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
- Historical Development of the Common Law
- J. H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (3rd ed., Butterworths, 1990), pp. 14-62
- 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
- Equity
- J. E. Martin, Hanbury and Martin’s Modern Equity (18th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2009), pp. 1-48
- Reception of the Common Law in Canada
- Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie Britannique v. British Columbia, 2013 SCC 42
- Constitution of Delaware, 1776, art. 25
- Northwest Territories Act, 1886, s. 11
- Turner v. Big Lake Oil,128 Tex. 155 (1936)
- Fleming v. Atkinson, [1959] S.C.R. 513
- Organization of the Courts in North America
- Canada, Department of Justice, Canada’s Court System
- 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
- Ratio Decidendi
- A.T.H. Smith, Glanville Williams: Learning the Law(14th ed., Sweet & Maxwell, 2010), pp. 93-120
- R. v. Fenton (1830), 1 Lew C.C. 179
- R. v. Franklin (1883), 15 Cox C.C. 163
- Ploof v. Putnam, 81 Vt. 471, 71 A. 188 (1908)
- Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co., 109 Minn. 456, 124 N.W. 221 (1910)
- Stare Decisis
- House of Lords, Practice Statement (Judicial Precedent), [1966] 1 W.L.R. 1234
- Re Waring, Westminster Bank v. Burton-Butler, [1948] 1 All ER 257
- MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., 217 N.Y. 382, 111 N.E. 1050 (1916)
- Young v. Bristol Aeroplane Co. Ltd.,[1944] K.B. 718
- Holmes v. Jarrett (1993), 68 O.R. (3d) 667
- Judicial Development of the Law
- Lord Reid, The Judge as Lawmaker (1972), 12 The Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (n.s.) 22
- Jones v. Tsige, 2012 ONCA 32
- Thinking about the Common Law
- T. F. T. Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law (Little Brown, 1956), pp. 342-350
- C.C. Langdell, A Selection of Cases on the Law of Contract (Little Brown, 1871), v-vii
- O. Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law (1897), 10 Harv. L. Rev. 457
Wednesday: Library Training
Thursday: Sessions 9-10
- Legislation in the Common Law Tradition (Professor Daly)
- R. Munday, The Common Lawyer’s Philosophy of Legislation (1983), 14 Rechtstheorie 191
- A. Scalia, A Matter of Interpretation (Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 3-48
- Riggs v. Palmer, 115 N.Y. 506 (1889)
- Pepper v. Hart, [1993] A.C. 593
- Damages in the Common Law (Professor Harrington)
- S. Beaulac, A Comparative Look at Punitive Damages in Canada, in The Joy of Torts 351 (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003), pp. 352-373
- Rookes v. Barnard, [1964] A.C. 1129
- B.M.W. v. Gore, 517 U.S. 559 (1996)
- Whiten v. Pilot Insurance Co., [2002] 1 S.C.R. 595
FRIDAY MORNING: SESSION 11
- North American Judicial Review
- Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
- 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
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