YORK UNIVERSITY
POLITICAL SCIENCE AS 4909 3.0
Law, Social Justice and Ethics
Capstone Course
Fall 2007
Tuesday 2:30 - 5:30
S101A Ross
Office Hours: T, F 1-2 pm.
or by appointment
Ray Bazowski
Office: 131 McLaughlin
Phone: 736-2100 ext 20273
e-mail: rbazk@yorku.ca
This course is the capstone course for students with an interest in the area of law, politics
and justice. The course is intended to allow students to utilize the skills and insights they have
developed during their years at university and to apply these to explore current issues in the area
of law, politics and justice.
GRADING SCHEME
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Research paper:
40%
Topics for the research essay will be distributed in class. Original research projects will
be accepted only upon approval of instructor. The essay is due in class November 13.
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Class Presentation:
20%
Each student will be expected to present an oral summary and critique of selected readings
at least twice throughout the year. Such summary should contain the most salient points of the
reading as well as a critical analysis of the argument. A class presentation should last no longer
than fifteen minutes. In addition to making an oral presentation, each student will prepare a
written critical reflection upon his or her presentation to be handed in within the following week.
Marks for this assignment will be based both on the oral in-class presentations and on the
accompanying critical reflections.
iii
Weekly Questions:
20%
Every student will submit written questions pertaining to one of the weekly readings. The
written questions will focus on the central argument of the reading and will be designed to
interrogate that argument. Interrogating an argument in this instance means identifying the core
proposition or assumption underlying the argument, and identifying problems with the
proposition/assumption, or identifying possible research questions prompted by the argument.
The weekly question(s) must be submitted to my mailbox or e-mailed to me a full day in
advance of the seminar to receive a mark. In each term every student can choose one class
for which no “weekly questions” are required.
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Take-home final exam:
20%
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Please note that the last day to drop a fall term half course is November 9.
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Reading and Presentation Schedule
September 11:
Introduction to Course
September 18:
The Courts Decide
Young v. Bella 2006 SCC 3
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2006/2006scc3/2006scc3.html
R. v. Banks, 2007 ONCA 19
http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=David+Banks+et+al.+v.+Her+Majesty+the+Queen
&language=en&searchTitle=Ontario&path=/en/on/onca/doc/2007/2007onca19/2007onca19.html
Canada (Attorney General) v. JTI-Macdonald Corp., 2007 SCC 30
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2007/2007scc30/2007scc30.html
British Columbia (Attorney General) v. Christie, 2007 SCC 21
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2007/2007scc21/2007scc21.html
Health Services and Support - Facilities Subsector Bargaining Assn. v. British Columbia, 2007
SCC 27
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2007/2007scc27/2007scc27.html
Charkaoui v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2007 SCC 9, [2007] 1 S.C.R. 350
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2007/2007scc9/2007scc9.html
September 25:
The Rule of Law
Required Readings:
The Rt. Hon Lord Bingham. The Rule of Law. Centre for Public Law, Faculty of Law,
University of Cambridge, Nov. 16, 2006 can be accessed at:
http://cpl.law.cam.ac.uk/past_activities/the_rule_of_law_text_transcript.php
E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act. Middlesex: Penguin Books,
1997, 258-269.
Morton J. Horwitz, “The Rule of Law: An Unqualified Human Good?” Yale Law Journal, 86
(1977) can be accessed through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp (use JSTOR access)
Daniel H. Cole. “’An Unqualified Human Good': E.P. Thompson and the Rule of Law.”
Journal of Law and Society, 28:2. (Jun., 2001), pp. 177-203 can be accessed through York
University Library’s electronic access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
(use Scholar’s portal).
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Ronald Dworkin, “Political Judges and the Rule of Law,” A Matter of Principle. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1985.
Judith N. Shklar (1987), "Political Theory and the Rule of Law." In A. Hutchinson and P.
Monahan (eds.) The Rule of Law: Ideal or Ideology. Toronto: Carswell, 1987.
Additional Readings:
Valente v. The Queen, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 673 can be accessed at:
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1985/1985rcs2-673/1985rcs2-673.html
Reference re Secession of Quebec, [1998] 2 S.C.R. 217 can be accessed at:
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1998/1998rcs2-217/1998rcs2-217.html
George W. Bush, et al., Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr., et al. 531 U. S. S.C. (2000)
Stevens, J., dissenting can be accessed at: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/00-949P.ZD
October 2:
Lawyers and Judges: Law in Practice I
Required Readings:
Slayton, Philip. Lawyers gone bad: money, sex, and madness in Canada's legal profession.
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2007. Ch.1 and Conclusion.
Duncan Kennedy, “Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy.” In D. Kairys, ed. The Politics of
Law 3r ed. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1998 can be accessed at:
http://www.duncankennedy.net/documents/Legal%20Education%20as%20Training%20for%20H
ierarchy_Politics%20of%20Law.pdf
Susan Boyd, “Corporatism and Legal Education in Canada.” Social and Legal Studies, 14:2
(2005), 287–297 can be accessed through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
Roderick A. Macdonald. “Post-Charter Legal Education. Does Anyone Teach Law Anymore?”
