Viscount Haldane - ''The Wicked Step-Father of the Canadian Constitution''

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Vaughan is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Klappentext Vaughan's analysis of Haldane's legal philosophy and its impact on the Canadian constitution concludes that his Hegelian legacy is very much alive in today's Supreme Court of Canada and that it continues to shape the constitution and the lives of Canadians since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Zusammenfassung Vaughan's analysis of Haldane's legal philosophy and its impact on the Canadian constitution concludes that his Hegelian legacy is very much alive in today's Supreme Court of Canada and that it continues to shape the constitution and the lives of Canadians since the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Gottingen 1974 Home and School for the Mind The University of Edinburgh and the Seeds of German Philosophy The Practice of Law and the Bar of London From the Inns of Court to the War Office. Haldane in the School of the Master Haldane in the Shadow of Lord Watson Haldane and the Reign of Sittlichkeit In the High Court of Hegel The State and the Reign of Relativity. The Supreme Tribunal of the Empire. Recollections and Last Days Postscript: The Hadlane Legacy and the Modern Court Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Vaughan
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.10.2010
• EAN: 9781442642379
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4237-9
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; Osgoode Society for Canadian L; Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History; Osgoode Society for Canadian L
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education