Publications
Books - Authored:
2023. Legislating under the Charter: Parliament, Executive Power, and Rights. University of Toronto Press. (with Janet L. Hiebert and Anna Drake)
2021. Constitutional Pariah: Reference re Senate Reform and the Future of Parliament. UBC Press. [shortlisted for the 2022 Donald Smiley Prize, the Canadian Political Science Association's award for best book in Canadian politics]
2013. Governing from the Bench: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Judicial Role. UBC Press.
Books - Edited:
Accepted for Publication. Rights & Institutional Relationships: Parliamentary Systems of Rights Review in Canada and Beyond. University of Toronto Press.
2022. Constitutional Crossroads: Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change. UBC Press. (with Kate Puddister)
2022. Dilemmas of Free Expression. University of Toronto Press.
2018. Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution. University of Toronto Press.
2016. Constitutional Amendment in Canada. University of Toronto Press.
Journal Articles:
2023. "Provincial Constitutions, the Amending Formula, and Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada: An Analysis of Quebec's Bill 96." Osgoode Hall Law Journal.
2023. "Constitutional Retconning: History in Judicial Reasoning and Changes in Constitutional Meaning." Alberta Law Review. 61(1): 1-36.
2022. “Beyond the Hate Speech Law Debate: A Charter Values Approach to Freedom of Expression.” Review of Constitutional Studies. 27(1): 145-68.
2022. “The Overturning of Roe v. Wade: Are Abortion Rights in Canada Vulnerable?” Canadian Journal of Political Science. [published online on ‘FirstView’ May 13, 2022 DOI: 10.1017/S0008423922000452]
2022. "The Unconstitutionality of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments." Manitoba Law Journal. 45(1): 198-218.
2022. “The Place of Constitutional Conventions in the Constitutional Architecture, and in the Courts.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. 55(2): 322-41. [First published on 'FirstView' March 29, 2022]
2021. "Judicial Amendment of the Constitution." International Journal of Constitutional Law. 19(5): 1894-1924. [Published online first as an 'Advance article' December 12, 2021].
2021. “Equality Rights, Abortion Access, and New Brunswick’s Regulation 84-20.” University of New Brunswick Law Journal. 72: 302-24. (with Rachael Johnstone).
2021. "Protecting Privacy? Government and Parliamentary Responsiveness to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada." Canadian Public Administration 64(3): 437-57 (with Gwyneth Bergman)
2020. "Public Policy and Constitutional Rights in Times of Crisis." Canadian Journal of Political Science. 1-5. [published ‘online first’ DOI: 10.1017/S0008423920000256]
2018. "Leader and Representative: The Legacy of Beverley McLachlin Inside and Outside of Court." Supreme Court Law Review. 86: 41-60.
2018. "Positive Rights and Section 15 of the Charter: Addressing a Dilemma." National Journal of Constitutional Law. 38(1): 147-68.
2018. "'You Can't Always Get What You Want': Regime Politics, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Harper Government." Canadian Journal of Political Science. 51(1): 1-21. [Prepublished on FirstView https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423917000981]
2018. "The Impact and Role of Officers of Parliament: Canada's Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner." Canadian Public Administration. 61(1): 5-25. (with Gwyneth Bergman).
2017. "Dialogue, Remedies, and Positive Rights: Carter v. Canada as Microcosm for Past and Future Issues under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms." Ottawa Law Review 49(1): 107-29.
2016. "Constitutional Constraints on Electoral Reform in Canada: Why Parliament is (Mostly) Free to Implement a New Voting System." Supreme Court Law Review. 76: 399-417.
2015. "Unsteady Architecture: Ambiguity, the Senate Reference, and the Future of Constitutional Amendment in Canada." McGill Law Journal. 60(4): 883-903.
2015. "Public Policy, Rights, and Abortion Access in Canada." International Journal of Canadian Studies. 51: 97-120. (with Rachael Johnstone).
