Wil Waluchow Explained

Wil Waluchow
Birth Name:	Wilfrid Joseph Waluchow
Birth Date:	8 December 1953^[1]
Nationality:	Canadian
Other Names:	W. J. Waluchow
School Tradition:	Legal positivism
Doctoral Advisor:	H. L. A. Hart
Discipline:	Philosophy
Sub Discipline:	Philosophy of law
Workplaces:	McMaster University
Notable Ideas:	Inclusive legal positivism^[2]

Wilfrid Joseph Waluchow^[3] (born 1953), known as Wil Waluchow or W. J. Waluchow, is a Canadian philosopher, currently the Senator William McMaster Chair in Constitutional Studies at McMaster University, where he has taught since 1984. General jurisprudence and the philosophy of constitutional law are his main research interests.^[4]

After studying for his undergraduate and master's degrees at the University of Western Ontario, he went on to Oxford University to study philosophy of law under the supervision of H. L. A. Hart. Two notable contributions to the discipline are Inclusive Legal Positivism (1994), defending the inclusivist version of legal positivism and A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree (2007).^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Waluchow, Wilfrid J. - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress).
2. Encyclopedia: Green . Leslie . Leslie Green (philosopher) . Adams . Thomas . 2019 . Legal Positivism . Zalta . Edward N. . Edward N. Zalta . The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Winter 2019 . Stanford, California . Stanford University . 15 October 2021.
3. Web site: Wilfrid Joseph Waluchow - McMaster Experts.
4. Web site: Legal Philosophy at McMaster (Wil Walchow cv) . Walchow . Wil . McMaster University . McMaster University . September 15, 2016.
5. Mendes. Conrado Hübner. July 2007. Review of A Common Law Theory of Judicial Review: The Living Tree, by W. J. Waluchow. 4500917. The Cambridge Law Journal. 66. 2. 471–474. 10.1017/S0008197307000645. 143819006.