Table of Contents

Contributors
CHAPTER 1: Introduction – Constance Backhouse

PART ONE: PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER 2: Some Memories of My Father – John I. Laskin
CHAPTER 3: Comments on My Dad – Barbara Laskin

PART TWO: EDUCATOR
CHAPTER 4: Laskin and the University – Martin Friedland
CHAPTER 5: Laskin and the University Crisis of 1949 – Horace Krever

PART THREE: IMPACT ON THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
CHAPTER 6: Laskin’s Legacy to the Supreme Court – Ian Binnie
CHAPTER 7: Laskin’s Impact on the Supreme Court – Peter W. Hogg
CHAPTER 8: Memories of Laskin at the Court – Sheridan Scott

PART FOUR: SUBSTANTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO LAW
CHAPTER 9: Laskin’s Legacy to National Unity and Patriation – R. Roy McMurtry
CHAPTER 10: Laskin’s Legacy to Law – J.J. Michel Robert

PART FIVE: ADMINISTRATIVE AND LABOUR LAW
CHAPTER 11: Chief Justice Laskin’s Approach to Administrative Law – Stephen T. Goudge
CHAPTER 12: Laskin’s Contribution to Labour Law – Chris G. Paliare

PART SIX: CONSTITUTIONA LAW, FEDERALISM, AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
CHAPTER 13: Laskin and the Constitutional Protection of Rights and Freedoms – Robert J. Sharpe

PART SEVEN: CONTRACT, TORTS, AND FIDUCIARY OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER 14: The Laskin Legacy in Private Law: The Judge as Custodian of the Common Law – John D. McCamus
CHAPTER 15: Laskin and Fiduciary Duties – Kathryn N. Feldman

PART EIGHT: LASKIN IN DISSENT
CHAPTER 16: Chief Justice Bora Laskin: The Great Dissenter – Neil Finkelstein

PART NINE: REASSESSMENT: THE NEXT GENERATION
CHAPTER 17: Bora Laskin: Lifting the Legacy from the Legend – Ellen Snow

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