DRT 6565 : Fondements et méthodes de la Common Law

Sources et évolution de la Common Law en Angleterre. Institutions canadiennes et américaines; changements dans la structure ou le mandat des institutions. Liens entre les sources et les institutions, tant en droit anglo-canadien qu’américain.

 

Pr. Paul Daly

Pr. M. P. Harrington

 

Monday: Sessions 1-4

  1. Historical Development of the Common Law
    1. J. H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (3rd ed., Butterworths, 1990), pp. 14-62
    2. J. H. Langbein, R. L. Lerner & B. P. Smith, History of the Common Law : The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (Aspen, 2009), pp. 87-105

 

  1. Equity
    1. J. E. Martin, Hanbury and Martin’s Modern Equity (18th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2009), pp. 1-48

 

  1. Reception of the Common Law in Canada
    1. Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie Britannique v. British Columbia, 2013 SCC 42
    2. Constitution of Delaware, 1776, art. 25
    3. Northwest Territories Act, 1886, s. 11
    4. Turner v. Big Lake Oil,128 Tex. 155 (1936)
    5. Fleming v. Atkinson, [1959] S.C.R. 513

 

  1. Organization of the Courts in North America
    1. Canada, Department of Justice, Canada’s Court System
    2. Office of United States Courts Federal Judicial Center, The Federal Court System in the United States (3rd. ed., 2010), pp. 1-36


 

Tuesday: Sessions 5-8

  1. Ratio Decidendi
    1. A.T.H. Smith, Glanville Williams: Learning the Law(14th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2010), pp. 93-120
    2. R. v. Fenton (1830), 1 Lew C.C. 179
    3. R. v. Franklin (1883), 15 Cox C.C. 163
    4. Ploof v. Putnam, 81 Vt. 471, 71 A. 188 (1908)
    5. Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co., 109 Minn. 456, 124 N.W. 221 (1910)

 

  1. Stare Decisis
    1. House of Lords, Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent), [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1234
    2. Re Waring, Westminster Bank v. Burton-Butler, [1948] 1 All ER 257
    3. MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 217 N.Y. 382, 111 N.E. 1050 (1916)
    4. Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd.,[1944] K.B. 718
    5. Holmes v. Jarrett (1993), 68 O.R. (3d) 667

 

  1. Judicial Development of the Law
    1. Lord Reid, The Judge as Lawmaker (1972), 12 The Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (n.s.) 22
    2. Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32

 

  1. Thinking about the Common Law
    1. T. F. T. Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law (Little Brown, 1956), pp. 342-350
    2. C.C. Langdell, A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contract (Little Brown, 1871), v-vii
    3. O. Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law (1897), 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457

 

 

Wednesday: Library Training


 

Thursday: Sessions 9-10

  1. Legislation in the Common Law Tradition (Professor Daly)
    1. R. Munday, The Common Lawyer’s Philosophy of Legislation (1983), 14 Rechtstheorie 191
    2. A. Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation (Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 3-48
    3. Riggs v. Palmer, 115 N.Y. 506 (1889)
    4. Pepper v. Hart, [1993] A.C. 593

 

  1. Damages in the Common Law (Professor Harrington)
    1. S. Beaulac, A Comparative Look at Punitive Damages in Canada, in The Joy of Torts 351 (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003), pp. 352-373
    2. Rookes v. Barnard, [1964] A.C. 1129
    3. B.M.W. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996)
    4. Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., [2002] 1 S.C.R. 595

 

FRIDAY MORNING: SESSION 11

  1. North American Judicial Review
    1. Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
    2. M.P. Harrington, Saying What the Law Is: Marbury v. Madison’s Expansion of the Idea of Judicial Review (2011), 16 Judicial Rev. 142

 

FRIDAY: FINAL EXAM

This content has been updated on August 23, 2014 at 12:19.