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Video

Publication Date

10-5-2012

Keywords

Power (Philosophy); Authority; Implied powers (Constitutional law); Constitutions--United States; Law--United States--Roman influences

Abstract

Nomi Claire Lazar, Associate Professor, Facult of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, explores the reasons for the evident contrast found in the American approach to prerogative power and the centrality of ‘writtenness’ in our understanding of constitutional government.

Respondent: Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School.

Comments

Presented by Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime, and Security, Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership and Osgoode Hall Law School.

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