2014. "The Dilemma of Positive Rights: Access to Health Care and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms." Journal of Canadian Studies. 48(3): 49-78. [Note: this article was first published in August, 2015]
2013. "Dialogue or Compliance? Measuring Legislatures' Policy Responses to Court Rulings on Rights.” International Political Science Review. 34: 39-56. Prepublished on April 13, 2012. DOI: 10.1177/0192512111432565
2012. "Conceptual Precision and Parliamentary Systems of Rights: Disambiguating 'Dialogue'." Review of Constitutional Studies. 17(2): 73-100.
2012. “Failing to Walk the Rights Talk? Post-9/11 Security Policy and the Supreme Court of Canada.” Review of Constitutional Studies. 16(2): 31-52.
2010. “Consensus and Unanimity at the Supreme Court of Canada.” Supreme Court Law Review. 52: 379-410.
2009. “Administration at the Supreme Court of Canada: Challenges and Change in the Charter Era.” Canadian Public Administration. 52(1): 1-21.
2008. “Terms of Entitlement: Is there a Distinctly Canadian ‘Rights Talk’?” Canadian Journal of Political Science. 41(2): 303-28.
Peer-reviewed Book Chapters:
2022. “Revisiting Judicial Activism,” in Kate Puddister and Emmett Macfarlane, ed. Constitutional Crossroads: Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change (UBC Press).
2022. “Complex Legacies: The Promise, Challenges, and Impact of the Constitution Act, 1982,” in Kate Puddister and Emmett Macfarlane, ed. Constitutional Crossroads: Reflections on Charter Rights, Reconciliation, and Change (UBC Press) (with Kate Puddister).
2022. “Hate Speech, Harm, and Rights.” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed. Dilemmas of Free Expression. (University of Toronto Press).
2022. “The Challenge and Controversy of Free Expression.” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed. Dilemmas of Free Expression. (University of Toronto Press).
2019. "The Future of Constitutional Change in Canada: Examining Our Legal, Political, and Jurisprudential Straitjacket." in Richard Albert, Paul Daly, and Vanessa MacDonnell eds., New Frontiers of Constitutional Law. (University of Toronto Press).
2018. “Judicial Policy Impact in Canada,” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution. (University of Toronto Press).
2018. “Policy Influence and Its Limits: Assessing the Power of Courts and the Constitution,” in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Policy Change, Courts, and the Canadian Constitution. (University of Toronto Press).
2017. "Conservative with the Constitution?" in J.P. Lewis and Joanna Everitt, eds. The Blueprint: Conservative Parties and their Impact on Canadian Politics. (University of Toronto Press).
2016. "Striking a Balance: The Players and Procedures of Canada's Constitutional Amending Formula," in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Constitutional Amendment in Canada. (University of Toronto Press).
2016. "The Uncertain Future of Senate Reform," in Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Constitutional Amendment in Canada. (University of Toronto Press).
2016. "The Future of Canadian Constitutional Amendment," in Emmett Macfarlane, ed. Constitutional Amendment in Canada. (University of Toronto Press).
Other Book Chapters:
Forthcoming. "Studying Judicial Decision-Making." Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems. Paul Daly and Joe Tomlinson, eds. Edward Elgar Publishing.
2019. "The Perils and Paranoia of Senate Reform: Does Senate Independence Threaten Canadian Democracy?" State of the Federation 2017. Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Kyle Hanniman, eds. Institute for Intergovernmental Relations (McGill-Queen's University Press).
2019. “Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada.” Policy Transformation in Canada: Is Past Prologue? Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Sophie Borwein, Peter John Loewen, and Andrew Potter eds. (University of Toronto Press).
2017. "Electoral Reform is Not a Rights Issue," in Andrew Potter, Daniel Weinstock and Peter Loewen, eds. Should We Change How We Vote? Evaluating Canada's Electoral System. McGill-Queen's University Press.
Policy Reports/Briefs:
2020. Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (on the sitting of Parliament during the COVID-19 pandemic).
2019. The Renewed Canadian Senate: Organizational Challenges and Relations with the Government. IRPP Study 71. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.
