Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
@emmettmacfarlane
Professor of political science. Author. Dad. Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics. Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
New office set up. Should've added these monitors years ago instead of working just off a sole laptop screen all this time like a pauper.
Very cool to see my latest chapter out, with @katepuddister.bsky.social, on provincial constitutional unilateralism and weak federal powers. Thanks to the editors for the invite to write!
I was curious what ChatGPT would say, so I asked it. This is basically right:
I might have to spend the weekend working on my CPSA papers, but I will do it in my summer office.
Page proofs! My chapter in Richard Albert et al., eds. "Rewriting the Canadian Constitution" book, coming soon via University of Toronto Press.
Here's Google's AI answering a question I asked about when the Alford case was heard at the SCC. See that description at the bottom? IT'S COMPLETELY INACCURATE.
Yeah, who needs space to situate and justify the importance of your contribution in existing knowledge or explain the implications of your findings when you can just blurt out what your non-generalizable focus group 'experiment' did or said.
Nice to see my latest journal article IN PRINT(!) - part of a special double issue of the National Journal of Constitutional Law in honour of the late Peter Hogg. My thanks to Jamie Cameron and her co-editors for the invitation to contribute.
Coming soon, a peer-reviewed piece from me on Canada's approach to online hate speech, and why the UK provides a better alternative to the Trudeau/Carney approach. My thanks to Dax D'Orazio for the invite to write and to Richard Mailey for guiding the publication process at Constitutional Forum.
My university replaced one of the few food places on the south end of campus with a solitary vending machine. #BudgetCrisis
Fuuuuuck this. In the midst of a budget crisis and hiring freeze, my university has money to pour into the AI slop bubble.
Page proofs in my inbox, coming soon to the National Journal of Constitutional Law!
The Spring/Summer UTP catalog is out! Page 27 is lookin' goooood. @uoftpress.bsky.social utppublishing.com/pb-assets/bo...
I see the publisher has a marketing page up for my next edited book - with the amazing @katepuddister.bsky.social - so I'm thrilled to be able to publicly share the (very cool) cover:
Finally finished the Back to the Future time machine. #LEGO
Starting to think the freezing rain is gonna get bad...
Lookit what i got for Christmas! Apparently sold out globally in 10 minutes.
Thrilled to get Minh Do's brand new book in my hands, from @ubcpress.bsky.social. Very proud of my brilliant friend (and former student).
Just received the copyedits for our forthcoming book with University of Toronto Press. This will be my 9th book (6th edited collection). Another amazing group of contributors!
Some major accumulation here in Waterloo, and it's still snowing...
Watched Firefly with the kiddo, so today we watched the Serenity movie. Kiddo just came up to me, "look, I made the front of a Reaver ship!"
I went out and bought a physical copy, because, and damn. $6.73? I was a mildly outraged old man "In my day, you could get a newspaper for 25 cents!"