New from RGCS faculty member Jacob Levy at Liberty Fund : a reflection on the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. "When a doctrine becomes destructive of these ends." www.libertyfund.org/250th/when-a...

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social continues to think through problems she raised in her RGCS Lecture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ81...

RGCS alum Mary Jo MacDonald, BA '17, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mount Allison University! Professor MacDonald's research centers on early modern women’s political writings. www.maryjomacdonald.com

RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellows David Oh and Madison Albert are interviewed as part of this profile of the ten Valedictorians University-wide. reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgills-vale...

www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/memoria... Ran Hirschl, one of Canada's leading scholars of constitutionalism, has passed away.

New from former RGCS postdoc Michael Da Silva, now Lecturer at Southampton Law School, in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: "The epistemic condition on political authority" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was a dream come true to contribute to the latest episode of In Our Time, on the Levellers, with Clare Jackson and Ted Vallance. Have a listen!

RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellow Tim Gulliver has been selected for a Supreme Court of Canada clerkship! www.mcgill.ca/law/article/...

RGCS faculty member Yann Allard-Tremblay's book _Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory_ (Oxford) has been shortlisted for the Canadian Political Science Association's CB Macpherson Prize for the best book in political theory.

RGCS Student Writing Prize is awarded annually to an Arts undergraduate for the best piece of substantial academic writing on the values, institutions, and principles of a free society. This year's award goes to Madison Albert '26, "Wages for Housework and Family Abolitionism: An Unhappy Marriage?"

new from alum Emma Planinc, MA '12, now Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Political Science, University of Notre Dame, and recent RGCS Lecturer: "Wells and Human Rights," in Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole, eds, The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells, OUP 2026 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

New article from RGCS PhD student Samantha Puzzi (Political Science), in Memory Studies "Monumental Empowerment: The vandalism of public mnemonic objects" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Nominations by present and past RGCS Taylor Fellows supported the conferral of McGill's Dean of Students Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising to RGCS coordinator Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social .

New from PhD student Radheesh Ameresekere at the Harvard Journal of International Law: "The Deportation of Undocumented Patients Under International Law" journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/2026/03/...

INCREDIBLE NEWS from RGCS alum Jeanne Mayrand-Thibert BA '19 BCL/JD '23: She's one of the new cohort of Trudeau Foundation Scholars! See the group announcement at www.trudeaufoundation.ca/discover-the... and the discussion of Jeanne in particular at www.trudeaufoundation.ca/directory/je...

With the arrival of almost $9000 in matching funds, this year's fundraising campaign concludes, very successfully: a record number of donors, a record amount donated, our first time breaking $20,000 in a single year, to say nothing of $25,000.

www.lecre.umontreal.ca/en/event/col... Conference on trust and distrust this Wednesday, including RGCSers Natalie Stoljar, Daniel Weinstock, and David Oh

New podcast with postdoc alum @samuel-bagg.bsky.social Samuel Bagg, now Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina: "State Capture and the Meaning of Democracy" on the "Virtual Sentiments" podcast with Kristen Collins www.mercatus.org/hayekprogram...

New from RGCS MA alum/ PhD student @shalmarr.bsky.social Shal Marriott, at the Institute for Liberal Studies "Three Reasons You Should Read _The Theory of Moral Sentiments_" www.theils.ca/3-reasons-mo...

Papers that RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellows are presenting next week at the Annual Meeting of the New England Political Science Association in Burlington VT: www.newenglandpsa.org/2026prelimpr...

If you haven't already seen it, seems like a good day to watch last month's Lin Centre Annual Lecture by @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Kim Lane Scheppele, one of the leading experts on Hungarian constitutional backsliding under Orbán. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMk...

The video of Emma Planinc's RGCS Lecture "Regenerative Politics" is now available at youtu.be/AdA_I22Ozn8 in the series of RGCS Lectures at www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New from RGCS faculty member Will Roberts: "The Radical Horizon of the Domination Complaint" www.anclogan.ie/the-radical-...

Deadline this week! CFP Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars panels #polisky #poltheory @apsa.bsky.social @biapt.bsky.social @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

New by Jacob Levy, as part of a 250th anniversary of the Wealth of Nations symposium. Each entry is on one Book of the work; his is on Book V. '“Very difficult, perhaps altogether impossible”: Smith’s political science' oll.libertyfund.org/publications...

