Patriation and Its Consequences: Constitution Making in Canada

About

Lois Harder is a professor of political science at the University of Alberta. Her current research focuses on the law and politics of Canadian citizenship. She is the co-editor (with Steve Patten) of The Chrétien Legacy: Politics and Public Policy in Canada (McGill-Queens University Press 2006). In 2008 she held a Fulbright Visiting Professorship at the University of Hawai'i; and in September 2014 she was the Eccles Centre Visiting Canadian Fellow in North American Studies at the British Library. She is currently writing a book on the birthright citizenship claims of the Lost Canadians.Steve Patten is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. His recent publications include The Triumph of Neoliberalism within Partisan Conservatism in Canada in Conservatism in Canada (University of Toronto Press 2013) and The Politics of Albertas One-Party State in Transforming Provincial Politics: The Political Economy of Canadas Provinces and Territories in a Neoliberal Era (University of Toronto Press forthcoming). With Lois Harder he edited The Chrétien Legacy: Politics and Public Policy in Canada (McGill-Queens University Press 2006). Dr. Patten serves on the editorial board of the Review of Constitutional Studies.