Policy Options, Feb 2007 can be accessed at http://www.irpp.org/po/ (go to the back issues
button for Policy Options and search for the February 2007 issue which contains this and other
articles about the Charter.)
Wilson, Bertha Madam Justice, "Will women judges really make a difference?" Osgoode Hall
Law Journal, Vol. 28 (1990) 507 can be accessed through York University Library’s electronic
access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
James Stribopolous & Moin A.Yahya. “Does A Judge’s Party of Appointment or Gender Matter
To Case Outcomes? An Empirical Study of The Court Of Appeal For Ontario!”
Osgoode Hall Law Journal 45:2, 2007 can be accessed at:
http://osgoode.yorku.ca/osgmedia.nsf/0/388137B1D909C9AF852571CC0053F4B0/$FILE/Ont_C
A_Study_Final.pdf
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Additional Readings:
Janice Tibbetts. “Overburdened women are ditching legal careers, Canada's top judge says.”
CanWest News Service. Wednesday, August 15, 2007 can be accessed at:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=6d8d018c-e36c-4d37-85dc094685e843a6&k=67764
Reference re Remuneration of Judges of the Provincial Court (PEI) 1998 2 SCR 443
http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1997/1997rcs3-3/1997rcs3-3.html
Canada, House of Commons. Preserving Independence in the Judicial Appointment System.
Report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, Art Hanger, MP Chair. 39th
Parliament, 1st Session can be accessed at:
http://cmte.parl.gc.ca/Content/HOC/committee/391/just/reports/rp2970953/391_JUST_Rpt14/391
_JUST_Rpt14-e.pdf
October 9:
Policing, Lawyering, Judging, Sentencing and Prisons: Law in Practice II
Required Readings:
Elizabeth Comack and Gillian Balfour, The Power to Crinminalize: Violence, Inequality and the
Law (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2004), chs. 2 and 5.
Julian V. Roberts, Julia V. and Anthony N. Doob. “Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice in
Canada.” Crime and Justice. Vol. 21 (1997), pp. 469-522 can be accessed through York
University Library’s electronic access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
Dianne Martin, “Accountability Mechanisms Legal Sites of Executive-Police Relations – Core
Principles in a Canadian Context.” Police and Government Relations: Who's Calling the Shots?
Eds. Margaret E. Beare and Tonita Murray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007, 258-312.
Joe Hermer, Michael Kempa, Clifford Shearing, Philip Stening and Jennifer Wood, “Policing in
the Twenty-first Century: Directions for Law Reform.” Re-Imagining Policing in Canada. Ed.
Dennis Cooley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005, 22-91.
October 16: Controversies in the Application of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Required Readings:
Christopher Manfredi. Judicial Power and the Charter 2nd ed. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University
Press, 2001, Conclusion.
Thomas M.J. Bateman, “Rights Application Doctrine and the Clash of Constitutionalisms in
Canada,” Canadian Journal of Political Science, XXXI: 1, 1998 can be accessed through York
University Library’s electronic access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
(use JSTOR access)
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James B. Kelly, “The Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the rebalancing of liberal
constitutionalisn in Canada,” Osgoode Hall Law Journal 37:3 (Fall, 1999) can be accessed
through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
Ian Brodie and F.L. Morton, “Do the Haves Still Come Out Ahead in Canada?” in Stephen L.
Newman, ed., Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States. Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2004.
Gregory Hein, “Interest Group Litigation and Canadian Democracy,” Choices (Montreal: IRPP
2000) 6:2, 1-32 can be accessed at http://www.irpp.org/choices/index.htm (highlight the 2000
publication date and execute search—you will be presented with an issue of Choices devoted to
the Charter).
October 23: Judicial Review and Democracy
Required Readings:
F.L. Morton and Rainer Knopff, The Charter Revolution and the Court Party. Peterborough:
Broadview Press, 2000, 149-166.
Robert Ivan Martin, The Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada Has
Undermined Our Law and Democracy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press,
2005, ch. 2.
Ran Hirschl. Towards Juristocracy The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. Ch. 1 and Conclusion.
Peter Hogg and Allison A. Bushell, “The Charter Dialogue Between Courts and Legislatures,”
Osgoode Hall Law Journal 35:1 (1997) can be accessed through York University Library’s
electronic access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
Janet L. Hiebert. “Parliamentary Bills of Rights: An Alternative Model?” The Modern Law
Review, 69:1 (2006), 7-28 can be accessed through York University Library’s electronic access.
Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp (use Scholar’s portal)
Additional Readings:
Raymond Bazowski, “The Judicialization of the Canadian State,” in James Bickerton and A.-G.
Gagnon, eds., Canadian Politics 4th ed. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2004.
Christopher Manfredi, “Strategic Behaviour and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,”
in P. James, D. Abelson & M. Lusztig, eds., The Myth of the Sacred. Montreal: McGill-Queen's
University Press, 2002.
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October 30: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Required Readings:
Neil C. Sargent, “Is There Any Justice in Alternative Justice” in Michael MacNeil et al, eds.,
Law, Regulation, and Governance. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002, 204-222.