2016. Submission to the House of Commons Electoral Reform Committee.
Other Articles:
2022. “The Success, Failure, and Reality of Judicial Amendment.” I-CONnect – Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. (March 17). http://www.iconnectblog.com/2022/03/the-success-failure-and-reality-of-judicial-amendment/
2021. “Quebec’s attempt to unilaterally amend the Canadian Constitution won’t fly.” Policy Options. (May 14).
2019. “Prorogation, politics and the courts: a Canadian perspective,” Policy Exchange – The Judicial Power Project (October 4, 2019). http://judicialpowerproject.org.uk/emmett-macfarlane-prorogation-politics-and-the-courts-a-canadian-perspective/
2018. “Re: The New Campus Puritans.” Literary Review of Canada. 26(5): 30. [invited letter]
2016. "Who Canadians actually elect." Policy Options (September).
2015. "Much Ado About Little - On Harper's Judicial Appointments." Policy Options. (October).
2015. "Senate Reform: The Good, the Bad, and the Unconstitutional." Policy Options. (September).
2014. "Parliament, not the courts, should decide." Policy Options. 35(2): 37-9.
2013. "Supreme Confusion." Policy Options. 34(3): 45-8.
2013. "Positive Rights." CBA National Magazine.22(3): 42-5.
Review Essay:
2020. "References, Law, and Political Decision-Making: A Review Essay on Carissima Mathen's Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions, and Kate Puddister's Seeking the Court's Advice: The Politics of the Canadian Reference Power." Review of Constitutional Studies. 24(2): 277-86.
2007. “The Attitudinal Model in the Supreme Court of Canada,” Queen’s Law Journal. 33(1): 249-59.
Book Review:
2018. “At the Centre of Government: The Prime Minister and the Limits on Political Power by Ian Brodie.” Canadian Journal of Political Science.
2016. "Due South: Are Canada's Constitutional Values Becoming More American?" Review of Red, White and Kind of Blue? The Conservatives and the Americanization of Canadian Constitutional Culture by David Schneiderman (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015). Literary Review of Canada. 24(2): 24-5.
2010. “Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, Limits of Legality: The Ethics of Lawless Judging. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).” Law & Politics Book Review. 20(11): 590-4.
Conference Papers:
“Beyond the Hate Speech Law Debate: A Charter Values Approach to Freedom of Expression.” The Charter at Forty – From Isolation to Inclusion: Navigating the Post-COVID World. University of Alberta. November 9, 2021. (online)
“The Place of Constitutional Conventions in the Constitutional Architecture, and in the Courts.” Canadian Political Science Association. June 8, 2021. (online)
“Revisiting Judicial Activism.” The Constitution Act, 1982: 40 Years Later – Rights, Reconciliation, and Constitutional Change. Courts & Politics Research Group. May 2, 2021.
“A Constitutional Safeguard for Municipalities: Entrenching Protections for Local Democracy,” Massey Cities Summit, Massey College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, April 8, 2021.
“Identifying the Harms of ‘Harmful Speech’” Workshop Freedom of Expression in Canada. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, October 4, 2019.
“Judicial Amendment v. Judicial Interpretation: A Distinction With a Fundamental Difference.” Canadian Political Science Association. Vancouver, BC, June 4, 2019.
“Judicial Amendment v. Judicial Interpretation: A Distinction With a Fundamental Difference.” 4th Annual Workshop of the Courts & Politics Research Group. University of Guelph, Guelph, ON. May 2, 2019.
“Beverley McLachlin as Leader and Representative.” Symposium in honour of Beverley McLachlin. University of British Columbia, Allard Law School, Vancouver, BC. January 4-5, 2019.
“Senate Reform and the Impact on Policy-Making and Relations with Government.” Institute for Research on Public Policy conference on Renewal of the Canadian Senate: Where to From Here? Ottawa, ON, September 27, 2018.
“Protecting Privacy? The Policy Impact of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.” Canadian Political Science Association. Regina, SK, May 30, 2018.
