Introduction: Complex Legacies: The Promise, Challenges, and Impact of the Constitution Act, 1982 / Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister Part 1: Institutional Relationships 1 The Political Purposes of the Charter: Four Decades Later / Mark S. Harding 2 Revisiting Judicial Activism / Emmett Macfarlane 3 Revisiting the Charter Centralization Thesis / Gerald Baier 4 Autochthony and Influence: The Charter's Place in Transnational Constitutional Discourse / Mark Tushnet 5 It Works in Practice, but Does It Work in Theory? Accepting the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a National Symbol / Andrew McDougall 6 Charter Talk: How Canadian Media Cover Rights and Politics / Erin Crandall, Andrea Lawlor, and Kate Puddister 7 Notwithstanding the Media: Section 33 of the Charter after Toronto v Ontario / Dave Snow and Eleni Nicolaides Part 2: Charter Rights 8 Policing Partisan Self-Interest? The Charter and Election Law in Canada / Tamara A. Small 9 The Most Important Charter Right? The Rise and Future of Section 7 / Matthew Hennigar 10 Sex Work, Abjection, and the Constitution / Brenda Cossman 11 Carter Compliance: Litigating for Access to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada / Eleni Nicolaides 12 The Charter and the RCMP / Kent Roach 13 The Charter of Whites: Systemic Racism and Critical Race Equality in Canada / Joshua Sealy-Harrington 14 Canada's Sex Problem: Section 15 and Women's Rights / Kerri A. Froc 15 Quebec and the "Sign Law" Thirty Years after Ford and Devine: Ford Construit Solide / James B. Kelly 16 Language Rights and the Charter: Forging the Next Forty Years / Stéphanie Chouinard 17 The Provincial Courts of Appeal and Section 24(2) of the Charter / Lori Hausegger, Danielle McNabb, and Troy Riddell Part 3: Reconciliation 18 Canadians' Homeland Has Changed since Patriation Brought the Constitution Home / Peter H. Russell 19 Indigenous Rights and the Constitution Act, 1982: Forty Years On and Still Fishing for Rights / Jeremy Patzer and Kiera Ladner 20 Using the Master's Institutional Instruments to Dismantle the Master's Goal of Indigenous-Rights Certainty / Rebecca Major and Cynthia Stirbys 21 Beyond Consultation: A Research Agenda to Investigate Partnerships and Comanagement in Land Governance / Minh Do 22 Indigenous Sovereignty, Canadian Constitutionalism, and Citizens Plus: The Unended Quest of Canada's Original Hedgefox / Samuel V. LaSelva Part 4: Constitutional Change 23 The Invisible Transformation of Canada's Constitutional Amendment Rules / Richard Albert 24 Still Not Cheering: Understanding Quebec's Perspective on 1982 / Félix Mathieu and Dave Guénette 25 Cracks in the Foundation: The Crown and Canada's Constitutional Architecture / Philippe Lagassé 26 The Urban Gap / Ran Hirschl Index.