The international conference was held at the University of Victoria in March 2020 just before the COVID-19 lockdown. It was organized jointly by the EUCAnet Initiative, the Cedar Trees Institute at the Centre for Global Studies, and the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. While the grant of the European Union awarded to Oliver...

Increasingly, scholars and commentators have voiced concern over the rise of populist politics. A principal focus of this concern has been constitutionalism: the processes, constraints, and foundational understandings of constitutional government. Populists appear to flout these processes, constraints, and understandings, or alternatively harness...

Young Scholar Essay Contest: POPULISM: a corrective or a threat to democracy? Young scholars at Canadian universities are encouraged to participate in a discussion on democracy and populism T he rise of populism from the right and the left has fundamentally challenged traditional party politics in Europe and North America. Established centrist...