McGill, JenaDrake, KarenKirkup, KyleLevesque, AnneSealy-Harringto, Joshua2025-11-182025-11-182025-11-119780776641911https://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776641898/critical-conversations-in-canadian-public-law/http://hdl.handle.net/10393/51060Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law is a groundbreaking open-access collection of peer-reviewed essays showcasing interdisciplinary thinking on topical public law issues at the forefront of the evolving relationship between state and society. In Canada, this relationship is undergoing a period of significant reinvention, as evidenced, for example, by the movements for reconciliation, decolonization and Indigenization, the calls to recognize and remedy systemic racism in institutions including police forces, and the recent extension of human rights protections to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity or expression. These examples reveal that we are experiencing a moment where claims that challenge the normative foundations of the discipline of public law are being made in real time; claims about citizenship, rights, and access to resources and benefits; claims about what substantive and procedural fairness look like, and for whom; claims about the obligations and limits of the state to proactively address both historical and current injustices; and challenges to the underlying assumptions about the state itself. Critical Conversations in Canadian Public Law highlights the intersections of critical perspectives–including intersectional approaches to decolonial and Indigenous legal theory, Indigenous constitutionalisms, critical race theory, feminisms, queer theory and critical disability theory–and public law topics, broadly defined. This collection bridges the divide between traditional, largely liberal, public law scholarship and critical perspectives by centring critical theories as not only relevant, but imperative, to robust, fully contextualized understandings of contemporary public law challenges.List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Joshua Sealy-Harrington, Karen Drake, Kyle Kirkup, Anne Levesque, and Jena McGill Section A: Indigenous Peoples and Critical Approaches to Canadian Law Chapter A-1 Critical Theory and Crown-Indigenous Relations Gordon Christie Chapter A-2 Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities to Language Transmission: Implementing Article 14 of UNDRIP Lorena Sekwan Fontaine Chapter A-3 Critical Approaches to Jurisdiction: The Struggle for Control of Indigenous Lands and Resources Dayna Nadine Scott Chapter A-4 Four Views of Métis Constitutionalism Kerry Sloan Chapter A-5 Wanted: Indigenous Representation on the Supreme Court of Canada (But the Indian in the Child Must Be Gone!) Harry S. LaForme Section B: Policing, Criminal Law, and the Carceral State Chapter B-1 Is Gladue Sentencing Exceptional? Lisa Kerr Chapter B-2 Abolitionist Lawyers: Making Prisons Obsolete Reakash Walters Chapter B-3 Être puni·e sans nécessairement être condamné·e : la punitivité avant procès et au-delà de la matière criminelle en droit canadien Véronique Fortin et João Velloso Chapter B-4 The Hunt for Red October: Critical Race Theory and Racial McCarthyism Vincent Wong Chapter B-5 The School Policing Origins of R v Grant Lisa M. Kelly Chapter B-6 An Open Letter to Legal Workers: Imagining a World Beyond Civilian Oversight of Policing Meenakshi Mannoe Section C: Boundaries and Borders of Public Law Chapter C-1 The Xenophobic Gap in the Charter’s Equality Guarantee Y. Y. Brandon Chen Chapter C-2 Disruptive Choices: Agency, Religious Freedom, and Veiling Muslim Women in Canadian Constitutional Law Ashleigh Keall Chapter C-3 Pour une application de la Charte fondée sur les droits de l’enfant Mona Paré Chapter C-4 Critical Disability Theory and Public Law in Canada: The Case of Longueépée v University of Waterloo Ravi Malhotra Chapter C-5 Critical Perspectives in Canadian Tax Law Samuel Singer and Allison Christians BiographiesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/LawPublic LawCritical Legal TheoryConstitutional LawCritical Race TheoryFeminist Legal TheoryIndigenous Legal TheoryIndigenous ConstitutionalismsQueer Legal TheoryBook