Foreword
The Honourable Justice Malcolm Rowe
Introduction: Political Science and Law: Shared Foundations and Disciplinary Divides
Kate Puddister and Emmett Macfarlane
Part I: Examining the Divides
Chapter 1: Legal Blindspots in Canadian Political Science
Dennis Baker and Byron Sheldrick
Chapter 2: Who Cites Who? An Empirical Study of the Research Foundations of the Canadian Law and Politics Subfield
Andrew McDougall and Charles Buck
Chapter 3: Taking Power Seriously: Studying Aboriginal Rights in Formal and Informal Loci of Power
Minh Do
Chapter 4: Portrait of the Political Scientist as an Expert Witness
Christopher Manfredi
Chapter 5: The Role of Government Lawyers
Matthew Hennigar
Chapter 6: Dialogue Theory and Legislative Responses: What the Metaphor Missed (or Perhaps Misunderstood about Courts and Legislatures)
James B. Kelly
Part II: Dialogues across the Disciplinary Divide
Chapter 7: Partisan Divides and Disciplinary Divides? Political Scientists, Legal Scholars, and the Politics of Judicial Selection
Mark Harding
Chapter 8: Response: Canada’s Indispensable Legal and Political Constitutionalism: Some Observations on Constitutionalism from a (Primarily) Legal Perspective
Warren Newman
Chapter 9: Canadian Political Science’s Unfortunate Neglect of Administrative Law
David Said and Dennis Baker
Chapter 10: Response: Collaboration at the Intersection of Administrative Law and Political Science
Paul Daly
Chapter 11: Law and Social Science: A Sustainable Jurisprudence of Canadian Federalism
Peter C. Oliver
Chapter 12: Response: On Being Judgmatical: Judicial Choices and How to Think about Hard versus Easy Cases
Christa Scholtz
Chapter 13: Political Revival, Scholarly Renaissance: Academic Writing on the Notwithstanding Clause, 1982–2023
Dave Snow
Chapter 14: Response: Notwithstanding Constitutional Law, Politics, and Scholarship
Eric M. Adams and Catherine Ford
Chapter 15: Why Law Was Late to Comparative Constitutional Amendment
Richard Albert
Chapter 16: Response: Political Science and the Study of Constitutional Amendment
Emmett Macfarlane
Part III: Disciplinary Dexterity and Scholarly Collaborations
Chapter 17: Parallel Narratives, Divergent Disciplines: Examining Advisory Opinions
Carissima Mathen and Kate Puddister
Chapter 18: Finding Common Ground? Campaign Finance Law
Erin Crandall and Michael Pal
Chapter 19: The Anti-Disciplinary Divide: Canada’s Safe Third Country Agreement, Roxham Road, and the Politicization of Legal Loopholes
Megan Gaucher and Shauna Labman
Selected Bibliography
