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Books
Canadian
o   Bakan et al., Canadian Constitutional Law, 3rd ed. (Toronto: E. Montgomery, 2003)
o   Bakvis & Skogstad, Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy (Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, 2008)
o   Beatty, D., Constitutional Law in Theory and Practice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995)
o   Connors & Law, Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2005)
o   Forcese & Freeman, The Laws of Government: The Legal Foundations of Canadian Democracy. 2nd ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011)
o   Funston & Meehan, Canadian Constitutional Documents Consolidated, 2nd ed. (Scarborough: Carswell, 2007)
o   Henderson, J., Treaty Rights in the Constitution of Canada (Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2007)
o   Hueglin & Fenna, Comparative Federalism: a Systematic Inquiry (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2006)
o   * Hogg, Constitutional law of Canada, 5th ed. (Scarborough: Thomson Carswell, looseleaf) (2 volumes)
o   Hogg, Constitutional law of Canada, Student ed. (Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2009)
o   Howe, Judicial Power and Canadian Democracy (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)
o   Huscroft & Brodie, Constitutionalism in the Charter Era (Markham: Butterworths, 2004)
o   La Forest, G., The Allocation of the Taxing Power under the Canadian Constitution, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Canadian Tax Foundation, 1981)
o   Laskin & Finkelstein, Laskin’s Canadian Constitutional Law, 5th ed. (Toronto:  Carswell, 1986)
o   * Lokan & Dassios, Constitutional litigation in Canada (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o   Macklem, P., Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)
o   * Magnet, J., Constitutional Law of Canada: federalism, aboriginal peoples, 9th ed. (Edmonton: Juriliber, 2007)
o   Mitchell et al., A living tree: the legacy of 1982 in Canada's political evolution (Markham: LexisNexis Canada, 2007)
o   * Monahan & Shaw, Constitutional Law, 4th ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2013)
o   Ribeiro, M., Limiting Arbitrary Power: the Vagueness Doctrine in Canadian Constitutional Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004)
o   * Roach, K., Constitutional Remedies in Canada (Aurora: Canada Law Book, looseleaf)
o   Romanow, Whyte & Leeson, Canada - notwithstanding: the making of the Constitution 1976-1982, 25th anniversary ed. (Toronto: Thomson/Carswell, 2007)
o   Samuels, R., Canadian constitutional development since 1535 (Ottawa: The Agora Cosmopolitan, 2003)
o   Smith, D., Federalism and the constitution of Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2010)
o   Sproat, Equality Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Toronto: Carswell, looseleaf)
o   Tarantino, B., Under Arrest: Canadian Laws You Won't Believe (Toronto: Dundurn, 2007)
o   The Confederation Debates in the Province of Canada, 1865: A Selection, 2nd ed. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
o   Tierney, S., Multiculturalism and the Canadian constitution (Vancouver : UBC Press, 2007)
o   Watts, R., Comparing federal systems, 3rd ed. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008)
 
English
See also the English textbooks on the Administrative law page: http://www.legaltree.ca/node/3
o   Bobbitt, P., Constitutional Interpretation (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 1991)
o   Choudhry, S., The Migration of Constitutional Ideas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
o   Choudhry, S. Constitutional design for divided societies: integration or accommodation? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
o   Holt, J., Magna Carta, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
o   Jowell & Oliver, The Changing Constitution, 6th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o   King, A., The British Constitution (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o   Leyland, P., The Constitution of the United Kingdom: A Contextual Analysis (Oxford: Hart Pub., 2007)
o   Loughlin & Walker, The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o   Maitland, Constitutional History of England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909)
o   Schweber, H., The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
o   Turpin & Tomkins, British Government and the Constitution: Text and Materials, 6th ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
o   Tushnet, M., Bills of Rights (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007)
o   Zucca, L., Constitutional Dilemmas: Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights in Europe and the USA (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
 
American
o   Barron & Dienes, Constitutional Law in a Nutshell, 6th ed. (St. Paul, Minn.: West Pub. Co., 2005)
o   Barber & Fleming, Constitutional interpretation: the basic questions (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o   Chemerinsky, E., Constitutional law: principles and policies, 3rd ed. (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2006)
o   Cohen, H., Obscenity and Indecency: Constitutional Principles and Federal Statutes (New York: Novinka Books, 2003)
o   Drew, K., Magna Carta (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004)
o   Ides & May, Constitutional Law -- Individual Rights: Examples and Explanations, 4th ed. (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2007)
o   Levy, R., The Power to Legislate: a Reference Guide to the United States Constitution (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2006)
o   Martin, F., The constitution as treaty: the international legal constructionalist approach to the U.S. Constitution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
o   Powell, H., Constitutional conscience: the moral dimension of judicial decision (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)
o   Redlich, Attanasio, & Goldstein, Understanding constitutional law, 3rd ed. (Newark: LexisNexis, 2005)
 
Other countries
o   Barnard, C., The Fundamentals of EU law revisited: assessing the impact of the constitutional debate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o   Blackshield & Williams, Australian constitutional law and theory: commentary and materials, 4th ed. (Annandale: Federation Press, 2006)
o   Carney, G., The constitutional systems of the Australian states and territories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
o   Dinnage & Murphy, The constitutional law of the European Union, 2nd ed. (Newark: LexisNexis Matthew Bender, 2008)
o   Hanks, P., Constitutional law in Australia, 2nd ed. (Sydney: LexisNexis Butterworths, 1996)
o   Neuwahl & Haack, Unresolved issues of the Constitution for Europe: rethinking the crisis (Montreal: Editions Themis, 2007)
o   Oliver, P., Constitution of Independence: the Development of Constitutional Theory in Australia, Canada and New Zealand (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
o   Pearce & Argument, Delegated legislation in Australia, 3rd ed. (Chatswood: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2005)
o   Ratnapala, S., Australian Constitutional Law: Foundations and Theory (South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2007)
o   Van der Walt, A., Constitutional Property Law (Cape Town: Juta, 2005)
o   Zines, L., The High Court and the Constitution, 5th ed. (Annandale, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2008)
 
Websites
Canadian
Canadian constitution
 
Canada constitutional chronology
 
Canada's Constitutional Evolution
 
Canadian Constitutional Documents
 
Centre for Constitutional Studies
  
Government of Canada bijuralism website
 
Other
The Solon Law Archive (Various constitutional documents)
 
The Constitution Society
 
Constitutional documents from many countries
 
International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL)

 

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