“The Legacy of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.” 3rd Annual Workshop of the Courts & Politics Research Group. University of Guelph, Guelph, ON. May 10, 2018.
“Religious Accommodation, Diversity and Rights.” Canada’s Policy Transformation. School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. November 17, 2017.
“The Twin Afflictions of Canada’s Amending Formula: A Prescription.” Rewriting the Canadian Constitution. Boston College Law School, Boston, MA, October 20, 2017.
“Examining the Federal Privacy Commissioner.” Prairies Political Science Association. Banff, AB, September 16, 2017.
“Investigating Officers of Parliament: A Case Study of the Federal Privacy Commissioner.” Canadian Political Science Association. Toronto, ON, May 30, 2017.
“Institutional Reform in the Age of Architecture: Avoiding Constitutional Amendment, Altering Conventions?” Constitution 150 – Confederation – Patriation – Reconciliation. Universite de Montreal, Montreal, QC, May 18, 2017.
“Dialogue, Remedies, and Positive Rights: Carter v. Canada as Microcosm for Past and Future Issues under the Charter.” Constitution 150 – The Charter and Emerging Issues in Constitutional Rights and Freedoms: From 1982 to 2032. Ottawa, ON, March 9, 2017.
“Electoral Reform is Not a Rights Issue.” Electoral Reform Symposium, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Ottawa, ON, October 28, 2016.
“Policy Framing, Federalism, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies.” Canadian Political Science Association, Calgary, AB, June 2, 2016.
“The Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner: A Case Study in Rising Political Elites.” Canadian Political Science Association, Calgary, AB, May 31, 2016.
“The Charter Revolution and the Harper Government.” Workshop Honouring Rainer Knopff. University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. May 30, 2016.
“Positive Rights and Section 15: Addressing a Dilemma.” Section 15 of the Charter: Where have we come from, where are we now, and where are we going? York Centre for Public Policy and Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, ON, May 13, 2016.
"Positive Rights and Section 15: Addressing a Dilemma." Courts & Politics Research Group workshop, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, May 5, 2016.
"Constitutional Constraints on Electoral Reform in Canada: Why Parliament is (Mostly) Free to Implement a New Voting System." 19th Annual Constitutional Cases Conference, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, ON, April 8, 2016.
"The Future of Constitutional Amendment in Canada: Examining Our Legal, Political, and Jurisprudential Straitjacket." Canada at 150: New Frontiers of Constitutional Law. Yale University, New Haven, CT, December 15, 2015.
“Examining the Role of Officers of Parliament.” Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, ON, June 2, 2015.
“Electoral Politics and the Supreme Court of Canada.” European Consortium for Political Research. General Conference. Glasgow, Scotland, September 6, 2014.
“Regulatory Bodies: The Assisted Human Reproduction Act and the Future of Abortion Access in Canada.” Abortion: The Unfinished Revolution conference, Charlottetown, PE, August 8, 2014. (With Rachael Johnstone).
“Regulatory Bodies: Abortion and Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Act.” International Political Science Association, Montreal, QC, July 24, 2014. (With Rachael Johnstone).
“The Politics of Constitutional Amendment in Canada.” International Political Science Association, Montreal, QC, July 20, 2014.
"Insurmountable Barrier? Constitutional Politics and the Amending Formulae in Canada,” Canadian Political Science Association, St. Catharines, ON, May 27, 2014.
“Drug Policy, Positive Rights, and Inter-Institutional Battles under the Charter,” Canadian Political Science Association, St. Catharines, ON, May 27, 2014. (With Minh Do).
“Conservative with the Constitution: Between Antipathy and Tolerance in the Charter Era,” Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, Charlottetown, PE, October 5, 2013.
“Supreme Inconsistency: Social Policy and Positive Rights under the Charter,” Canadian Political Science Association, Victoria, BC, June 4, 2013.
“Bills of Rights as Policy: Evaluating the ‘Political Success’ of Australia’s Sub-National Bills of Rights,” Canadian Political Science Association, Edmonton, AB, June 15, 2012.
