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“A Complex Piece of Writing”
From: Sovereignty, Restraint, and Guidance
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Chapter 7 examines the judicial treatment of section 163(8) of the Criminal Code, which defines “obscenity.” We will see that the history of the Supreme Court’s approach to this provision has veered wildly over the years as it has attempted to give stable and coherent content to it.
Contributors
Michael Plaxton
Michael Plaxton is a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. He teaches and writes about criminal law, evidence, philosophy of law, statutory interpretation, and constitutional theory. He is the author of Implied Consent & Sexual Assault: Intimate Relationships, Autonomy, and Voice (McGill-Queen’s, 2015).
