Law Enforcement, Civil Procedure, Canadian, Supreme Court of Canada 

Contents:
Preface -- Part 1: 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 2: 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 3: 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.