"Measuring the Political Success of a Bill of Rights: Australia’s Sub-National Bills of Rights in Comparative Perspective,” Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 23, 2012.
“Social Policy, Federalism Disputes and the Courts: Vancouver’s Safe Injection Site as a Case Study in Canadian Multilevel Governance,” Comparing Modes of Governance in Canada and the European Union: Social Policy Engagement across Complex Multilevel Systems, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, October 14-15, 2011.
“Measuring the Policy Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” Canadian Political Science Association, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, May 16, 2011.
“Comparative Conceptions of Dialogue: Parliamentary Systems and Institutional Relationships Surrounding Rights,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November 13, 2010.
“Judicial Conceptions and Legislative Capitulations: Another Foray into the Charter ‘Dialogue’ Debate,” Canadian Political Science Association, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, June 2, 2010.
“The Supreme
Court as a Black Box? Why ‘Models’ of Decision-Making Aren’t Enough,” Canadian
Political Science Association, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver,
“Inside the Supreme Court of Canada: Judicial Role Perceptions and Institutional Policy-Making,” Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, Toronto, ON, November 17, 2007.
“‘Rights Talk’
and Reality in Canada: Does News Media Coverage Impoverish Political Discourse
Regarding the Charter of Rights?” Canadian Political Science Association, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon,
“Filling the Bench by ‘Benching’ the Prime Minister: Real Reform of the Supreme Court of Canada Appointments Process,” Atlantic Provinces’ Political Science Association, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, September 16, 2006.
Invited Talks/Events:
“Rights, Law, and the Pandemic.” Courts & Politics Research Group. University of Toronto. November 12, 2021. (online) [roundtable]
Senate of Canada, Senate Progressive Group. “Constitutional Pariah and Senate Reform.” October 7, 2021. (via Zoom).
Election night panel. Political Science Students Association, University of Waterloo. (online panel). September 20, 2021.
“What’s the Role of [x] in the Election?” Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. (online panel). September 17, 2021.
Constitutional Issues Raised by Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Quebec. Colloquium (closed to the public). Quebec Community Groups Network. June 11, 2021. (online)
“Is the Charter under threat? What you need to know about Quebec’s Bill 96” Canada 2020 panel. June 11, 2021. (online)
“The constitutionality of a mandatory vaccine in a pandemic.” Panel discussion. Runnymede Society. Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Toronto, ON. [videoconference]. September 30, 2020.
Panel: Making the Most of Your Postdoc. University of Waterloo [videoconference] September 22, 2020.
“The Renewed Senate.” The State of Canada’s Constitutional Democracy – Seminars with Leading Voices in Public Law. The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism. [videoconference]. August 4, 2020.
House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. [videoconference] April 23, 2020.
“Who’s Defending Democracy?” Beyond the Headlines. UWaterloo Presidential event in cooperation with CBC. Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex. Waterloo, ON. March 2, 2020.
Plenary Book Panel: Richard Albert’s “Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions” (Oxford University Press, 2019), Constitutional Change Conference 2020, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Austin, Texas, January 18, 2020.
Election Panel: Political Science Students Association. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON. October 21, 2019.
Roundtable: Social Media and the Political Scientist. Canadian Political Science Association. Vancouver, BC, June 4, 2019.
Notwithstanding Clause: Dead Letter or Loaded Gun, at “Law and Freedom: Runnymede Society Conference 2019,” Hart House, University of Toronto, January 12, 2019.
Non-Academic Publishing panel presentation, at “Always a Zero-sum Game? Exploring the Tensions Between Academic Freedom and Anti-oppression.” Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, September 25, 2018.
Roundtable: Public Engagement in Political Science. Canadian Political Science Association. Regina, SK, May 30, 2018.
“Free Expression on Canadian University Campuses.” University of Northern British Columbia. Prince George, BC. March 22, 2018.
“Ontario Politics and the Leadership Race.” Political Science Students Association, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON. March 8, 2018.
