Friends of the Court: The Privileging of Interest Group Litigants in Canada (American Constitutionalism) - Softcover

Brodie, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791453006 ISBN 13: 9780791453001

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2002

Synopsis

Studies interest group litigation in Canada.

In the first book-length study of interest group litigation in Canada, Friends of the Court traces the Canadian Supreme Court’s ever-changing relationship with interest groups since the 1970s. After explaining how the Court was pressured to welcome more interest groups in the late 1980s, Brodie introduces a new theory of political status describing how the Court privileges certain groups over others. By uncovering the role of the state in encouraging and facilitating litigation, this book challenges the idea that interest group litigation in Canada is a grassroots phenomenon.

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In the first book-length study of interest group litigation in Canada, Friends of the Court traces the Canadian Supreme Court's ever-changing relationship with interest groups since the 1970s. After explaining how the Court was pressured to welcome more interest groups in the late 1980s, Brodie introduces a new theory of political status describing how the Court privileges certain groups over others. By uncovering the role of the state in encouraging and facilitating litigation, this book challenges the idea that interest group litigation in Canada is a grassroots phenomenon.

About the Author

Ian Brodie is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0791453006
• ISBN 13: 9780791453001
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 183