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Bruce B. Ryder

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Professor Ryder joined Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty in 1987. His research and publications focus on a range of contemporary constitutional issues, including those related to federalism, equality rights, freedom of expression, Aboriginal rights, and Quebec secession. He has also published articles that explore the historical evolution of constitutional principles and is currently researching the history of book censorship in Canada.

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Professor Ryder joined Osgoode Hall Law School’s faculty in 1987. His research and publications focus on a range of contemporary constitutional issues, including those related to federalism, equality rights, freedom of expression, Aboriginal rights, and Quebec secession. He has also published articles that explore the historical evolution of constitutional principles and is currently researching the history of book censorship in Canada.

Present	Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University
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Canadian Constitutional Law, Fourth Edition (Patrick Macklem, Carol Rogerson, Joel Bakan, et al.) Books (2010)

In its 4th edition, Canadian Constitutional Law continues to offer a truly national perspective — drawing on an editorial team that is rich with regional, linguistic, and scholarly diversity. This edition remains true to the ...

Articles (26)

Undercompensating for Discrimination: An Empirical Study of General Damages Awards Issued by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, 2000-2015 (Audra Ranalli and Bruce Ryder) Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper Series (2017)

The authors present the results of a comprehensive quantitative analysis of general damages awards issued by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario from 2000 to 2015. From the results, the authors argue that general damages ...

The Strange Double Life of Canadian Equality Rights (Bruce Ryder) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2013)

The paper examines the ways the tests for discrimination expounded in the statutory and constitutional contexts have coincided in Canadian law since Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia. Based on statistical evidence that there ...

Equal Autonomy in Canadian Federalism: The Continuing Search for Balance in the Interpretation of the Division of Powers (Bruce Ryder) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2011)

Implicit in the federal principle is the need to give equal respect to provincial and federal claims to autonomy within their respective spheres of exclusive jurisdiction. Two features of the Supreme Court of Canada’s jurisprudence ...

Managing Charter Equality Rights: The Supreme Court of Canada’s Disposition of Leave to Appeal Applications in Section 15 Cases, 1989-2010 (Bruce Ryder and Taufiq Hashmani) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2010)

Through a study of the Court’s disposition of 177 leave to appeal applications in section 15 cases since 1989, the authors examine the role of the Supreme Court of Canada in guiding the development of ...

In Memoriam: Honourable Gerald Eric Le Dain, 1924-2007 (Patrick J. Monahan, Harry W. Arthurs and Bruce B. Ryder) Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2007)

The End of Umpire?: Federalism and Judicial Restraint (Bruce Ryder) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2006)

State Neutrality and Freedom of Conscience and Religion (Bruce Ryder) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2005)

We are still in the early stages of working out what it means for the Canadian state to be both officially secular and supportive of religious pluralism. In this period of uneasy transition, the respective ...

What’s Law Good For?: An Empirical Overview of Charter Equality Rights Decisions (Bruce Ryder, Cidalia C. Faria and Emily Lawrence) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2004)

The authors present an empirical review of courts’ dispositions of legal challenges to government laws or policies based on alleged violations of the equality rights in section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ...

The Harms of Child Pornography Law (Bruce Ryder) UBC Law Review. Volume 36, Number 1 (2003), p. 101-135. (2003)

The author challenges the assumption that the expansion of child pornography offenses can lead only to a decrease in harm to children and to society. He argues that Canadian child pornography law is incoherent. In ...

The Little Sisters Case, Administrative Censorship, and Obscenity Law (Bruce Ryder) Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2001)

The Past and Future of Canadian Generalist Law Journals (Bruce Ryder) Alberta Law Review. Volume 39, Number 3 (2001), p. 625-639. (2001)

The author reviews the history and evolution of Canadian university-based generalist journals. The growth in the number of these journals grew steadily from the late 1940s to the early 1970s, and then stopped abruptly. The ...

