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Eric M. Adams

@ericadams99.bsky.social

Constitutional scholar, legal historian, and lawyer. Professor, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law.

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Thrilled that my book with Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution, has been named one of the 100 best books of 2025.

Order here: www.ubcpress.ca/challenging-...

09.12.2025 03:49 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War

Beyond thrilled for this rave review from @johnibbitson.bsky.social in the @theglobeandmail.com for our book, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Now available @ubcpress.bsky.social and fine bookstores.

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

14.11.2025 20:14 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Book launch of “Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution.”

Book launch of “Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution.”

If you’re in the national capital region tonight, join us for the book launch of “Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution” by Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross.

www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

12.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Launch of the book “Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution” by Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross.

Launch of the book “Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution” by Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross.

On November 12, join us in Ottawa for the launch of “Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution” by Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, an illuminating book on rights, democracy and Canadian history.

Reserve your spot:
www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

05.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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BC Book Recommendations From the People Who Make Them Get to know the work of our BC Independent publishers through this curated guide of top picks from the bookmakers themselves.

www.readlocalbc.ca/2025/10/22/i...

23.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨EVENT REMINDER🚨

A reminder that next week is our book launch for "Challenging Exile" with co-author @ericadams99.bsky.social! Join us for discussions of this compelling legal-historical analysis of the internment of Japanese Canadians after WWII.

Register here: bit.ly/3KLktsp

14.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tickets are still available for our book launch for "Challenging Exile" with co-author @ericadams99.bsky.social. Join us on October 21 as we discuss Profs Adams and Stanger-Ross' legal-historical analysis of the internment/displacement of Japanese Canadians after WWII. Register here: bit.ly/3KLktsp

07.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We're excited to announce that we'll be hosting a book launch for "Challenging Exile," a new legal-historical analysis by Eric Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross on the internment/displacement of Japanese Canadians after WWII. To register, go here: www.constitutionalstudies.ca/events/book-...

25.09.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Historic decision on the notwithstanding clause from the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

"The Charter is not written in disappearing ink that comes and goes every five years according to whether Parliament or a legislature has invoked s. 33."

-CJ Leurer, Saskatchewan v UR Pride, 2025 SKCA 74

11.08.2025 17:10 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 4
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Pleased to have a chapter on the early professional life of Justice Abella in this open access collection. Congratulations to the editors on this important contribution to judicial biography in Canada.

07.05.2025 20:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Challenging Exile Challenging Exile - Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution; Challenging Exile delves into the origins, experience, and aftermath of a shameful moment in Canada’s past: the government’s attemp...

Now available for pre-order, my forthcoming book with Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution, a shocking story of Canada's attempt to exile over 10,000 Japanese Canadians after the Second World War ended.

www.ubcpress.ca/challenging-...

28.03.2025 17:20 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

I can confirm he has no known campaign office or website.

17.01.2025 17:23 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
View of The Constitutionality of Prorogation

You may hear a lot about prorogation in the coming days. My refresher here: journals.library.ualberta.ca/constitution...

21.12.2024 15:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But I had just gotten very used to NEVER tweeting.

14.11.2024 23:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: The spirit of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws seems to be spreading in Alberta Worryingly, Danielle Smith’s government appears set to deem a broad swath of subjects as ‘sensitive’ across Alberta’s kindergarten-to-grade-12 curriculum

“Don’t say gay, unless a parent signs a consent form” is not an educational approach worthy of this century.

My latest op-ed for @theglobeandmail.com

09.02.2024 16:34 — 👍 40    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion: Let's not tie government's hands in the next crisis Governing during emergencies requires balancing rights, not tying hands

"The harms of COVID were many. Let’s not add preventing the government from effectively responding to the next crisis to the list."

My op-ed on the wrong approach at the base of Preston Manning's COVID Panel.

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

20.11.2023 20:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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