Adam M. Dodek

University of Ottawa - Common Law Section

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57 Louis Pasteur Street

Ottawa, K1N 6N5

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1.

Conflicted Identities: The Battle Over the Duty of Loyalty in Canada

(2011) 14:2 Legal Ethics 193
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2014
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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conflict of interest, legal profession, canada, legal ethics, self-regulation, professional responsibility, lawyer-client relationship

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Lawyering at the Intersection of Public Law and Legal Ethics: Government Lawyers as Custodians of the Rule of Law

Dalhousie Law Journal, Vol. 33. No. 1, 2010, pp. 1-53
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Government Lawyers, Prosecutors, Rule of Law, Public Law

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Solicitor-Client Privilege in Canada: Challenges for the 21st Century

Canadian Bar Association, 2011
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Attorney-Client Privilege, Legal Professional Privilege, Solicitor-Client Privilege, Evidence, Courts, Privilege

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Omnibus Bills: Constitutional Constraints and Legislative Liberations

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Regulating Law Firms in Canada

Vol. 90, No. 2 (July 2012) Canadian Bar Review 383-440
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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law firms, regulation of lawyers, self-regulation, lawyer discipline, canada, legal profession, comparative regulation, professions

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When Silence Isn't Golden: Constitutional Conventions, Constitutional Culture, and the Governor General

PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS, Peter H. Russell, Lorne Sossin, eds., University of Toronto Press, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Lorne Sossin and Adam M. Dodek
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Constitution, Parliament, Governor General, Crown, conventions, prime minister, accountability, reasons

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Reconceiving Solicitor-Client Privilege

Queen's Law Journal, Vol. 35, p. 493, 2010
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Privilege, Attorney-Client Privilege, Solicitor-Client Privilege, Courts, Evidence

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Canada as Constitutional Exporter: The Rise of the 'Canadian Model' of Constitutionalism

Supreme Court Law Review, Second Series, Vol. 36, 2007
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Dec 2007
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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constitutional law, canada, comparative law, non-US constitutional law, law and politics, courts

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Sex on the Internet and Fitness for Judicial Office: Correspondent's Report from Canada

Legal Ethics, Vol. 13, No. 2, p. 215, 2010
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 15 Jan 2011
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Judicial Independence, Judicial Conduct, Legal Profession, Law Society, Self-Regulation, Canada, Judges, Lawyer-Client Relationship, Law Firms

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Judicial Independence in Context

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN CONTEXT, A. Dodek & L. Sossin, eds., Irwin Law, 2010
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Oct 2010
Adam M. Dodek and Lorne Sossin
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Judiciary, Judicial Independence, Separation of Powers, Canada, United States, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa, Courts, Judges

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Judicial Independence as a Public Policy Instrument

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Judicial Independence as a Public Policy Instrument

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN CONTEXT, Adam Dodek & Lorne Sossin, eds., (Irwin Law, 2010)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 06 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2015
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Judicial Independence, Judges, Canada, Public Policy, Extra-Judicial, Abortion, Public Inquiries, Commissions of Inquiry, Executive, Judiciary

Judicial Independence as a Public Policy Instrument

CLPE Research Paper No. 10/2009
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Jun 2009
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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judicial independence, judges, Canada, public policy, extra-judicial, abortion, public inquiries, commissions of inquiry, executive, judiciary

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Courting Constitutional Danger: Constitutional Conventions and the Legacy of the Patriation Reference

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 54, pp. 117-142, 2011
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Dec 2011
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Constitution, References, Patriation, courts, judicial review, constitutional conventions, justiciability

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Reforming the Supreme Court Appointment Process, 2004-2014: A Ten Year Democratic Audit

(2014) 67 Supreme Court Law Review (2nd Ser.) 111., Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2014-07
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 22 May 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Supreme Court, Judges, Appointment, Executive, Judiciary

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Risk Regulation for the Legal Profession

Alberta Law Review, Volume 55, No 3, pp. 621, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2017-41
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2018
Adam M. Dodek and Emily Alderson
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Government of Canada - Department of Justice
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legal profession, regulation, risk regulation, law society, lawyers, canada, public interest, regulatory objectives

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The Public Safety Exception to Solicitor-Client Privilege: Smith v. Jones

University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 34, p. 293, 2000
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Legal Ethics, Solicitor-Client Privilege, Duty to Warn, Tort, Professional Responsibility, Attorney-Client Privilege

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Canada: Death of a Legal Icon, Dawn of Change?

