Information About Administrative Law Matters

Cross-posted from Australian Public Law blog: for the opening post in the series, see here. As Janina Boughey has recently observed, the reforms that followed from the report of the Administrative Review Committee, more commonly known as the Kerr Committee, were sweeping and, at the time, revolution … Read more »

In New Brunswick – Canada’s only bilingual province – there is a constitutional challenge to the appointment of a unilingual Lieutenant Governor. The Centre for Public Law held a panel discussion on the case last week. My comments, which relate to the justiciability of prime ministerial advice to th … Read more »

Many thanks to those of you who joined in for this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium. Here are the recordings of the talks (with, sadly, the exception of the first, which was snaffled up by technical gremlins), by Jennifer Raso (“Reasons and Justification”), Bernardo Zacka (“Public S … Read more »

I am happy to be cross-posting from the Australian Public Law blog a series of posts celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Kerr Report, a landmark report in Australian administrative law and one which forms part of a Commonwealth-wide wave of administrative law reform. The first post is by Dr Jani … Read more »

The last speaker in this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium is Professor Jennifer Nou (University of Chicago). We will be live on Zoom on Tuesday March 23 at 11.30 EST. Professor Nou will be speaking about her well-known article “Civil Servant Disobedience“: Bureaucratic resistance is … Read more »