Speaking engagements

Academic papers

• « Defending Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World », Centre for Comparative and Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong, March 28 2022.
• « Invoking the Emergencies Act: Critical Reflections », Centre for Public Law, University of Ottawa, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Public Order Emergency Commission (Rouleau Commission) Report, Ottawa, March 29 2023.
• « “Comparative Reflections on State-Owned Enterprises” », School of Law, National University of Mongolia, Fourth Annual Conference on Constitutional and Administrative Law, Ulan Bator , March 21, 2023.
• « Administrative Tribunals on the Move? », Canadian Bar Association, Administrative Law, Labour Law and Employment Law Annual Conference, Ottawa, November 4 2022.
• « Independence and Impartiality in Immigration Decision-Making », United Kingdom Administrative Justice Institute, Seminar, University of Essex, November 1 2022.
• « Algorithmic Accountability in Canada », International Academy of Comparative Law General Congress, Asuncion, October 24 2022.
• « COVID-19 in Canada: the Legal Framework », International Academy of Comparative Law General Congress, Asuncion, October 24 2022.
• « The Autonomy of Administration », Symposium in Honour of Justice Abella, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, September 23 2022.
• « A Defence of Administrative Law Doctrine », The Promise of Legality: Critical Reflections on the work of TRS Allan, Sherbrooke, September 17 2022.
• « The Federal Courts and Administrative Law », Federal Courts 50th Anniversary Conference, National Judicial Institute, Ottawa, June 27 2022.
• « A Justified Use of Emergency Powers? », Transnational Administrative Law Network, Annual Meeting, Barcelona, June 2 2022.
• « Constitutionally Conforming Interpretation in Canada », Public Law Workshop, University of Ottawa/Tel Aviv University , Ottawa, May 10 2022.
• « Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World: The Comparative Dimension », Public Law Cluster, School of Law, University of Essex, University of Essex, Marc 9 2022.
• « La perspective anglo-américaine », Louvain Global College of Law: Raison, proportionnalité, déférence et séparation des pouvoirs , Louvain, February 24 2022.
• « Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World: An Overview », Centre for Public Law, University of Ottawa, Book Launch , January 26 2022.
• « Panelist: Regulating AI », Law Commission of Ontario, AI Decision-Making: Protecting Rights Through Litigation and Regulation in Canada and the United States , Toronto, December 9 2021.
• « Executive Power in the Westminster Tradition », Sciences Po, Executive Accountability Project, Paris, November 29 2021.
• « Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World: An Overview », Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales, Book Seminar Series , Sydney, November 25 2021.
• « Copyright Law after Access Copyright 2021: What Future for the Copyright Board », ALAI Canada, Seminar , Montreal, November 19 2021.
• « Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World: An Overview », Centre for Constitutional Studies, University College Dublin, Book Launch , Dublin, November 4 2021.
• « The Kerr Report, 50 Years On: An Overseas View », Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales, Kerr’s Vision Splendid for Administrative Law: Still Fit for Purpose , Sydney, October 21 2021.
• « Studying the Administrative State », Edward Elgar, Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems Workshop , York, June 8 2021.
• « Tribunal Expertise and Competence: Doctrinal Law Perspective », Windsor Law & Tribunal Watch Ontario, The Principles for Adjudicative Tribunals & Administrative Justice Webinar Series , Windsor, June 1 2021.
• « Tribunal Independence: Doctrinal Law Perspective », Windsor Law & Tribunal Watch Ontario, The Principles for Adjudicative Tribunals & Administrative Justice Webinar Series , Windsor, May 25 2021.
• « COVID au Canada : Formes de pouvoir étatique et le rôle des juges », Centre de recherche sur la régulation et le droit de la gouvernance, Université de Sherbrooke, Conférences CrRDG , Sherbrooke, April 6 2021.
• « Cities and the Culture of Justification », Massey College, Massey College Cities Summit, Toronto, April 6 2021.