Legal Ethics, Vol 17, No. 1, June 2014, pp. 135-137, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2014-20
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 08 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Legal profession, Law firms, Canada

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Front Matter for In Search of the Ethical Lawyer: Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession

Adam Dodek & Alice Woolley, eds., In Search of the Ethical Lawyer: Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession (UBC Press, 2016), Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2016-04
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 04 May 2016
Adam M. Dodek, Alice Woolley and Paul Wells
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Maclean's
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Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility, Access to Justice, Privilege, Confidentiality, Women, Equality, Pro Bono, Civility, Feminism, Criminal Defence, Mindfullness, Wrongful Convictions, Criminal Law

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Canadian Legal Ethics: Ready for the Twenty-First Century at Last

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 46, No. 1, p. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jun 2008
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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legal ethics, legal profession, canada, legal scholarship, professional responsibility, ethical lawyering, ethics, Canadian legal ethics, comparative legal ethics

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A Tale of Two Maps: The Limits of Universalism in Comparative Judicial Review

(2009) 47 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 287-316., CLPE Research Paper No. 14/2008
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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comparative constitutional law, judicial review, particularism, universalism, legitimacy

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Lawyers, Guns and Money: Lawyers and Power in Canadian Society

David L. Blaikie, The Hon. Thomas A. Cromwell & Darrel Pink, eds., Why Good Lawyers Matter (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2012) 57-81.
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Lawyers, Legal Profession, Legal Profession, Rule of Law, Canada, Legal Ethics, Professional Responsibility

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The Dutiful Conscript: An Originalist View of Justice Wilson's Conception of Charter Rights and Their Limits

Supreme Court Law Review, Second Series, Vol. 41, p. 331, 2008
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada Constitutional Law, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Judicial Review, Canada, Judges, Courts, Bertha Wilson, Supreme Court of Canada, Originalism, Constitutional Interpretation

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State v. Zuma: The Future of Constitutional Democracy in South Africa

Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 121, 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Aug 2009
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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South Africa, African National Congress, constitutionalism, Rule of Law, independence of the judiciary, comparative constitutional law, prosecutorial independence

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The Canadian Override: Constitutional Model or Bête Noire of Constitutional Politics?

(2016) 49 Israel Law Review 45, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2015-8
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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constitutional law of Israel, Canadian constitutional law, legal transplants, judicial supremacy, Parliamentary supremacy, comparative constitutional law, notwithstanding clause

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The Increasing Irrelevance of Section 1 of the Charter

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 14, p. 175, 2001
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 04 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Christopher D. Bredt and Adam M. Dodek
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Judicial Review, Canada, Canadian Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Balancing, Limitation of Rights

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An Education and Apprenticeship in Civility: Correspondent's Report from Canada

Legal Ethics, Vol. 14, No. 2, p. 239, 2011
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Dec 2011
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Legal Profession, Law Schools, Legal Education, Apprenticeship, Lifelong Learning, Professional Responsibility, Regulation

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The Sacred Fire: The Legacy of Antonio Lamer (Chief Justice of Canada)/Le Feu Sacré : L’Héritage D’Antonio Lamer, Juge En Chef Du Canada (French)

THE SACRED FIRE: THE LEGACY OF ANTONIO LAMER (CHIEF JUSTICE OF CANADA) / LE FEU SACRÉ: L’HÉRITAGE D’ANTONIO LAMER, JUGE EN CHEF DU CANADA, Adam Dodek, & Daniel Jutras, eds., LexisNexis Canada, 2009
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 29 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Adam M. Dodek and Daniel Jutras
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice of Canada, Constitutional Law, Canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms

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The Past, Present and Future of Fixed Election Dates in Canada

Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, Vol. 4, p. 215, 2010
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Sep 2011
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Introduction: The McLachlin Court's First Decade - A Dynamic Time for Public Law

