Wilfrid Joseph Waluchow (born 1953), known as Wil Waluchow or W. J. Waluchow, is a Canadian philosopher, currently the Senator William McMaster Chair in Constitutional Studies at

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, where he has taught since 1984. General jurisprudence and the philosophy of constitutional law are his main research interests. After studying for his undergraduate and master's degrees at the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO; branded as Western University) is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by residential neighbourhoods and the Thame ...

, he went on to

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

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).

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