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Law, Religion and Public Discourse FALL 2006 # Jennifer Nedelskyand Roger Hutchinson 's COURSE PACK UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW Law, Religion and Public Discourse FALL 2006 Jennifer Nedelsky and Roger Hutchinson COURSE PACK Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from University of Toronto https://archive.org/details/lawreligionpubli2006nede Course Pack Table of Contents - Fall 2007 Week 1 - Introduction Party Leaders’ responses Hand¬ out Week 2 - Religion & Public Policies: Conflicting Viewpoints Roger Hutchinson, “Towards ‘a pedagogy for allies of the oppressed’” 1 Roger Hutchinson, “Religion, Morality, and Law in Modem Society,” (basic typology regarding interactions among religion, morality and law.) 6 OPTIONAL: Roger Hutchinson, “Comparative Ethics and the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Debate,” 13 pgs 29 Week 3 - Nedelsky Jennifer Nedelsky, “Legislative Judgment and the Enlarged Mentality” 57 pgs 42 OPTIONAL: Jennifer Nedelsky, “Human Rights and Communities of Judgment,” pp.245-282 99 Week 4 - John Rawls John Rawls, “Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” pp. 131-180 120 Week 5 - Wolstertorff Nicholas Wolterstorff, “The Role of Religion in Decision and Discussion of Political Issues,” pp. 67-120, Religion in the Public Square by R.Audi and N. Wolterstorff 172 Week 6 - Religion and Reason Robert Audi, "Wolterstorff on Religion, Politics, and the Liberal State," pp. 121-144 200 Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition, Ch. 3, pp. 63-91, pp. 314-316 (notes) 213 Week 7 - Sunder Madhavi Sunder, “Piercing the Veil,” 26 pages 230 Week 8 - Muslim Family Law Tribunals in Canada Anver M. Emon, “Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic: Politics, Jurisprudence, and Multicultural Accommodation,” pgs 1-44 256 Week 9 - Suggestions re Economic Justice (solicited from the class) Week 10 - Same Sex Marriage Factum of Intervener re: The Interfaith Coalition on Marriage and Family, OCA, 31 pgs 300 Interfaith Coalition for Same-Sex Marriage, “Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights,” 18 February 2003, 10 pgs 334 Carl F. Stychin, “Essential Rights and Contested Identities: Sexual Orientation and Equality Rights Jurisprudence in Canada,” 8 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence: 49-66 345 Week 11 - Same Sex Marriage Judgments Minister of Home Affairs v. Fourie (S. African Constitutional Court 2005): http://concourt.law.wits.ac.za/summary.php7case id=l 3170 Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36 (BSSC 1998) 364 COMMENTARY on Chamberlain BCSC decision: Centre for Cultural Renewal, #25, "Court Misunderstands the Meaning of 'Secular,'": http://www.culturalrenewal.ca/lex/lex-25.htm Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36 (BSCA 2000): see 2000 CarswellBC 2009 80 B.C.L.R. (3d) 181, [2000] 10 W.W.R. 393, 191 D.L.R. (4th) 128, 143 B.C.A.C. 162, 235 W.A.C. 162, 26 Admin. L.R. (3d) 297, [2000] B.C.J. No. 1875, 10 W.W.R. 393, 2000 BCCA 519 COMMENTARY on Chamberlain BCCA decision: Centre for Cultural Renewal #40, "Court corrects erroneous understanding of the secular and respects parental rights,": http://www.culturalrenewal.ca/lex/lex-40.htm Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36 (SCC 2002) 378 Week 12 -Abortion Morgentaler v. The Queen (Summary of case & Wilson J.’s judgment) 20 pgs 440 The Anglican Church of Canada, “Abortion: An Issue for Conscience” (pp. 7, 15-20) 461 BC Civil Liberties Association, "Submission to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-43: An Act Respecting Abortion." 464 The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, "Abortion in Canada: A Brief to the Legislative Committee on Bill C-43." 467 Jean Porter, "Moral Reasoning, Authority, and Community in Veritatis splendor." 473