Cases Argued Professor Magnet has been counsel in numerous constitutional, administrative and criminal cases before trial courts, courts of appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Several of his facta are available online on this website. Courses Taught Federalism Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Comparative Constitutional Law  (at University of Haifa, Israel) Constitutional Theory (at Central  European University, Budapest) Current Issues in Constitutional Law Constitutional Litigation (jointly taught  Mr. Lawrence Greenspon) International Protection of Minorities Minority Rights in the Multinational State Administrative Law Supreme Court of Canada Seminar Provincial Criminal Court Seminar  (jointly taught with Andrejs Berzins,  QC, Crown Attorney, Ottawa-Carleton)

About Professor Joseph E. Magnet Joseph Eliot Magnet, F.R.S.C., B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D. is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. He clerked for Chief Justice Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, served as Assistant Crown Attorney in Ottawa,  Distinguished Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Professor, University of Haifa, Israel, and Visiting Professor Central European University, Budapest. He has acted as counsel in many constitutional cases in the Supreme Court of Canada and the appellate courts of Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba. He has been advisor to the Canadian Federal, Provincial and Territorial Governments on constitutional matters, and has acted as counsel for many minority groups, corporations and others. Professor Magnet is the author of ten books, including Constitutional Law of Canada, 8th edition, Federalism for the Future: Essential Reforms, Official Languages of Canada: Perspectives from Law, Policy and the Future and Withholding Treatment from Defective Newborn Children, and eighty articles on legal subjects, particularly constitutional law. He has lectured on constitutional law widely in Canada and around the world, frequently testifies on constitutional matters before House of Commons and Senate Committees, and is a regular radio, television and op-ed commentator on legal subjects for the major national media.  Joseph Magnet - Constitutional Law, 8th ed. - Other Texts Constitutional Law in Canada - Constitutional Law Elsewhere Division of Powers: Syllabus - Exams - Topics - Links Charter of Rights: Syllabus - Exams - Topics - Links