Table of Contents

Preface
PART ONE: WHAT IS JUDICIAL ACTIVISM?
CHAPTER 1: The Supreme Court on Trial
CHAPTER 2: The Endless American Debate
CHAPTER 3: Judicial Activism before the Charter
CHAPTER 4: The Charter‘s Influential Response to Judicial Activism
CHAPTER 5: An American Debate Comes to Canada
CHAPTER 6: Four Dimensions of Judicial Activism
PART TWO: THE EXTENT OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
CHAPTER 7: The Constrained Creativity of Judicial Law Making
CHAPTER 8: The Limits of Public Law Adjudication
CHAPTER 9: Judicial Acceptance of Limits on Rights
CHAPTER 10: Dialogue between Courts and Legislatures
PART THREE: BEYOND JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
CHAPTER 11: The Myths of Judicial Activism
CHAPTER 12: The Myths of Right Answers
CHAPTER 13: Democratic Dialogue in Theory
CHAPTER 14: Democratic Dialogue in Practice
CHAPTER 15: Judicial Activism and Democratic Dialogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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