The last in this year’s Administrative Law and Governance Colloquium takes place on Tuesday next, April 5 at 11.30 eastern time. My guest will be Dr. Jennifer Cobbe from the University of Cambridge. She will be discussing “Reviewable Automated Decision-making”, based on her important articles on the subject (see e.g. here and here). Here is […] Read more

I have posted a new paper to SSRN, reflecting on the lessons of the pandemic for the Canadian legal system. It is to appear in a French-language collection edited by Jean-Bernard Auby. You can download the full paper here. In Section 4, I offer some thoughts about the medium- and long-term consequences of the pandemic […] Read more

Here is the introduction to my new paper on SSRN, “The Administrative State after the Carbon Tax References“. Regular readers will have seen the posts which make up the bulk of the paper (see e.g. here), but this introductory material is new and attempts to place the administrative law aspects of the References in broader […] Read more

I have posted a new paper to SSRN, reflecting on the lessons of the pandemic for the Canadian legal system. It is to appear in a French-language collection edited by Jean-Bernard Auby. You can download the full paper here. In Section 3, I offer an ethical reflection on the Canadian response to the pandemic. Section […] Read more

A message from Daphne Simon, the Executive Director of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE SOAR SCHOLARSHIP 2022 The Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators is pleased to award an annual academic scholarship. SOAR is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan association of Chairs, members, management and staff of the province’s […] Read more

I have posted “The Administrative State after the Carbon Tax References” to SSRN (forthcoming in the Review of Constitutional Studies): This is a case comment on the aspects of the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2021 decision in the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act which are relevant to the administrative state. Three aspects of […] Read more

For those of you who weren’t able to join us live, here is Sunny Kang’s presentation, “Algorithmic Accountability in Public Administration: The GDPR Paradox” from this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium. This was really excellent — and also features some technological bloopers at the beginning. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEnaHUODY38 Tomorrow, I welcome Teresa Scassa and, on […] Read more

I am looking forward to the next installation of this year’s Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium on Tuesday, March 22 at 11.30 eastern time. My guest will be my colleague, Professor Teresa Scassa, who will be discussing the governance of automated decision-making in Canada (see her recent paper). Register here or alternatively join the event […] Read more

I have posted a new paper to SSRN, reflecting on the lessons of the pandemic for the Canadian legal system. It is to appear in a French-language collection edited by Jean-Bernard Auby. You can download the full paper here. In Section 2 I describe the reactions of the Canadian legal system to the arrival of […] Read more