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Seminar with Vanessa MacDonnell, University of Ottawa

Faculty of Law

The New Parliamentary Sovereignty

Friday 22 May 2015
15.00
SW1.18, Somerset House East Wing

In this seminar, Professor MacDonnell will discuss the variant of

parliamentary sovereignty which survives the entrenchment of the
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This sovereignty, she
argues, is not unencumbered. Rather, it accepts that even the
political sphere is infused with Charter values. She argues that the
space allocated to sovereign activity by Parliament depends largely
on the extent to which politicians are willing to adopt a Charter
values-based politics.
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