• « Unresolved Issues after Vavilov », Association of Crown Counsel of Saskatchewan, Hugh M Ketcheson QC Memorial Lecture , Regina, November 19 2020.
• « Labour Law after Vavilov », Queen’s University, Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace, What Difference will Vavilov Make?, Kingston, October 16 2020.
• « The Generation and Guardianship of Constitutional Principles », Canadian Group for the Study of Parliament, Annual Conference, Ottawa, September 27 2020.
• « The Public-Private Divide in the Common Law Tradition », McGill Law School, Manuscript Workshop , Montreal, September 25 2020.
• « Discretion, Judgement, Human Rights and Front-Line Officials », Runnymede Society, Summer Student Conference, Toronto, August 8 2020.
• « Making Sense of the Making Available Right », Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa,, Ottawa, June 22 2020.
• Paul Daly and David Dyzenhaus , « COVID-19: Emergency Powers and Legal Principle, May 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Free », Centre for Constitutional Studies Online Webinar -- COVID-19: Emergency Powers and Legal Principle, May 20 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Free, May 20, 2020.
• « Plural Public Law », University of Ottawa, Inaugural Lecture of the Chair in Administrative Law & Governance , Ottawa, March 4 2020.
• « The Vavilov Framework and the Future of Canadian Administrative Law », University of Ottawa, Centre for Public Law , Ottawa, January 29 2020.
• « Why Write Statutes Not Everyone Can Read? », Université de Montréal, L’héritage de Pierre Elliott Trudeau/The Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau , Montreal, November 8 2019.
• « The Inevitability of Administrative Discretion and Judgement: Implications for Human Rights », Journal of Commonwealth Law, Université de Montréal, Annual Symposium , Montreal, October 18 2019.
• « A Clash of Norms: Administrative Law and Technology », Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, University of Oxford, Judicial Review in the Digital Age , Oxford, June 3 2019.
• « Artificial Administration: Administrative Justice in the Age of Machines », University of Leeds, Socio-Legal Studies Association, Annual Conference , Leeds, April 4, 2019.
• « Declaratory Relief: What do Recent Decisions from New Zealand and Scotland Teach about the Nature and Scope of the Judicial Function? », University of Cambridge, Centre for Public Law, Brown Bag Seminar Series , Cambridge, March 11 2019.
• « Devolution Jurisprudence in Comparative Perspective », University of Cambridge, Centre for Public Law, Scottish Continuity Reference Panel Discussion , Cambridge, January 28 2019.
• « ‘Taking Back Control’: A Public Lawyer’s Perspective », Queens’ College, Thomas Smith Society , Cambridge, October 22 2018.
• « Three Points on Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147 », University of Cambridge, Centre for Public Law, Ouster Clauses from Enactment to Interpretation: the Privacy International Case , Cambridge, October 20 2018.
• « Substantive Review in Ireland and Beyond: AAA v Minister for Justice in Comparative and Critical Perspective », Trinity College Dublin, Irish Supreme Court Review , Dublin, October 6 2018.
• « The Parole Board of England and Wales: Confidentiality, Standing, Rationality and Independence », University of Cambridge, Centre for Criminal Justice, Parole: Law, Policy and Practice, Cambridge, July 3 2018.
• « The Administrative State Inside and Outside the Courts », University College Dublin, Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics Workshop, Dublin, April 19 2018.
• « Reprendre le contrôle : ironies et ennuis », Université de Montréal, Brexit – faire ou défaire? , Montreal, March 29 2018.
• « Metaphors and Constitutional Change in Canada and the United Kingdom », McGill Law School, Matinées constitutionnelles , Montreal, March 28 2018.
• « Convergence and Divergence in Canadian and English Administrative Law », National University of Singapore, Indigenising Administrative Law , Singapore, December 7 2017.
• « Comparing Canadian and English Administrative Law », University of Cambridge, Centre for Public Law Seminar , Cambridge, November 28 2017.
