Samuel LaSelva

Professor

Office: Buch C314
Office phone: 604-822-2840
Email: laselva@interchange.ubc.ca

Samuel LaSelva (D.Phil., Oxford) works on political theory, legal philosophy, and constitutional thought and his publications fall within these areas. His research includes The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism as well as essays on J.S. Mill in Political Studies and on the Charter of Rights in the Canadian Journal of Political Science. He is currently at work primarily on the ethics of constitutionalism which includes such topics as hate speech, sexist pornography, secession, multiculturalism, and Aboriginal self-government. He has supervised graduate theses in all areas of his teaching and research.

Currently Teaching

 

Graduate Supervision

 

Recent Publications

  • "‘I Know It When I See It’: Pornography and Constitutional Vision in Canada and the United States,” in S. Newman, ed., Constitutional Politics in Canada and the United States, SUNY, in press.
  • “Mosaic and Melting-Pot: The Dialectic of Pluralism and Constitutional Faith in Canada and the United States,” in H. Telford and H. Lazar, eds., Canadian Political Culture(s) in Transition, McGill Queen’s University Press, 2002.
  • “Federalism, Pluralism and Constitutional Faith,” Review of Constitutional Studies, 2002.
  • “Liberalism, Feminism, and Pornography: Regina v. Butler” (with R. Vernon), in H. Mellon and M. Westmacott, eds., Political Dispute and Judicial Review, Nelson, 2000.
  • “Pluralism and Hate: Freedom, Censorship, and the Canadian Identity,” in K. Petersen and A. Hutchinson, eds., Interpreting Censorship in Canada, University of Toronto Press, 1999.
  • “Divided Houses: Secession and Constitutional Faith in Canada and the United States,” Vermont Law Review, 1999.
  • "Aboriginal Self-Government and the Foundations of Canadian Nationhood," B.C. Studies, Winter 1998/99.

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