Natasha Bakht, “Family Arbitration Using Sharia Law: Examining Ontario’s Arbitration Act and
Its Impact on Women,” in Muslim World Journal of Human Rights 1:1 (2004) can be accessed
through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp (point your browser to “most popular papers”
in right hand column)
John Braithwaite “Linking Crime Prevention to Restorative Justice.” Paper presented at the First
North American Conference on Conferencing. Minneapolis, 6-8 August 1998. 1998 can be
accessed at http://iirp.org/library/nacc/nacc_bra.html
Jonathan Rudin, “Aboriginal Alternative Dispute Resolution in Canada,” International Journal of
Public Administration 225:11 (2003), 1403-1426.
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The Morin decision: an excerpt can be accessed at:
http://www.usask.ca/nativelaw/publications/jah/worme.html
Restoring the shattered confidence: the factum of the respondent in R. v. Rope:
http://www.usask.ca/nativelaw/publications/jah/worme.html
Addendum to the factum of the respondent in R. v. Rope can be accessed at:
http://www.usask.ca/nativelaw/publications/jah/rope.html
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November 6: The Law and Corporate Governance
Required Readings:
R. Lynn Campbell, “Corporate Governance,” in Michael MacNeil et al, eds., Law, Regulation,
and Governance. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002, 144-170.
Kernaghan Webb, “Government, Private Regulation, and the Role of the Market,” in Michael
MacNeil et al, eds., Law, Regulation, and Governance, 240-263.
Laureen Snider, “Making Corporate Crime Disappear,” in Elizabeth Comack et al, eds., Locating
Law: Race/Class/Gender Connections. Halifax: Fernwood, 1999, 183-207.
Harry Glasbeek, Wealth by Stealth. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 2002, chs. 9 & 10, 244282.
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Joseph Heath and Wayne Norman. “Stakeholder Theory, Corporate Governance and Public
Management: What can the History of State-Run Enterprises Teach us in the Post-Enron era?”
Journal of Business Ethics. 53:3 (September, 2004) 247–265 can be accessed through York
University Library’s electronic access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
(use Springer link).
November 13:
The Law and Risk Society
Required Readings:
Jonathan Snider, “The Emergence of a Risk Society: Insurance, Law and the State,” in Socialist
Review Vol. 17 (1987) 61-89.
George L. Priest, “The New Legal Structure of Risk Control.” Daedalus 119: 4 (Fall 1990), 207227 can be accessed through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
Alan Hunt, “Risk and Moralization in Everyday Life,” in Richard V. Ericson and Aaron Doyle,
eds., Risk and Morality. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, 165-192.
Wendy Chan and George Rigakos, “Risk, Crime and Gender.” British Journal of Criminology
42:4 (2002), 743-761 can be accessed through York University Library’s electronic access. Go
to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp (use the Proquest access)
Dayna Nadine Scott. “When Precaution Points Two Ways: Confronting ‘West Nile Fever’.”
Canadian Journal of Law and Society , 20:2 (2005) pp. 27-65 can be accessed through York
University Library’s electronic access. Go to: http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
November 20:
Law and the Security State
Required Readings:
David Dyzenhaus, “The Permanence of the Temporary: Can Emergency Powers be Normalized?”
in R.J. Daniel, P. Macklem & K. Roach, eds., Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada’s AntiTerrorism Bill. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Kent Roach, “Security and Civil Liberties After September 11: The Canadian Response.” Living
with Uncle: Canada-US Relations in an Age of Empire. Edited by Bruce Campbell and Ed Finn.
Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2006, 54-59.
Reg Whitaker, “A Faustian Bargain? America and the Dream of Total Information Awareness.”
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility. Eds. Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, 141-170.
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Maureen Webb, “The Security Agenda: Driving Deep Integration.” Living with Uncle: CanadaUS Relations in an Age of Empire. 37-53.
Emily Gilbert. “Leaky Borders and Solid Citizens: Governing Security, Prosperity and Quality of
Life in a North American Partnership.” Antipode. 39:1 (February 2007) 77-98 can be accessed
through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp
Additional Readings
http://www.canlii.org/ca/as/2001/c41
Bill C-36 (Canada’s anti-terrorism bill)
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/newsroom/factsheets/2004/0311CanadaSafe-e.html
(Canada Border Services Agency)
Building a 21st Century Canada- United States partnership in North America. A discussion paper
of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives,April 2004 can be accessed at:
http://www.ceocouncil.ca/publications/pdf/8502a13cf417d09eab13468e2a7c9f65/New_Frontiers
_NASPI_Discussion_Paper_April_2004.pdf
November 27:
Courts and Social Policy
Required Readings:
Gerald N. Rosenberg, The hollow hope: can courts bring about social change? Chicago :
University of Chicago, 1993. Conclusion.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, “Law and Democracy: (Mis)trusting the Global Reform of Courts,”
in Globalizing institutions: case studies in regulation and innovation. Eds. Jane Jenson and
Boaventura de Sousa. Burlington USA: Ashgate, 2000.
Harry Arthurs, “Constitutional Courage.” McGill Law Journal. 49:1 (2003) can be accessed
through York University Library’s electronic access. Go to:
http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/jsp/homepage.jsp