• « Teaching Bilingual Legislation », La Trobe Law School, Symposium on the Teaching of Legislation, Melbourne, October 26 2017.
• « Public Law in a Complex World », Cambridge Lectures, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, Queens' College, Cambridge, July 6, 2017.
• « Administrative Law Values and the Scope of Judicial Review », Centre for Public Law Seminar , University of Cambridge, February 27, 2017.
• « Theory and Methodology in Public Law: A Comment on Reconstructing Judicial Review », New Faces in Public Law, Centre for Public Law , University of Cambridge, February 21, 2017.
• « Brexit: Legal and Political Faultlines », Cross Border – Brexit, Philippe Kirsch Institute, Toronto, December 14, 2016.
• « Administrative Law: Characteristics, Legitimacy, Unity », Public Law Conference, The Unity of Public Law, University of Cambridge, September 12-14, 2016.
• « Supreme Courts and the Common Law », Supreme Courts and the Common Law, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, May 27, 2016.
• « Best Practices in Administrative Decision-Making: Viewing the Copyright Board of Canada in a Comparative Light », ALAI Canada Conference, Ottawa, May 25, 2016.
• « Le cyberprofesseur », Le juriste idéal… Qui est-il? Comment le forme-t-on?, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, March 18, 2016.
• « Prescribing Surveillance by Law », En 2 mots – droit et tech, Chaire L.R. Wilson, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, March 15, 2016.
• « Section 96: From 1867 to 2017 and Beyond », Canada at 150 Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, December 15, 2015.
• « Stare Decisis in Canadian Administrative Law », National Roundtable on Administrative Law, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Toronto, November 6, 2015.
• « The Language of Administrative Law », Colloque hommage à l'honorable Louis LeBel, Canadian Bar Associatino, Montreal, October 29, 2015.
• « Administrative Law Values : Theory and Methodology », ATLAS Agora, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, June 15, 2015.
• « Équité procédurale : l’heure de la norme de la décision raisonnable », Rencontre annuelle, Division administrative et d’appel, Cour du Québec, Orford, June 9, 2015.
• « Comment : Democracy and Reform in and after the Senate Reference », Symposium on Senate Reform, McGill Law Journal, Faculty of Law, McGill University, January 30, 2015.
• « Le registre des armes d’épaule et le fédéralisme coopératif », Colloque sur le fédéralisme coopératif, Réunion G3, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, November 28, 2014.
• « Pluralisme, déférence et les appels administratifs », Réunion annuelle des juges de la Division administrative et d'appel de la Cour du Québec, Gatineau, November 4, 2014.
• « Administrative Law: A Values-Based Approach », Process and Substance in Public Law, University of Cambridge, September 15-17, 2014.
• « Legal Academia 2.0 », Appointing Supreme Court Judges in the 21st Century: Reflections on the Nadon Reference, University of Ottawa, May 28, 2014.
• « Reply to Justice David Stratas on State Liability », Compensation and the Common Law, Université de Montréal, March 21, 2014.
• « Courts and Copyright: Some Thoughts on Deference in the Copyright Pentalogy », The Copyright Pentalogy Conference, Ottawa , October 4, 2013.
• « La tripolarité du droit administratif canadien », Règlementation et common law, Université de Montréal , May 10, 2013.
• « Prescribing Greater Protection for Fundamental Rights: Revitalizing Section 1 of the Charter », Conference in Honour of Justice Charron, University of Ottawa , March 22, 2013.
• « La destruction des données du registre des armes d’épaule : le droit criminel et le fédéralisme coopératif », Seminaires en droit public, Université de Montréal , 2012.
• « Réflexions auprès de la justification de propriété privée provoqués par The Field », Seminaires en droit privé, Université de Montréal, November 5, 2012.
• « The Strange Parochialism of Living Originalism », Constitutional Law Seminar Series, University College Cork , October 30, 2012.
