Thread: *Four* new and recent articles in Publius: The Journal of Federalism by people in the extended RGCS community. 1/

New by alum Patrick Baud (BCL/ LLB '18), coauthored with Philippe Lagassé (who gave an RGCS Lecture in 2015): "Executive Power and Crown Prerogative in Canada," in Samuel White and Matthew Stubbs, eds., Executive Power and the Royal Prerogative in the Commonwealth, Lexis-Nexis 2025

New by alum Allison Render, LLB/ BCL '15, in The Advocate, the magazine of the Vancouver Bar Association "Take Me To The River: A Lawyer Goes Off the Grid in the Canadian North" (Part 1; stay tuned for more!) Starts on p 61 of the magazine-reading platform issuu.com/advocatemaga...

The new issue of Perspectives on Politics features a review exchange between Geneviève Rousselière and RGCS Student Fellowship alum Emma Planinc (MA '11), Assistant Professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies, Notre Dame, about their respective books. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Arts Internship Office @mcgillarts.bsky.social spotlight on Taylor Fellow Madi Albert www.mcgill.ca/arts-interns...

PhD alum Nicholas Dunn (Philosophy, 2020), now Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge, has a new op-ed in the Calgary Herald: "When compassion becomes discrimination: The ethics of MAID for mental illness" calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Today RGCS faculty member Daniel Weinstock was formally inducted into the Order of Canada! Story from when the selection was first announced: www.mcgill.ca/law/channels...

newbooksnetwork.com/land-and-the... New Books Network podcast with RGCS alum Éléna Choquette, BA '11, Professor of Social Sciences, Université du Québec en Outaouais, discussing her _Land and the Liberal Project: Canada’s Violent Expansion_ Hosted by Miranda Melcher

New article by Student Fellowship alum Michael Church Carson BA '19 MMA '22: "The impact of legislation on online toxic content" Michael Church Carson, Danuvasin Charoen, Warut Khern-am-nuai, and Takumi Shimizu Online first at _Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance_ doi.org/10.1108/DPRG...

Student fellowship alum Eric Schildroth, MA '17, has defended his dissertation for the Ph.D. in political science at Toronto: "Ethical pluralism and public office: The ethics of political and administrative officials in liberal democracies," advised by Andrew Sabl. Congratulations, Dr. Schildroth!

Alum Jordan David Thomas Walters, Ph.D. in Philosophy '25, has accepted a tenure-track job offer to become Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, after his Oxford postdoc ends in July 2027. Congratulations! jdtwalters.weebly.com

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Article by RGCS Taylor Fellow Dailin Huang and coauthors, in Cureus Journal Of Business and Economics: "Exploring the Relationship of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Scores on Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis" doi.org/10.7759/s444...

Video now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjIv... Daniel Lee Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Excessive Beneficence: Regulating Generosity in the Modern Natural Law School of Hugo Grotius RGCS Lecture, November 20 2025

Book launch next week for Disjunctures: Indigenous Redirections in Political Theory (OUP 2025) by Yann Allard-Tremblay. Wednesday December 3, 5-7 pm, Paragraphe

Call for applications: The Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en philosophie politique de Montréal (GRIPP) invites applications for its 2026 manuscript workshop award.

McGill students with interests in the history of political thought/ intellectual history/ international law/ political philosophy. Don't miss this event on Thursday! A student who registers here and attends will win a copy of Lee's book The Right of Sovereignty www.facebook.com/events/25000...

RGCS Lectures by PPE speakers S Ingham, The Democrat’s Dilemma K Elliott, Democracy for Busy People K Vallier, From Counter-Reformation to Counter-Revolution R Muldoon, Harnessing Diversity, Dynamism, & Discovery M Schwartzberg, Constitutionalism & Local Knowledge www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Important new piece from RGCS postdoc alum Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social , now Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina:

Register here to attend Daniel Lee's upcoming RGCS Lecture for a chance to win a copy of his book _The Right of Sovereignty_ www.facebook.com/events/25000...

"From Democratic Resilience to Recession" The conference begins on Monday! Keynote addresses by Steven Levitsky, Ashley Jardina, and Robert Mickey. Tuesday is sold out, but there are still a few registration spots available for Monday: alumni.mcgill.ca/aoc/events-t...

Register here to attend Daniel Lee's upcoming RGCS Lecture for a chance to win a copy of his book _The Right of Sovereignty_ www.facebook.com/events/25000...

Lin Centre Director and RGCS faculty member @catherinelu.bsky.social Catherine Lu discusses the Centre as well as her own ideas on "Freedom and justice in a polarized world." youtu.be/Lso9Ew_k5Vg?...

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www.mcgill.ca/law/channels... Congratulations to Vrinda Narain!

The Lin Centre was established 10 years ago. reporter.mcgill.ca/3-4-million-...

Tristan Hughes, Student Fellowship alum BA '17, now a postdoc at UBC, has a new article in the European Journal of Political Theory: "The political theory of techno-colonialism" doi.org/10.1177/1474...

New by Student Fellowship alum Devon Cass (BA '12), now Junior Researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in the European Journal of Political Theory: "Examining the Republican dilemma," part of a symposium on Lars Moen's _The Republican Dilemma_ doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Symposium on RGCS faculty member Aaron Mills' article, "First Nations’ Citizenship and Kinship Compared: Belonging’s Stake in Legality”, at the American Society for Comparative Law blog. By Matthew L.M. Fletcher, James Whitman, and Will Kymlicka, and a reply from Mills. ascl.org/blog/

New from former RGCS postdoc Michael Da Silva, now Lecturer at Southampton Law School, in Publius: "The Epistemic Case for Federalism: A Framework and Critical Analysis" doi.org/10.1093/publ...

Congratulations to today's RGCS graduates, Camille Battista and Julia Morelli, both receiving their MA in Political Science!

www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n... 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”

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.

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" doi.org/10.1017/S000...

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

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

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

An essay on the Anishinaabe Law Circle Learning Course offered by RGCS faculty member Aaron Mills www.mcgill.ca/law/article/...

New from MA/ PhD alum @rygriff.bsky.social 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 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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

#APSA2025 Sunday 8 am panels!

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. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Some of today's #APSA2025 panels with RGCS students or alums presenting papers. See the whole schedule at www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...

RGCS students and alumni presenting at #APSA2025 today!

FINAL UPDATED VERSION APSA 2025 RGCS program www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/files/r...

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" heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 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

New podcast: an extended discussion between @polphilpod.bsky.social and RGCS alum @aleccrisman.bsky.social (Ph.D. Political Science 2025)! bsky.app/profile/polp...