Later this year, starting next month, Verfassungsblog will be running a symposium on the law and politics of the pandemic. I’m contributing a piece on Canada. Here are some thoughts, building on a book chapter I wrote last summer. The role of the judiciary has been relatively passive. Monsanto v. Canada (Health), 2020 FC 1053 […] Read more

Earlier this week I recorded a podcast with Justice Pallotta of the Federal Court for the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice’s new In All Fairness series. You can listen to the podcast here. Do also subscribe to the series. Here is an outline of my discussion with Justice Pallotta: What are the historical […] Read more

Happy New Year! I have posted “Patent Unreasonableness after Vavilov” to SSRN. Here is the abstract: Much ink has already been spilled about the implications of the Supreme Court of Canada’s reformulation of administrative law in Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov. One issue, which has largely been overlooked in the literature but will require […] Read more