Sujit Choudhry, winner of Trudeau Foundation Fellowship, is profiled in the Globe and Mail
September 28, 2010
Professor Sujit Choudhry, a law professor at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a $225,000 Trudeau Foundation Fellowship. The prize recognizes the work he’s done in post-conflict constitutional law around the world. In Canada, however, Mr. Choudhry is better known for being somewhat of a thorn in the side of government, scoring repeated courtroom […]
Sylvia Bashevkin sees setbacks for women’s rights under the Conservative government
September 22, 2010
Speaking in 1987, Margaret Thatcher offered the following governance tip to her fellow leaders: “To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” Last spring, Stephen Harper, unrolling his G-8 maternal health proposal, heeded her advice. The initiative would save “the lives of […]
Two faculty members placed on first annual "Zoomer list"
September 17, 2010
Dr Ron Deibert and Dr James Orbinski named two of Canada’s Top 45 Over 45 by Zoomer Magazine. The article, which is not available online, is part of Zoomer’s September 20th issue.
James Orbinski named as a Transformational Canadian by the Globe and Mail
September 17, 2010
The Globe and Mail’s list of 25 Transformational Canadians includes Dr James Orbinski, who is an associate professor of medicine, teaches in the Department of Political Science and is a fellow at the Munk School for Global Affairs. His profile is available here at globeandmail.com.
Janice Stein comments that critical thinking is crucial, but no panacea
September 7, 2010
The great truth of democracy, at least when it’s working well, isn’t about the levels of turnout at the polling stations or the noise from the opposition benches when someone who calls himself the leader gets carried away with his own sense of power. What’s much more fundamental to the 2,500-year-old experiment of people trying […]
Professor Ed Schatz has been given the Giovanni Sartori Book Award
September 4, 2010
The Giovanni Sartori Book Award honors Giovanni Sartori’s work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. The award is intended to encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per […]
Jennifer Wallner wins Deil Wright Best Paper Award
September 4, 2010
The Deil Wright Best Paper Award is presented to the author of the best paper on federalism and intergovernmental relations. Dr. Wallner won for her paper “Does Diversity Always Lead to Decentralization and Difference?”. She recieved her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science in 2009. She is now an Assistant Professor at the University […]
Laying down the law on teaching: Ran Hirschl
September 2, 2010
Like a well-ordered society that functions effectively and productively, Ran Hirschl’s classroom is one built on a system of laws and tenets that provide the foundation for his approach to teaching. The ultimate goal of this classroom constitution is to transform students at all levels into true cosmopolitan citizens of the world, and encourage them […]
Neil Nevitte describes how national pride and nationlism have diverged
August 31, 2010
What does Feist think about potash? In other countries, where a sense of economic sovereignty still gets people going, this would not be a completely ironic kind of question. We know, for example, that Björk cares passionately about resisting the foreign takeover of one of Iceland’s geothermal power companies. The outspoken singer-songwriter has called for […]
Canadians get the Question Period they deserve, writes Nelson Wiseman in the Globe and Mail
August 30, 2010
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a parliamentary delegation from one of the newly independent Baltic states visited Ottawa to observe Canada’s democratic institutions in action. As is common for such groups, they were ushered into Question Period, Parliament’s most extensively covered activity. Shocked at the spectacle, they cringed. Is this how political debate […]