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James Tully

Chris Tollefson

B.A. (UBC) 1973, Ph.D. (Cambridge) 1976.

Professor Tully is the Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Law, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy. He taught in Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University from 1977 to 1996, and was Professor and Chair of Political Science at UVic from 1996 to 2001.

From 2001 to 2003, Professor Tully was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor in Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto, in Philosophy, Political Science and Law. In 2003, he returned to the University of Victoria. Tully is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Emeritus Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. His main areas of interest are contemporary legal and political theory (and their history), constitutionalism and the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Professor Tully's publications include Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity, Multinational Democracies (co-editor), and Public Philosophy in a New Key (2 volumes). He is also the co-editor of Ideas in Context book series. He teaches selected topics in legal theory at UVic Law, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.


James Tully
Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2
Canada

Email: James Tully
Fax: 250-721-8146
Tel: 250-721-7494


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