Information About Administrative Law Matters

This is part three of my piece on Justice Morissette Cette conception positiviste du droit administratif a même été traduite au droit administratif en 2013 par la Cour suprême du Canada dans un litige nommé McLean concernant l’interprétation de la loi habilitante d’une Commission des valeu … Read more »

This is part two of my piece on Justice Morissette Au cÅ“ur de la thèse Morissettienne est la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada dans SCFP,[1] dont l’importance fondamentale est la reconnaissance formelle du caractère essentiellement indéterminée du droit statutaire. Cependant, pour bien … Read more »

This Fall I am teaching a new course on advanced administrative law at the University of Ottawa. Here is the overview and course outline. Advanced Administrative Law (The Law of Economic Regulation) Paul Daly Fall 2026 Overview Students in this course learn the legal principles relating to the regul … Read more »

I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a paper last month in honour of Justice Morissette, latterly of the Quebec Court of Appeal and for many years a professor (and then dean) at McGill’s Faculty of Law. I am going to reproduce the paper in four parts here: the introduction (in this post) and th … Read more »

I am looking forward very much to a trip to South Africa next week for the Public Law Conference this year on the theme of Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy. My paper is on “An Institutional Approach to Judicial Independence and Accountability”: My goal in this contribution is t … Read more »