2020

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Registration Open for the Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium 2021 “Front-Line Administration”

Register here for the 2021 Colloquium, which will be free to access online via Zoom. Further details on the theme of “Front-Line Administration” and the speakers can be found here. And here is the schedule: Tuesday, February 9, 2020, 11.30am to 1pm EST Marc Hertogh (Groningen), Legal Alienation in Front-Line Decision-Making (discussing Nobody’s Law: Legal […] Read more

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Who Decides What to Shut Down (II)?

My bedtime reading at the moment is Stephen Bown, The Company: the Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire. Bown recounts how the Hudson’s Bay Company contributed to the founding of what is now Canada. Originally a trading company based out of London (England), from where it spread its tentacles all over the northern […] Read more

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Canadian Labour Law after Vavilov

I have posted “Canadian Labour Law after Vavilov” to SSRN. It will be published in 2021 in the Canadian Journal of Labour and Employment Law: Canada’s doctrine of deference to administrative decision-makers was built on foundations provided by labour relations arbitrators and tribunals. With Vavilov, however, those foundations have shifted. In the formative years of […] Read more

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Vavilov’s First Birthday, December 18

In association with the Centre for Public Law and the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue Join some of Canada’s leading experts for a day-long conference analyzing the implications of the key decision of Vavilov for various areas of administrative decision-making. We will celebrate Vavilov’s first birthday on December 18. The conference will be remote, on […] Read more