Publications and Conference Papers
Selected Published Works
“Trinity Western University’s Law School and the Associational Dimension of Religious Freedom: Toward Comprehensive Liberalism” UNB Law Journal. 66
“The Supreme Court of Canada as Moral Tutor: Religious Freedom, Civil Society, and Charter Values.” In David Livingstone, ed., Liberal Education, Civic Education and the Canadian Regime. (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming 2015)
“The Other Shoe to Drop: Marc Nadon and Judicial Appointment Politics in Post-Charter Canada” Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law 9:1 (March, 2015), 169 – 188
With Don Desserud and J.P. Lewis, “The 2014 Provincial Election in New Brunswick” Canadian Political Science Review
“Flirting with Aggressive Secularism: Canada Confronts its Christian Law School” Philosophy, Culture, and Tradition
“Prime Ministers and Presidents: Institutional Differences and Political Convergence” in David Thomas and David Biette, eds., Canada and the United States: Differences that Count.(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014)
“Stuck…In This Place: Shrinking Policy Space in New Brunswick.” Journal of New Brunswick Studies 2 (2011), 17 – 35
“Human Dignity’s False Start in the Supreme Court of Canada: Equality Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” International Journal of Human Rights. (2011): 1 – 21
“Courts and the Paradox of Political Leadership” in Joe Masciulli, Mikhail Molchanov, and Any Knight, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Leadership (London: Ashgate, 2009).
“The Court and the Charter: Leading Cases.” Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008. Eds Thomas M.J. Bateman, Janet L. Hiebert, Peter H. Russell, and Rainer Knopff
“The Court and the Constitution: Leading Cases.” Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2008. Eds., Rainer Knopff, and Peter H. Russell, Thomas M.J. Bateman, Janet L. Hiebert
“Braving the New World: Readings in Contemporary Politics." 4th edition. Co-edited with Richard Myers. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2008)
“Just What the Doctor Ordered: Private Health Care and the Charter” in Braving the New World: Readings in Contemporary Politics. 4th edition. Co-edited with Richard Myers. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2008)
“Legal Modesty and Political Boldness: The Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision in Chaoulli v. Quebec” Review of Constitutional Studies. 11:2 (Summer 2006), 317 – 43
“Braving the New World: Readings in Contemporary Politics.” 3rd edition. Co-edited with Roger Epp. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2004)
“To Caesar What is His: Liberalism, Judicial Politics, and Religion in Canada,” in Bateman and Epp, eds., Braving the New World: Readings in Contemporary Politics. 3rd edition. (Toronto: Thomson Nelson, 2004), 189 – 198
“The New Globalism in Canadian Charter of Rights Interpretation: Extradition, the Death Penalty, and the Courts” International Journal of Human Rights. 7:3 (Autumn, 2003), 49-71
Selected Talks and Unpublished Papers
“John Dewey’s A Common Faith and Religious Humanism,” for presentation at the 21st Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Plymouth, Massachusetts, April 9 – 12, 2015
“Progressive Canadian Constitutionalism and the Withering of the Living Tree Metaphor,” for presentation, Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, New Haven, Connecticut, April 24 – 25, 2015
“The Canadian Charter, Interest Groups, and Social Advocacy” presented to St. Stephen University students at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, March 13, 2015
“Billy Budd, Sailor and the Problem of Political Necessity” presented to the St. Thomas University Student Conference on Art and Human Rights, Fredericton, New Brunswick, April 30, 2014
“The Other Shoe to Drop: Judicial Appointment Politics in Post-Charter Canada” presented to the Annual Conference, New England Political Science Association, Woodstock, Vermont, April 25 – 26, 2014
“Billy Budd, Rousseau’s Discourses, and the Movement to post-Christianity” presented to the Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Los Angeles, California, April 10 – 12, 2014
“Was Pierre Trudeau Canada’s Machiavellian Prince?” Public Lecture as part of the St. Thomas University Great Books Public Lecture Series Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of Machiavelli’s The Prince, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 19, 2013
“Courts and Political Culture: Deference and Individualism in Canadian Democracy” presented to the Annual Meeting, New England Political Science Association, Portland, Maine, May 3 – 5, 2013
“Intimations of the Tyrannical Soul in The Godfather” to the Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Ottawa, Ontario, April 25 – 28, 2013
“Religious Freedom, Civil Society, and Charter Values: The Unfolding of the Charter Revolution” to the Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association meeting, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 28 – 30, 2012
“Guilt and Innocence in Koestler’s Darkness at Noon.” Presented to the Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 30 – April 1, 2012
“The Bouchard-Taylor Report on Reasonable Accommodation: Between Liberal Pluralism and Transformative Liberalism.” Presented to the Annual Meeting, Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, September 30 – October 2, 2011
“Is André Siegfried Canada’s Tocqueville?” Presented to the Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, New Haven, Connecticut, April 2011
“Toqueville and the Problem of Associational Autonomy.” Paper presented to the annual conference of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 15 – 18, 2010.
“NB Power: The Sale that has generated more heat than light.” Speech delivered to the Y’s Men service club, March 16, 2010, Fredericton.
“Human Dignity and Charter Equality Rights: From Rhetorical Tool to Legal Rule and Back”. Paper presented to the Annual Meeting, Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, October 2 – 4, 2009
“Faith and Politics: Do they Mix?” IVCF Public Forum, STU, March 19, 2009
"Public Consultation in New Brunswick: A New Front for Judicial Action" presented to Annual Conference, Canadian Constitutional Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, October 17 – 19
"The Law and Politics of Public Consultation in New Brunswick" presented to the Annual Meeting, Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 3 – 5, 2008
“New Brunswick’s Self-Sufficiency Agenda.” Lecture for STU/UNB Student Political Science Associations, UNB, Fredericton, New Brunswick, February 28, 2008
“The New Politics of Multiculturalism in Canada.” Talk for Kiwanis Club, Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 6, 2007
“Thoughts on the Theory and Practice of Judicial Leadership" presented to the Annual Meeting, Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, UNB, Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 29, 2007
“Liberalism, the Charter, and the Future of Associational Freedom in Canada” UNB Law School, Fredericton, New Brunswick, February 22, 2007
“Citizen Engagement and the New Politics of Health Care" presented to the Annual Convention, New Brunswick Health Care Association, Fredericton, New Brunswick, November 7, 2006
"Liberalism, Pluralism, and Christian Faith" The Faculty and Graduate Student Forum on Christian Faith and the University, UNB, Fredericton, New Brunswick October 27, 2006
“Legal Modesty and Political Boldness: The Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision in Chaoulli v. Quebec.” Paper presented to the Annual Meeting, Atlantic Provinces Political Science Association, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, October 14 – 16, 2005
“The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” presented to the St. Thomas University Summer Human Rights Institute, Fredericton, New Brunswick, July 23, 2005
“The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms” presented to the St. Thomas University Summer Human Rights Institute, Fredericton, New Brunswick, July 28, 2004
“The Law and the Spirit: Thoughts on the Canadian Constitutional Revolution” presented to a meeting of the Christian Legal Fellowship, Moncton, New Brunswick, May 15, 2004
“Just Sue It: Commercial Speech and the Liberal View of the First Amendment” presented to the Annual Meeting, Canadian Political Science Association, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 3 – 5, 2004