Acknowledgments

• Author: Kent Roach
• Pages: 345-346

Acknowledgments

345

I

received much help

in

writing this book, with

a

number

of

colleagues

and

friends talking

me

through

two

years

of

research

and

writing.

John

Borrows,

Sujit

Choudhry,

David Dyzenhaus,

Bill

Kaplan, Jonathan

Rudin,

Robert Sharpe, John

Whyte,

and an

anonymous reviewer

all

made excellent suggestions that,

in

their

own

distinct ways, helped

improve

this

book. Jason Murphy

and

Irish

McMahon,

now

both

in

their

third year

at the

University

of

Toronto

Faculty

of

Law, provided

excellent research assistance.

The

students

who

took

my

seminar

in the

fall

of

2000

on the

Role

of

Courts

in a

Democracy made helpful contri-

butions

to my

thinking about

these

topics.

Bill

Kaplan

and

Jeff

Miller

of

Irwin

Law

encouraged

the

idea

for

this book

and

remained enthusiastic

and

supportive throughout

its

writing. Rosemary Shipton provided

expert editing that much improved

the

book.

An

earlier version

of

chap-

ters

13

and 14

appeared

in

the

Canadian

Bar

Review,

and an

earlier ver-

sion

of

chapter

11

appeared

in the

Supreme

Court

Law

Review.

Ron

Daniels,

the

dean

of the

University

of

Toronto's

Faculty

of

Law, provid-

ed

essential support that allowed

the

book

to be

written.

The

financial

assistance

of the

Wright

Legal

Foundation

is

gratefully acknowledged.

As

with

all

things,

my

family's support

was a

blessing.

My

parents,

aunts,

and

in-laws

all

provided much needed help.

My

wife,

Jan

Cox,

understood

my

sometimes obsessive need

to

write this book

and

pro-

vided perspective whether things were going well

or

not.

I am

grateful

that

my

daughters, Erin

and

Carey, take

an

interest

in

their father's

work,

including several interesting

and

helpful

suggestions

for the

jack-

et

design.

This book

reflects

in

many ways

the

influence

of a

number

of

extraordinary teachers

I

have

had

over

the

years.

I

continue

to

learn

from

family, friends, colleagues,

and

students,

but owe a

special debt

to

a

number

of

teachers who,

in

ways they

may not

realize, have helped

to

shape what appears

on

these pages.

Kent

Hamilton

and

Kenneth

McNaught,

both deceased,

first

taught

me the

importance

of

history

and

its

relevance

to the

law,

and

Marty Friedland

and

Dick

Risk

continue

to

teach

me

about

the

wisdom

of

history. Peter Russell

and the

late John

Edwards

taught

me to

look

at the law

through

the

eyes

of a

student

of

politics. Alan Cairns taught

me

much about

the

politics

of

rights

and the

changes

the

Charier

was

making

to

Canada

in an

extraordinary summer