Eric Adams

Eric Adams is a University of Alberta law professor specializing in the constitutional history of Canada, including a focus on the internment and dispossession of Japanese Canadians. His recent publications in the area include:

• “Nothwithstanding History: the Rights-Protecting Purposes of Section 33 of the Charter” (2022) 25:2 Review of Constitutional Studies 121 (with Erin Bower)
• “Constitutional Wrongs: the Wartime Constitution and Japanese Canadians” in Barry Wright, Susan Binnie & Eric Tucker eds, Canadian State Trials, Volume V: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939-1990 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022) 44 (with Jordan Stanger-Ross)