Disciplinary Divides in the Study of Law and Politics

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