PUBLIC LAW AT THE MCLACHLIN COURT: THE FIRST DECADE, David A. Wright and Adam M. Dodek, eds., Irwin Law, 2011
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Oct 2011
Adam M. Dodek and David A. Wright
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section and Law Society Tribunal
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Supreme Court of Canada, Public Law, Canada, Constitutional Law, Aboriginal Law, Administrative Law, courts, chief justice, judiciary

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Constitutional Hierarchy: Solicitor-Client Privilege as Super-Constitutional Right

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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solicitor-client privilege, canadian constitutional law, evidence, lawyer-client privilege, attorney-client privilege, canada

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Canadian Legal Ethics: A Subject in Search of Scholarship

University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 50, p. 115, 2000
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Legal Profession, Professional Responsibility, Legal Education, Canadian Legal Ethics, Legal Ethics, Comparative Law

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Breaking the Law's Grip on Equality: A New Paradigm for Section 15

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 20, p.33, 2003
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Christopher D. Bredt and Adam M. Dodek
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canadian Constitution, Canadian Charter, Canada, equality, dignity, balancing, judicial review, comparative law, comparative constitutionalism, comparative equality

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Rediscovering Constitutional Law: Succession Upon the Death of the Prime Minister

University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Vol. 49, p. 33, 2000
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Canadian Constitutional Law, Prime Minister, Succession, Governor General, death in office, constituitonal conventions, reserve powers

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Uncovering the Wall Surrounding the Castle of the Constitution: Judicial Interpretation of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982

Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Constitutional Amendment in Canada: The Law and Politics of Part V of the Constitution Act, 1982 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016) 42-64, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2015-13
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canadian constitutional law, constitutional amendment, constitutional architecture, Part V of the Constitution Act 1982

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Chief Justice Lamer and Policy Design at the Supreme Court of Canada

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 93, 2009 (2nd Series)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Mar 2010
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Charter, Supreme Court of Canada, Constitutional Law, Canadian Constitutional Law, Judicial Policy Making, Policy, Judicial Review, Judicial Activism

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The Politics of the Senate Reform Reference: Fidelity, Frustration and Federal Unilateralism

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 60, No. 4, 2015, pp. 623-672., Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2016-10
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 03 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Senate, Supreme Court of Canada, Separation of Powers, Constitution, Constitutional Amendment, Legislature, Upper House, Prime Minister, Stephen Harper

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Where Did (Section) I Come from? The Debates Over the Limitations Clause at the Special Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the Constitution, 1980-81

National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 27, p. 77, 2010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 05 Sep 2011
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, constitutional law, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, judicial interpretation, constitutional interpretation, judicial review, limitations clause, constitutional history

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Fixing Our Fixed Election Date Legislation

Canadian Parliamentary Review, p. 19, Spring 2009
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 10 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2013
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, Prime Minister, Elections, Governor General, Parliament, Constitution, Conventions

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Constitutional Legitimacy and Responsibility: Confronting Allegations of Bias after Wewaykum Indian Band v. Canada

The Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 25, p. 165, 2004
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Courthouse Cancellations and Challenges to Self-Regulation: Correspondent’s Report from Canada

Legal Ethics, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 125-28, Summer 2011
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Jul 2011
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Canada, self-regulation, judicial ethics, legal profession, sexual relationship with client, judicial regulation

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The Past, Present and Future of Fixed Election Date Legislation in Canada

(2010) 4 Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 215
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Nov 2012
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Parliament, Legislature, Government, Elections, Crown, Constitution, Conventions, Legislation

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Evidence Re Fixed Election Date Legislation Submitted to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Oct 2010
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Elections, Parliament, Canada, Legislators, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Conventions, Fixed Election Date, Legislation, Parliamentary Reform, Democratic Deficit

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Addressing the Senate's 'Triple 'D' Deficit': The Senate as Driver of Its Own Reform

(2015) 24 Constitutional Forum 39, Ottawa Faculty of Law Working Paper No. 2015-16
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2017
Adam M. Dodek
University of Ottawa - Common Law Section
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Senate reform, Canadian constitutional law, law and democracy