roman Catholics: Two Crises, and the Jewish School Question, 1928-31
• Chapter 10: The Protestant Jews of Ste. Sophie and La Macaza: Constituting School and Community in Rural Quebec
• Chapter 11: Outremont and Beyond: The Jewish School Question Moves West
• Chapter 12: Hampstead and Beyond: From the Ghetto to Citizenship and Equality under Law's Shadow
• Chapter 13: TMR, St. Laurent, Cote Saint-Luc: Democracy, Law, and the End of the Jewish School Question
• Chapter 14: Constituting Canada and the Jewish School Question in Montreal.
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When the Constitution Act of 1867 was enacted, section 93 guaranteed certain educational rights to Catholics and Protestants in Quebec, but not to any others. Over the course of the next century, the Jewish community in Montreal carved out an often tenuous arrangement for public schooling as "honorary Protestants, " based on complex negotiations with the Protestant and Catholic school boards, the provincial government, and individual municipalities. In the face of the constitution's exclusionary language, all parties gave their compromise a legal form which was frankly unconstitutional, but unavoidable if Jewish children were to have access to public schools. Bargaining in the shadow of the law, they made their own constitution long before the formal constitutional amendment of 1997 finally put an end to the issue. In Honorary Protestants, David Fraser presents the first legal history of the Jewish school question in Montreal. Based on extensive archival research, it highlights the complex evolution of concepts of rights, citizenship, and identity, negotiated outside the strict legal boundaries of the constitution.
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• List of Tables and Figures Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction * English Justice in a Foreign Land * Making Justices * The Character of the Magistracy * The Police before the Police * The Relevance of Criminal Justice * Experiencing the Everyday Course of Criminal Justice * Criminal Justice and Social Power * Criminal Justice and State Power Conclusion Notes Bibliography Illustration Credits Index.
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The role and function of criminal justice in a conquered colony is always problematic, and the case of Quebec is no exception. Many historians have suggested that, between the Conquest and the Rebellions (1760s-1830s), Quebec's 'Canadien' inhabitants both boycotted and were excluded from the British criminal justice system. Magistrates, Police, and People challenges this simplistic view of the relationship between criminal law and Quebec society, offering instead a fresh view of a complex accord. Based on extensive research in judicial and official sources, Donald Fyson offers the first comprehensive study of the everyday workings of criminal justice in Quebec and Lower Canada. Focussing on the justices of the peace and their police, Fyson examines both the criminal justice system itself, and the system in operation as experienced by those who participated in it. Fyson contends that, although the system was fundamentally biased, its flexibility provided a source of power for ordinary citizens. At the same time, everyday criminal justice offered the colonial state and colonial elites a powerful, though often faulty, means of imposing their will on Quebec society. This fascinating and controversial study will challenge many received historical interpretations, providing new insight into the criminal justice system of early Quebec.
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