Mark S. Harding
Associate Professor
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, Criminal Justice and Public Policy, Master of Criminal Justice, Department of Political Science
Research Areas
- Law and Politics
- Constitutional Theory
- Canadian Politics
- Political Theory
About
Mark Harding is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. From 2021 to 2025, he served as the inaugural chair of the Justice and Legal Studies program. His teaching and research focus on judicial politics, Canadian political institutions, and political theory.
He is the author of Judicializing Everything? The Clash of Constitutionalisms in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and co-editor of the third editions of The Court and the Constitution and The Court and the Charter (University of Toronto Press).
Harding completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Calgary, where he was a fellow of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, held a Killam Memorial Scholarship, and taught in the Master of Public Policy program at the School of Public Policy. He currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant examining the role of Charter Statements in Canadian courts and Parliament.
Select Publications
- Harding, Mark S., (2022) Judicializing Everything? The Clash of Constitutionalisms in Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
- Harding, Mark S. (2026). “Partisan Divides and Disciplinary Divides? Political Scientists, Legal Scholars, and the Politics of Judicial Selection” in Emmett Macfarlane and Kate Puddister, Disciplinary Divides: The Study of Law and Politics, (University of Toronto Press).
- Harding, Mark S. (2024). Lament for “the Canadian way”: Political Constitutionalism at the Special Joint Committee on the Constitution, 1980-81. Review of Constitutional Studies, 28.1, 147-174.
- Brendan Dell and Mark S. Harding. (2025). “A Culture of Rights or Governing like Judges? Assessing the Trudeau Government’s use of Charter Statements” in Emmett Macfarlane’s Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
- Harding, Mark S., and Dave Snow. (2022). From the Ivory Tower to the Courtroom: Cooperative Federalism in the Supreme Court of Canada, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjac033.