About

I am a Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. I am the inaugural program chair for its new and fast expanding Justice and Legal Studies program.  I completed my PhD in the Department of Political Science at the the University of Calgary. I previously taught at the School of Public Policy in its MPP program. I was a Frances Spratt Graduate Fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities a holder of a Killam Memorial Scholarship.

My research and teaching interests include judicial politics, bills of rights, constitutional theory, and Canadian political institutions. I am engaged in several research projects. The first project concerns how the Supreme Court of Canada defines the role of other political institutions through its jurisprudence. The second concerns the federal Conservative and Liberal parties’ relationships to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the courts, and the Constitution. My final project concerns integrating Canadian public law within the literature of political and legal constitutionalism.