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Article: The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority.(Book review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Jonathan Swainger, ed., The Alberta Supreme Court at 100: History and Authority. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 2007. vii + 366 pp. $44.50 cloth.
Alberta draws a lot of attention these days: its politicians dominate federal politics, and its resource-driven economy inspires envy in some, scorn among others. What about its legal history? There has always remained a vague sense that in law, too, Alberta cultivates a place of distinctiveness within Canada. Can traces of agrarian populism, political experimentalism, rugged individualism, or free market preferences be found in the jurisprudence of the Alberta ...