Unavoidable Judicial Power and Inevitable Charter Controversy (Bruce Ryder) The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference (2001)

What is Marriage-Like Like? The Irrelevance of Conjugality (Brenda Cossman and Bruce Ryder) Canadian Journal of Family Law. Volume 18, Number 2 (2001), p. 269-326. (2001)

While the notion of conjugal or marriage-like has become legally ubiquitous in the regulation of non-marital cohabitation in Canada, its meaning remains elusive. A review of the case law and of spousal definitions in income ...

M v. H: Time to Clean Up Your Acts (Brenda Cossman and Bruce Ryder) Constitutional Forum. Volume 10, Number 3 (1999), p. 59-64. (1999)

In the 1990s, the Supreme Court of Canada twice found ways to avoid dealing with the implications of anti-discrimination law for the rights of gay and lesbian couples. In Mossop, a majority of the Court ...

A Court in Need and a Friend Indeed: An Analysis of the Arguments of the Amicus Curiae in the Quebec Secession Reference (Bruce Ryder) Constitutional Forum. Volume 10, Number 1 (1998), p. 9-13. (1998)

Following the narrow vote against sovereignty in the 1995 Quebec referendum, the federal government referred three questions on the legality of unilateral secession to the Supreme Court of Canada for its opinion. The Quebec government ...

Customs Censorship and the Charter: The Little Sisters Case (Brenda Cossman and Bruce Ryder) Constitutional Forum. Volume 7, Number 4 (1996), p. 103-112. (1996)

Developments in Constitutional Law: The 1994-95 Term (David Schneiderman, Hester Lessard, Bruce Ryder, et al.) Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 7, pp. 81-156 (1996)

This essay explores the apparent triumph of the individual of classical liberalism in Supreme Court decision making. Our analysis examines the particular way in which this political imagery of the individual interacts with judicial assumptions ...

Developments in Constitutional Law: The 1994-95 Term (Hester Lessard, Bruce Ryder, David Schneiderman, et al.) Supreme Court Law Review (1996)

This essay explores the apparent triumph of the individual of classical liberalism in Supreme Court decision making. Our analysis examines the particular way in which this political imagery of the individual interacts with judicial assumptions ...

Egan v. Canada: Equality Deferred, Again (Bruce Ryder) Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal. Volume 4 (1996), p. 101-110. (1996)

Developments in Constitutional Law: The 1993-94 Term (Joel Bakan, Bruce Ryder, David Schneiderman, et al.) Supreme Court Law Review (2d) (1995)

This paper seeks to draw out four different, and often conflicting, themes that inform the Supreme Court of Canada's constitutional decision making. Each theme expresses a conception of the Canadian state, and taken together they ...

Aboriginal Rights and Delgamuukw v. the Queen (Bruce Ryder) Constitutional Forum. Volume 5, Number 2 (1994), p. 43-48. (1994)

On the long and tortuous path to justice for the First Nations of Canada, the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen' is likely to become one of the most important landmarks. Whether the outcome of ...

Family Status, Sexuality and "The Province of the Judiciary": The Implications of Mossop v. A.-G. Canada (Bruce Ryder) Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice. Volume 13 (1993), p. 3-38. (1993)

The Supreme Court decision in Mossop amounts to a postponement of, rather than a precedent on, the issue of whether the exclusion of gay and lesbian families from employment benefits is a violation of current ...

Racism and the Constitution: The Constitutional Fate of British Columbia Anti-Asian Immigration Legislation, 1884-1909 (Bruce Ryder) Osgoode Hall Law Journal (1991)

The author explores the values and forces that influenced judicial and federal cabinet decisions regarding the constitutional validity of over one hundred BC statutes discriminating against persons of the Japanese or Chinese race passed between ...

Straight Talk: Male Heterosexual Privilege (Bruce Ryder) Queen's Law Journal. Volume 16, Number 2 (1991), p. 287-312. (1991)