Description: Canadian municipalities oversee the country's most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, and the constitution can be reimagined to resolve the mismatch between powers and responsibilities.
Brief description: Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, professor of government, and director of constitutional studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Review Quotes: "Written by a diverse group of acknowledged, experienced experts, Cities and the Constitution advances the emerging Canadian and international literature on the constitutional (in the legal and political senses of that term) status of cities." Peter Oliver, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution