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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University
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McGill University Research Group on Constitutional Studies, a unit of the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom & Global Orders in the Ancient & Modern Worlds
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Aug 1
Applications are open for the 2025-26 RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship.

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RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship
CFA 2025-26 Fellowship The McGill Research Group on Constitutional Studies is accepting applications for its 2025-26 Charles Taylor Student Fellowship. RGCS brings together the study of political theo...
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 1d
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Yann Allard-Tremblay at University College Dublin: “A Great Ox Stands in Your Mind: Decolonial Caution about Epistemic Reparations and the Right to be Known”
Invited Speaker Series: Yann Allard-Tremblay
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Ryan Griffiths @rygriff.bsky.social · 6d
Cool! Welcome back, Geoff.

I swear, said it here days ago, I don’t have any settled positions on the notwithstanding clause but I do disagree with whatever is said to me about it. Geoff could say ‘I agree with Ryan,’ and I’d argue he doesn’t.
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 6d
This Friday!

Geoffrey Sigalet
(RGCS MA & postdoc alum)
Director of the UBC Research Group for Constitutional Law
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UBC (Okanagan)

Notwithstanding Judicial Review

October 3, 2025, 2:30 pm
Stephen Scott Seminar Room, Old Chancellor Day Hall 16
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 4d
New from RGCS alum Erin Crandall (PhD '13), Associate Professor of Politics at Acadia, and coauthors Andrea Lawlor and Shauna Hughey, in the Canadian Journal of Political Science

"Negative Spotlight: Event-Driven Effects on Support for the Canadian Supreme Court"

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Abstract Longstanding public support for the Supreme Court of Canada is well-documented and contributes to its public legitimacy. However, the sources of this support and how vulnerable it may be to political factors or negative coverage of events are not well understood. In February of 2023, Justice Russell Brown took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court following a conduct complaint under review by the Canadian Judicial Council. Justice Brown retired from the bench in June of that year, before the CJC concluded its investigation. In the intervening period, media coverage of the events that prompted the attention from the CJC thrust the Court into the spotlight. Using data from an original two-wave survey experiment (n = 1,222) from May and November of 2023, we investigate whether perspectives toward the circumstances surrounding Brown’s retirement hurt perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy. We find that the event did not disrupt support for the Court over time but also point to the ways in which opinion toward the Court changed pre- and post-resignation. These findings suggest that support toward Canada’s high court is at present largely stable even in the case of negative coverage of a high-profile event. However, we also acknowledge the potential vulnerabilities that negative coverage of the Court may present.
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 6d
This Friday!

Geoffrey Sigalet
(RGCS MA & postdoc alum)
Director of the UBC Research Group for Constitutional Law
Assistant Professor of Political Science, UBC (Okanagan)

Notwithstanding Judicial Review

October 3, 2025, 2:30 pm
Stephen Scott Seminar Room, Old Chancellor Day Hall 16
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 6d
Now available!

By former RGCS postdoc Xavier Boileau

Multiculturalisme, impérialisme et culture: Repenser les enjeux culturels canadiens à l’aune de l’histoire impériale

2025, Presses de l'Université du Québec

Book launch: Nov. 12, 6- 8 pm, Librairie Le Port de Tête, 269 ave. du Mont-Royal E
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Catherine Lu @catherinelu.bsky.social · 8d
Today and tomorrow! Learning about democracy and design from Black feminist perspectives, at the Lin Centre conference at McGill University. @mcgillarts.bsky.social @mcgillpolisci.bsky.social @gripp-montreal.bsky.social @lecre.bsky.social
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 7d
An essay on the Anishinaabe Law Circle Learning Course offered by RGCS faculty member Aaron Mills

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Reflections on the Anishinaabe Law Circle Learning Course
Professor Aaron Mills' two-week Anishinaabe Law Circle Learning course last summer challenged everything I thought I knew about law, starting with the most fundamental question: what is law? Together ...
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 11d
New from MA/ PhD alum
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Ryan Griffiths

"For the Credit of the Sect: Adam Smith's Political Theory of Association"

in _Freedom of Association, vol. 2: Applied_, Luke Sheehan and Kenneth McIntyre eds., Palgrave

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 12d
10th Anniversary of the Lin Centre Oct 30

Political theorist Jill Frank (McGill BA '83 BCL/ LLB '87) "Crafting Order: Plato and the Shape of Democracy," 1-2:30

Historian Steven Pincus, "The South Asian Origins of American Independence: Empire, Political Economy, and Partisan Politics," 3-4:30
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 23d
#APSA2025 Sunday 8 am panels!
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 25d
Whoops! Sorry. Can't edit old posts here but will do so on the other social media platforms.
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 25d
New book w chapters coauthored by RGCS alums Erin Crandall (PhD '13), (Acadia), and Kate Puddister (PhD '11), (Guelph).

Emmett Macfarlane @emmettmacfarlane.com , ed., Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond, University of Toronto Press, 2025.

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 25d
Some of today's #APSA2025 panels with RGCS students or alums presenting papers. See the whole schedule at

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 26d
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 28d
FINAL UPDATED VERSION

APSA 2025 RGCS program

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 26d
RGCS students and alumni presenting at #APSA2025 today!
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 28d
FINAL UPDATED VERSION

APSA 2025 RGCS program

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · 28d
Here you go; happy to help!

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Sep 6
New by RGCS faculty member Joshua Nichols: a wide-ranging review essay of RGCS emeritus member Charles Taylor's newest, in the Review of Constitutional Studies

"Resurrecting the Mighty Dead: Taylor's Cosmic Connections and the Possible Futures of Constitutionalism"

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Sep 3
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New from former RGCS postdoc Michael da Silva and RGCS faculty member Daniel Weinstock:

"Subsidiarity as a Normative Political Concept: Contemporary and Historical Reflections"

Journal of Social Philosophy
Subsidiarity as a Normative Political Concept: Contemporary and Historical Reflections
Click on the article title to read more.
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Aug 29
New podcast: an extended discussion between @polphilpod.bsky.social and RGCS alum @aleccrisman.bsky.social (Ph.D. Political Science 2025)!

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · Aug 29
new episode - an extended debate with @aleccrisman.bsky.social

is my vision of an aggressive, comprehensive liberalism viable?

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Should Liberalism Fight, or Retreat & Retrench? with Alex Crisman
A debate on what liberals can -or should- try to achieve in the age of Trump.
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Aug 26
Oct 30: Lin Centre 10th Anniversary Lectures: Jill Frank, (Cornell) & Steven Pincus (Chicago)

Nov 20: RGCS Lecture: Daniel Lee (Berkeley)

Feb 5: RGCS Lecture: Tom Ginsburg (Chicago)

March 19: Lin Centre Annual Lecture: Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton)

Apr 2: RGCS Lecture: Emma Planinc (Notre Dame)
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Aug 25
The blog of the American Philosophical Association interviews alum Jordan David Thomas Walters (Ph.D. Philosophy '25)

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APA Member Interview, Jordan Walters
Jordan Walters is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He recently received his PhD in Philosophy from McGill University.  Link to your Website:https:/...
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Aug 20
Coming soon from RGCS postdoc Xavier Boileau:

Multiculturalisme, impérialisme et culture: Repenser les enjeux culturels canadiens à l’aune de l’histoire impériale

published in the Politeia collection of Les Presses de l'Université du Québec

www.puq.ca/catalogue/li...
Multiculturalisme, impérialisme et culture
Le multiculturalisme est-il véritablement émancipateur, ou n’est-il qu’un miroir des rapports de pouvoir qu’il prétend dépasser ? À l’heure où les sociétés plurinationales cherchent à concilier dive...
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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Aug 20
Coming soon from RGCS postdoc Xavier Boileau:

Multiculturalisme, impérialisme et culture: Repenser les enjeux culturels canadiens à l’aune de l’histoire impériale

published in the Politeia collection of Les Presses de l'Université du Québec

www.puq.ca/catalogue/li...
Multiculturalisme, impérialisme et culture
Le multiculturalisme est-il véritablement émancipateur, ou n’est-il qu’un miroir des rapports de pouvoir qu’il prétend dépasser ? À l’heure où les sociétés plurinationales cherchent à concilier dive...
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · Aug 6
Nathan Goodman interviews political theorist Jacob Levy about the rule of law and its tensions with modern immigration enforcement.

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Jacob T. Levy on Tensions Between Immigration Control and the Rule of Law
On this episode, Nathan Goodman interviews political theorist Jacob Levy about the rule of law and its tensions with mo
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