Emmett MacFarlane is a political scientist whose research examines the relationships between rights, governance and public policy, with a particular focus on the Supreme Court of Canada's impact on public policy and political discourse under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. I also teach at UWaterloo's Master of Public Service program. MacFarlane earned my Ph.D (2009) and MA (2005) in political science at Queen's University, and a BA (2003) at the University of Western Ontario. In 2009-10, he was an Associate of the Canada Program at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. During the 2010-11 academic year, he was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School. In 2011-2012 MacFarlane taught at the University of Victoria. MacFarlane has published in the International Political Science Review, Supreme Court Law Review, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Review of Constitutional Studies, Canadian Public Administration, and the Queen's Law Journal.