Joshua Nichols
Assistant Professor
Joshua Nichols is Metis from Treaty 8 Territory in British Columbia. He teaches Aboriginal law, constitutional history, and legal theory.
His research centers on the legacy of British Imperialism and the conflictual constitutional relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples. In particular, he is interested in how Indigenous constitutional practices have responded to the development of the centralized administrative state since the mid-19th century.
In his latest projects, he is exploring the historical genealogy of the administrative state within the British Empire and the possibilities for post-Westphalian forms of multinational federalism.
- PhD, University of Victoria, 2017
- JD, University of British Columbia, 2014
- PhD, University of Toronto (Philosophy), 2009
- MA, University of Alberta (Sociology), 2004
- BA (Hons.) University of Alberta (Political Science), 2003
Aboriginal law and Indigenous constitutionalism, constitutional history, history of the British Empire, administrative law, multinational federalism, legal and political philosophy
