Paul Warchuk

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Paul Warchuk is an assistant professor at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law. His research scrutinizes legal institutions and processes from historical and empirical perspectives, focusing on judicial decision-making and the relationship between the judiciary and other state actors. He investigates how courts both entrench and restrain governmental power through doctrines of judicial supervision, including administrative law and the protection of private property rights.

He holds a PhD in English legal history from the University of Cambridge, an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a JD from Queen’s University. He clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Justice Suzanne Côté and at the Federal Court of Appeal for Justice David Stratas. Before joining UNB, he was counsel in the Constitutional, Administrative and International Law Section at the federal Department of Justice. He is called to the bar of Ontario.