Dennis Baker
Associate Professor
College of Social & Applied Human Sciences
Department of Political Science
Guelph, Ontario
bakerd@uoguelph.ca
Office:
(519) 824-4120 ext. 56635
Expert In
Canadian government
Canadian politics
Constitutional law
Constitutionalism
Courts
Criminal justice
Evidence in sexual assault cases
Law and politics
Parliament and constitutional interpretation
Political theory
Prisoners’ voting rights
Representative Branches
Retroactive remedies in same-sex equality cases
Separation of powers
Supreme Court of Canada
Bio/Research
Dr. Baker's research focuses on the separation of powers, particularly the relationship between the courts and the representative branches. His book, "Not Quite Supreme", considers the limits of the Supreme Court of Canada’s power to settle political controversies and offers a spirited defense of...
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Bio/Research
Dr. Baker's research focuses on the separation of powers, particularly the relationship between the courts and the representative branches. His book, "Not Quite Supreme", considers the limits of the Supreme Court of Canada’s power to settle political controversies and offers a spirited defense of a Parliament’s role in constitutional interpretation. Baker has written on a number of constitutional controversies including the use of retroactive remedies in same-sex equality cases and has co-authored articles on the institutional politics behind the rules of evidence in sexual assault cases and the strategic maneuvering behind the Supreme Court rulings on prisoners’ voting rights.
Baker is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary.
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Baker is a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Calgary.
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