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In the first dedicated monograph on the topic, Marie France-Fortin traces the historical evolution of the phrase 'the king can do no wrong' in constitutional and public law to shed new light on our current understanding of crown liability.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Understandings of The King Can Do No Wrong in Legal Thinking and Heuristic Model of Crown Liability Derived from Them
- 2: The King Can Do No Wrong in the Late Medieval and Tudor Periods
- 3: The King Can Do No Wrong During the Constitutional Struggles of the Seventeenth Century
- 4: Understandings of The King Can Do No Wrong in Legal Thinking in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 5: Revisiting and Understanding Crown Liability from a Historical Constitutional Perspective
- 6: The King Can Do No Wrong's Travels and Travails Across the Common Law World
- Conclusion
About the author
Dr Marie-France Fortin is an Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Ottawa. Educated at Université Laval (LLB), Harvard Law School (LLM), and the University of Cambridge (LLMi, PhD), she served as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada and worked in public and private practice as a solicitor and barrister before taking up her current position.
Summary
In the first dedicated monograph on the topic, Marie France-Fortin traces the historical evolution of the phrase 'the king can do no wrong' in constitutional and public law to shed new light on our current understanding of crown liability.
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The principal audience will be academic public lawyers and legal historians, though practitioners faced with constitutional cases raising unusual points would also be assisted by the rigorous research and analysis this book offers.