An Independent Senate: A new challenge to politics and policy in Canada? The Churchill Society For the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy. Massey College, Toronto, ON, February 22, 2018.
Donald Trump roundtable. PSSA. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON. November 8, 2017.
“The Harper Government and the Supreme Court of Canada: An Unusually Fractious Relationship?” Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, October 16, 2017.
“Modern Challenges in Constitutional Change.” Constitutional Amendment seminar, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, September 20, 2017.
Roundtable: Teaching on the Tenure-Track. Prairies Political Science Association. Banff, AB, September 16, 2017.
Roundtable: Public Engagement in Political Science. Prairies Political Science Association. Banff, AB, September 15, 2017.
Roundtable: Courts and Politics Research: The State of the Field. 2nd Annual Workshop of the Courts & Politics Research Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, May 5, 2017.
“A New Study on Supreme Court Decision-Making.” Canadian Constitution Foundation Law & Freedom Conference. Toronto, ON. January 8, 2017.
Author Meets Critics roundtable: Robert Leckey’s Bills of Rights in Common Law, Canadian Political Science Association, Calgary, AB. June 2, 2016.
Roundtable: The Role of Judges. "Judging Judges: Debating the Role of Canada's Judiciary," Massey College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, February 23, 2016.
"Is the Canadian Constitution Frozen? Examining Canada's Amendment Straitjacket," Department of Political Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, January 27, 2016.
"Religious Freedom, Reasonable Accommodation, and Their Limits," Dr. Laird Christie Annual Lecture in Anthropology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, November 20, 2015.
“What Happens Now Canada?” Post-election panel. Political Science Students’ Association, University of Waterloo. Waterloo, ON. October 26, 2015.
Post-election panel Q&A. Canadian Politics subgroup on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/3pxrf0/were_a_group_of_experts_on_canadian_politics_and/ October 23, 2015.
“The Trouble with Changing the Canadian Constitution.” University of Toronto. Toronto, ON. October 16, 2015.
Independent officers of Parliament conference (roundtable format). University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON. September 24-25, 2015.
The Role of the Judiciary in Canadian Governance. The Institute of Public Administration of Canada-Northwest Territories Group and the Canadian Bar Association Public Sector Lawyers. Yellowknife, NWT (via teleconference). April 24, 2015.
Assisted Dying: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Doctor-Assisted Suicide. University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON, March 18, 2015.
"Unsteady Architecture: Ambiguity, the Senate Reference, and the Future of Constitutional Amendment in Canada.” Democracy, Federalism and the Rule of Law: The Implications of the Senate Reference, McGill Law Symposium, Montreal QC, January 30, 2015.
McGill Law Journal podcast, on big cases the Supreme Court will hear during its fall term. October 14, 2014. http://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/id/3119256
“Roundtable: Supreme Court Reference re Senate Reform,” Canadian Political Science Association, St. Catharines, ON, May 29, 2014.
Q&A, “Governing from the Bench,” Politics 3278: Courts and Legislatures, University of New Brunswick Saint John (via Skype). April 14, 2014.
“How to Talk to the Media.” Presentation and panel discussion, University of Waterloo, March 17, 2014.
“Cases and Controversies at the Supreme Court of Canada.” Talk given to the University of Waterloo Debate Club. March 13, 2013.
“Inside the Supreme Court of Canada: What Factors Influence Judicial Decision-Making?” Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. February 7, 2013.
Q&A, “Ask Me Anything.” Canada Politics Sub-Group on Reddit, December 11, 2012. http://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/14o1xc/i_am_emmett_macfarlane_poli_sci_prof_uwaterloo/
Workshop, “Canadian Priorities Agenda.” Institute for Research on Public Policy, Toronto, ON, November 13, 2012.
Canadian Politics and Social Media Panel Discussion, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, October 6, 2011.
“Conceptual Chaos: The Rights ‘Dialogue’ in Parliamentary Systems of Judicial Review,” Visiting Scholar and Visiting Researcher Colloquium, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, December 1, 2010.