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Book SynopsisViscount Richard Burdon Haldane was a philosopher, lawyer, British MP, and member of the British Cabinet during the First World War. He is best known to Canadians as a judge of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (Canada''s highest court of appeal until 1949), in which role he was extremely influential in altering the constitutional relations between the federal parliament and the provincial legislatures.
Chafing under the British North America Act of 1867, which provided for a strong central government, the provincial governments appealed to the Judicial Committee and were successful in gaining greater provincial legislative autonomy through the constitutional interpretations of the law lords. In Viscount Haldane, Frederick Vaughan concentrates on Haldane''s role in these rulings, arguing that his jurisprudence was shaped by his formal study of German philosophy, especially that of G.W.F. Hegel. Vaughan''s analysis of Haldane''s legal philosophy and its impac
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'Viscount Haldane is a meticulous examination of Haldane's role in reworking Canadian federalism and of Hagel's influence on Haldane's jurisprudence... A thought-provoking biography.' -- Stephen Azzi The Historian, vol 74:03:2012
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Gottingen 1974 * Home and School for the Mind * The University of Edinburgh and the Seeds of German Philosophy * The Practice of Law and the Bar of London * From the Inns of Court to the War Office. * Haldane in the School of the Master * Haldane in the Shadow of Lord Watson * Haldane and the Reign of Sittlichkeit * In the High Court of Hegel * The State and the Reign of Relativity. * The Supreme Tribunal of the Empire. * Recollections and Last Days Postscript: The Hadlane Legacy and the Modern Court Bibliography
