canons of construction university of alberta

• "Just words": common law and the enforcement of state constitutional social and economic rights.

..., as interpretive authority in their construction and application of private law doctrines. Thus, fo... concept of plenary legislative power and canons of constitutional interpretation). . (96.) Hershko... the Struggle for a Living Wage at the University of Mississippi, 70 MISS. L.J. 945, 970 (2001) (sta... and the Case for Legal Humanism, 38 ALBERTA L. REV. 941, 944 (2001) (quoting Richard Rorty, Hu...

• Stanford Law Review
• Vol. 62 Nbr. 6, June 2010

• On the Origins of Originalism

For all its proponents' claims of its necessity as a means of constraining judges, originalism is remarkably unpopular outside the United States. Recommended responses to judicial activism in other countries more typically take the form of minimalism or textualism. This Article considers why. I focus particular attention on the political and constitutional histories of Canada and Australia, nations that, like the United States, have well-established traditions of judicial enforcement of a written constitution, and that share with the United States a common law adjudicative norm, but whose political and legal cultures less readily assimilate judicial restraint to constitutional historicism. I offer six hypotheses as to the influences that sensitize our own culture to such historicism: th...

... and law alike, and constitutional construction, which is a political and adjudicative exercise de... polls conducted annually by Quinnipiac University from 2003 to 2008 consistently found that roughly ... accelerated the judiciary's break from the canons of British statutory interpretation. Thus, althoug...Alberta,203 the Court found unconstitutional the Alberta I...

• Texas Law Review
• Vol. 88 Nbr. 1, November 2009

• Exemplum and Imitatio: Countess Matilda and Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola at Polirone.

... Polirone near Mantua for the construction of a new abbey church. Her donation was made possi...diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1991. . Luchino, Benedett... (45, 104) mentions her donations to the canons' chapter and Opera of the Duomo in Modena (documen...Alberta de Nicolo Salmazo and Francesco Trolese, exh. cat....

• The Art Bulletin
• Vol. 81 Nbr. 4, December 1999