Information About Administrative Law Matters

Predicting the long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has become a cottage industry. It is also something of a fool’s errand as the medium- to long-term outcomes depend in large part on how many waves of COVID-19 sweep over us and how bad the effects are. Nonetheless, for what little they a … Read more »

With the support of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society I will be moderating a discussion of the recent Federal Court of Appeal decision in Entertainment Software Assoc. v. Society Composers, 2020 FCA 100, a case at the intersection of copyright law and administrative law. I will be joined by … Read more »

I am currently working on a chapter for “Leading Works in Public Law”, a collection edited by Ben Yong and Patrick O’Brien. My chapter is on SA de Smith’s Judicial Review of Administrative Action. Here is a draft of the third section, on “The Significance” The Significance Judicial Review of Adminis … Read more »

Although this year’s Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual issue of the Supreme Court Law Review containing papers from the Conference is going ahead. My paper is entitled “Vavilov and the Culture of Justification in Contemporary Administrativ … Read more »

Recently, Mark Mancini and Léonid Sirota at Double Aspect took issue with the arguments we made in our posts on the Vavilov decision which Paul Daly had kindly published at Administrative Law Matters. Paul has since generously offered us space to respond. We aim to keep our rejoinder short and spicy … Read more »