Seeking the Court's Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power

this is an excellent book that completely fills a major and unfortunate lacuna in the academic literature. It is well organized, well written, thorough and balanced, and it winds up with recommendations for better squaring the practice with judicial independence concerns.

A first book, you say, and by a very junior author? It certainly doesn’t read that way—this is a polished work of mature scholarship. I recommend it highly.

Peter McCormick, Canadian Journal of Political Science

[Puddister] manages to provide a superb and comprehensive analysis of the development, evolution, and purposes of the reference power. Emmett Macfarlane, associate professor, University of Waterloo, The Review of Constitutional Studies

…Seeking the Court’s Advice will likely affect the way the power is exercised and conceived of by governments, interveners, and courts.

Jennah Khaled, JD, Osgoode Hall Law, Osgoode Hall Law Journal