Jacob T. Levy

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory, Professor of Political Science, and associated faculty in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University.  He is the coordinator of McGill’s Research Group on Constitutional Studies and Montreal’s Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique, and the founding director of McGill’s Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds. He is the author of The Multiculturalism of Fear (Oxford 2000) and Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom (Oxford 2015), and editor or coeditor of Colonialism and Its Legacies, Nomos LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory.  His research interests include federalism, constitutionalism, freedom of association, Montesquieu, the history of liberal thought, and the rights of ethnic and cultural minorities. He sits on the editorial boards of The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies and Publius: The Journal of Federalism.  He is a member of the Board of Advisors and an Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University, an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University, and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Jacob T. Levy posts

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Levy on The Curious Task: Academic freedom

22 Jun 2022 Jacob T. Levy
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Nevermore Trump

24 Nov 2020 Jacob T. Levy
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Honoring The Dishonorable, Part 2: The Dishonorable Living

09 Sep 2020 Jacob T. Levy
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Honoring the Dishonorable Part 1: The Dishonorable Dead

28 Jul 2020 Jacob T. Levy
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Op-Ed: There's nothing wrong with 'dual loyalties.'

01 Nov 2019 Jacob T. Levy
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The Metastasizing Crisis: Executive Authority and the Crumbling of the Separation of Powers

07 Aug 2019 Jacob T. Levy
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Why I Am Not a Moderate

22 Feb 2019 Jacob T. Levy
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Democracy for Republicans:

20 Feb 2019 Jacob T. Levy
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Op-Ed: The Democrats' Best Response to Republican Power Grabs

11 Dec 2018 Jacob T. Levy
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Winning Isn't Everything

11 Oct 2018 Jacob T. Levy
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Immigration
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Law and Border

25 Jul 2018 Jacob T. Levy
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The Weight of the Words

07 Feb 2018 Jacob T. Levy
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The Limits of Legalism

27 Nov 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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Black Liberty Matters

20 Sep 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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The Sovereign Myth

15 Jun 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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Op-ed: Why Walking Out Is Better Than Shouting Down

26 May 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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The Shortcut to Serfdom

16 May 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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A Government of Laws, Not Son-in-Laws

20 Apr 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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Federalism, jurisdiction, and resistance

22 Feb 2017 Jacob T. Levy
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The Free Society Is an Open Society

31 Jan 2017 Jacob T. Levy