I have posted “The Vavilov Framework and the Future of Canadian Administrative Law” to SSRN: This paper is the first comprehensive analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Vavilov v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2019 SCC 65. Here, the Supreme Court rewrote its administrative law jurisprudence, aiming to bring clarity and coherence to […] Read more
Every year from 2020 I will be organizing an Administrative Law & Governance Colloquium (funded by the University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance) at the University of Ottawa. Students can take the Colloquium for credit (more details below). Here is the schedule for 2020: Professor Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law, […] Read more
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This is the fourth and final post in a series: see the previous posts here, here and here. Having explained in the previous section how front-line administrative officials should not exercise the discretion and judgement they inevitably exercise, I turn in this section to how they should do so. My answer has two prongs. First, […] Read more
Readers who enjoyed my posts on the framework for judicial review of administrative action set out by the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65 will also enjoy Justice David Stratas’s updated paper, “The Canadian Law of Judicial Review: Some Doctrine and Cases“, which now takes […] Read more