The video of @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Kim Lane Scheppele's Lin Centre Lecture has now been posted: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnMk...

www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20... Pls share & circulate to junior political theorists & scientists. CFP Political Theory In/And/As Political Science (PTPS) panels at the annual meeting of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society (PPE). Deadline April 10. #poliski #poltheory

New book coedited by former RGCS postdoc Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social now Assistant Professor of Political Science at U of South Carolina: Democracy and Competition: Rethinking the Forms, Purposes, and Values of Competition in Democracy www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Calendar of upcoming RGCS and RGCS-relevant or -adjacent events in the next ~10 weeks www.instagram.com/p/DWJyqi5lcYN/ or www.facebook.com/RGCSMcGill/p...

The Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series presents Emma Planinc Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and Political Science, University of Notre Dame RGCS alum, McGill MA '12 "Regenerative Politics" Thursday, April 2, 2026 4:30-6 pm, reception to follow Thomson House Ballroom

TODAY!

New from RGCS PhD student Shirley Cai, in The Diplomat: "Why China’s OpenClaw Mania Is More Than Just a Tech Craze." thediplomat.com/2026/03/why-...

2026 Lin Centre Annual Lecture Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social Rockefeller Professor of Sociology & International Affairs Director of the Program in Law & Normative Thinking Princeton "Counter-Constitutions: On Being the Object of a Coup" 4:30-6:00 pm, March 19 @mcgillarts.bsky.social

This symposium on Inés Valdez' book _Democracy and Empire_ in CRISPP features contributions by RGCS faculty members Catherine Lu and Will Roberts, with one by Yves Winter appearing soon, and by former RGCS postdoc William Tilleczek. www.tandfonline.com/action/showA...

RGCS faculty member @abizadeh.bsky.social Arash Abizadeh has worked on questions arising in the corpus of Jürgen Habermas. See "On the philosophy/rhetoric binaries: Or, is Habermasian discourse motivationally impotent?," Phil & Soc Criticism 1/ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

2026 CFP, Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars panels www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

Meet the volunteers: (scroll to the bottom of the page) These students and alums are reaching out to *other* students and alums to raise funds for the RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship on #mcgill24 . crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/ch...

If you're on Instagram, stop by and see the student ambassadors for the RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship posting about their experiences in it. www.instagram.com/rgcs.mcgill/

Most-viewed videos in the RGCS Lecture Series Helena Rosenblatt Gerald Gaus Donald Horowitz Turkuler Isiksel Part of the McGill RGCS Charles Taylor Student Fellowship is dinner and conversation with scholars like these when they give their lectures. #McGill24 crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/ch...

Today is #McGill24 . Please make a gift to hep permanently endow McGill's Research Group on Constitutional Studies Charles Taylor Student Fellowship. Gifts are matched up to 1:1 , up to $1000. 1/ crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/ch...

Tom Ginsburg's @tomginsburg.bsky.social RGCS Lecture, "Governing Across Time: Transitional Provisions in Constitutions," is now available on the Lin Centre's YouTube channel— the 42nd RGCS Lecture posted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=roay...

Call for Chapters 📢 👉For an edited volume on Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, to be published online first in Works of Philosophy and Their Reception. ℹ️More details: philevents.org/event/show/1... 📕Read from the volume: www.degruyterbrill.com/database/wpr... #PhilSky #CfP

New review published, in Political Theory, by Jean-Paul Gagnon, of _Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnerability and Care of the Earth_ by former RGCS postdoc Didier Zúñiga , now Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta. doi.org/10.1177/0090...

Biggest event of the year, coming up in a month: @kimlanelaw.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/lin-centre/c... 2026 Lin Centre Annual Lecture Kim Lane Scheppele Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Sociology & International Affairs Princeton University Counter-Constitutions: On Being the Object of a Coup

New from RGCS faculty member @jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob Levy: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science

TODAY: @tomginsburg.bsky.social at @mcgillumedia.bsky.social @mcgillarts.bsky.social

The overview of the recommendations from the Advisory Panel on Campus Expression's "Final report on campus expression at McGill University," a panel that included RGCS PhD student Rhona Goodarzi (Law) and RGCS faculty member Catherine Lu (Political Science). www.mcgill.ca/president/si...

RGCS PhD student Rhona Goodarzi (Law) and RGCS faculty member Catherine Lu (Political Science) were members of McGill's Advisory Panel on Campus Expression whose valuable and important final report was issued last week. The Report is available here: www.mcgill.ca/president/si...

New from RGCS alum Mary Jo MacDonald BA '17, in Polity: "Equality, Modernity, and Inclusion in Judith Drake’s _Essay in Defence of the Female Sex_" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

RGCS faculty member Christoper Manfredi is reaching the end of his ten years as Provost/ Vice-Principal* (Academic). He looks back on the decade here: reporter.mcgill.ca/christopher-... *The title changed from "Vice-Principal" to "Vice-President" in 2023.