Appointment of Thomas A. Cromwell to the Supreme Court of Canada / Should Canada have a representative Supreme Court? / Should Supreme Court judges be required to be bilingual? / Respecting legal pluralism in Canada : Indigenous Bar Association appeals to Harper government to appoint an aboriginal justice to the Supreme Court of Canada / Indigenous Bar Association urges Prime Minister Harper to remove barriers to judicial appointments for indigenous judges / Intergovernmental relations and the Supreme Court of Canada : the changing place of the provinces in judicial selection reform / The jurisprudence of "Canada's fundamental values" and appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada / Supreme Court appointments : by Parliament, not PM, and shorter / Looking for the good judge : merit and ideology / Reforming the SCC : rethinking legitimacy and the appointment process / The legitimacy of constitutional arbitration in a multinational federative system : the case of the Supreme Court of Canada / R�eformer le processus de nomination des juges de la Cour supr�eme? / Reform of the Supreme Court of Canada from within : to what extent should the Court weigh in regarding constitutional conventions? / Reforming the Supreme Court : the one-court problem and the two-court solution / The United Kingdom's new Supreme Court / Choosing the deciders : the Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process in the United States / The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany : a central player in the federal state / Constitutional Court appointment : the South African process / The Court of Justice of the European Union : federalizing actor in a multilevel system / Judging Europe : drawing lessons from the European Court of Human Rights / Contributions to a coherent and consistent judges' appointment process of a constitutional court : the case of the Supreme Court of Argentina / The Supreme Court of Canada : a chronology of change / Peter W. Hogg -- Lorne Sossin -- S�ebastien Grammond and Mark Power -- Indigenous Bar Association -- Indigenous Bar Association -- Erin Crandall -- F.C. DeCoste -- Tom Kent -- Allan C. Hutchinson -- Nadia Verrelli -- Eug�enie Brouillet and Yves Tanguay -- Andr�ee Lajoie -- Peter C. Oliver -- Peter McCormick -- Alan Trench -- Aman L. McLeod -- Arthur Benz and Eike-Christian Hornig -- Yonatan T. Fessha -- Achim Hurrelmann and Martin Manolov -- Neil Cruickshank -- Jorge O. Bercholc -- Jonathan Aiello.
The process used to select judges of the Supreme Court of Canada has provoked criticism from the start. Some observers argue the process - where the prime minister has unfettered discretion - suffers from a democratic deficit, but there is also disagreement regarding alternative methods of selection. This book explores the institutional features of the Court, whether the existing process used to select judges ought to be reformed, the overall legitimacy of the Court, as well as the selection and appointment processes of Supreme Court justices in other liberal democracies.
Text in English. Abstracts and some notes on contributors in French.
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Canada. Supreme Court. Canada. Supreme Court --Officials and employees--Selection and appointment. Canada. Cour supr�eme. Canada. Cour supr�eme --Fonctionnaires--S�election et nomination. Canada. Supreme Court. Kanada. Supreme Court
Judges--Selection and appointment--Canada. Judicial process--Canada. Constitutional courts. Juges--S�election et nomination--Canada. Processus judiciaire--Canada. Cours constitutionnelles. POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Canadian Constitutional courts. Judges--Selection and appointment. Judicial process. Richter Ernennung Reform