Mark Mancini Lecture: Charter Values and the Allure of the Unwritten

Lecture Room: LC 105 (U of A Law Centre)

Lecture Description: The Supreme Court of Canada's Charter values jurisprudence in administrative law is controversial, in part because it relies on unwritten constitutional values to impose distinct obligations on administrative officials, even beyond the express terms of the Charter. In this lecture, Professor Mancini suggests that the use of Charter values, unless properly framed, can upset the textual structure of the Charter. He advances a role for the use of unwritten norms in the law of judicial review that respects this most basic restraint on judicial interpretation.