Detailed profiles of the electees are here.

The new Law electees are: Constance Backhouse (Ottawa), Allan Hutchinson (Osgoode/York U), and Richard Simeon (Toronto).

Only one philosopher was elected this year: Thomas Lennon, an historian of early modern philosophy, from the University of Western Ontario.

UPDATE: A reader points out that the Royal Society of Canada elects roughly sixty new members per year in a country whose population is smaller than California’s. In the United States, with a population nine times the size, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences elects 180 new members per year (though almost always elects 4-5 new philosophy members each year, as well as 4-5 in law). Assuming an even distribution of scholarly talent between the two countries, it seems that either the Royal Society is electing far too many members, or the American Academy is electing far too few, relative to the amount of existing talent. Similarly, the Royal Society (for the hard sciences) and the British Academy (for the humanities and social scienced) in Britain elect, together, about 75-80 new members each year (though not all are resident in the U.K., but most are). The population of the U.K. is not quite twice that of Canada, while the U.S. population is still more than five times as large.