201. The Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Meaning of ”Constitutional Architecture” (with Professor Leonid Sirota)

Our host William Lundy is joined by Professor Leonid Sirota who is an Associate Professor of Law at Reading University in the UK. Professor Sirota is the founder of the Double Aspect Blog https://doubleaspect.blog/ and has written extensively on administrative and constitutional law issues. In this episode, Professor Sirota discusses the Supreme Court of Canada's 2014 Senate Reference decision, which he argues effectively incorporated certain constitutional conventions into constitutional law.

Listeners interested in further reading: Leonid Sirota, "Immuring Dicey's Ghost: The Senate Reform Reference and Constitutional Conventions", Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2020