• « Some Principles of Institutional Design: Considerations for Administrative Lawyers », Guest Lecture, University College Cork, October 30, 2012.
• « Standard of Review in the Copyright Cases », Invited Scholar Series, Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP , July 14, 2012.
• « Property Law and Literature », University of Ottawa Enrichment Seminar Series, November 8, 2010.
• « The Theoretical Basis of Deference in Administrative Law », Visiting Scholars Colloquium, Harvard Law School, February 10, 2010.
• « ‘Jurisdiction’ and ‘Law’ in Judicial Review », Graduate Workshop Series, University of Cambridge Centre for Public Law, March 22, 2009.
• « Judicial Review and ‘Political Questions’ », Effective Judicial Review: a Cornerstone of Good Governance, University of Cambridge Centre for Public Law and Faculty of Law Chinese University of Hong Kong, December 10, 2008.
• « Would it be Impolitic to Kill off the ‘Political Question’ doctrine? », Graduate Workshop Series, University of Cambridge Centre for Public Law , November 3, 2008.
• « Blown Out of All Proportion: the Case against Proportionality as an Independent Head of Review », International Graduate Conference, King’s College, London, June 20, 2008.
• « Justiciability and Judicial Review in Ireland », Postgraduate Conference, University College Cork Centre for Human Rights and Criminal Justice, April 18, 2008.
• « Mountains or Molehills: the Scope of Fundamental Rights in Administrative Law », Human Rights Forum, University of Cambridge, March 24, 2008.
• « The Theoretical Case for Curial Deference », Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Conference, University of Aberdeen, January 21, 2008.
• « Some Problems of Jurisdiction », Law Faculty Staff-Student Seminar, University College Cork, April 30, 2005.

Continuing professional development

• « Annual Update on Administrative Law », Ontario Bar Association, Administrative Law Section, November 22 2022.
• « Cabinet Confidences in Exceptional Circumstances », Osgoode Professional Development, 17th Annual National Forum on Administrative Law and Practice , October 19 2022.
• « Life after Vavilov? », CLEBC, Administrative Law Conference , November 18 2021.
• « Annual Update on Administrative Law », Ontario Bar Association, Administrative Law Section , October 18 2021.
• « Vavilov on the Road », Osgoode Professional Development, 16th Annual National Forum on Administrative Law and Practice , October 5 2021.
• « The Supreme Court of Canada’s Public-Private Divide (and How to Dismantle It) », Osgoode Professional Development, Good Faith in Contract Law , September 20 2021.
• « Artificial Intelligence in Administrative Decision-Making », Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Legislative Drafting Webinar , May 17 2021.
• « Uncooperative Federalism », Torys LLP, Breakfast with Appeal , May 12 2021.
• « Pandemics, Precaution and the Courts », Osgoode Professional Development, 15th Annual National Forum on Administrative Law and Practice , October 7 2020.
• « The New Landscape of Judicial Review », Law Society of Prince Edward Island, Webinar, June 26 2020.
• Paul Daly, « Vavilov: Où en sommes-nous, six mois plus tard? », L'institut canadien de l'administration de la justice, Webinaires sur le droit administratif, May 26, 2020.
• Paul Daly, « Six Months of Vavilov: Where Are We Now? », Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Administrative Law Webinar Series, May 25, 2020.
• « Are Courts Too Lenient on Public Bodies? », Young Public Lawyers Group, Administrative Law Event, London, June 4 2019.
• « Public Law Update: England and Wales », Public Law Group (Scotland), Annual Conference, Edinburgh, June 11 2018.
• « Why Do Immigration Lawyers Dislike Deference? », Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 16 2017.
• « The Signal and the Noise in Administrative Law », Prince Edward Island Administrative and Employment Law Section, Canadian Bar Association, Charlottetown, December 14, 2016.
• « The Signal and the Noise in Administrative Law », Immigration Summit, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, November 23, 2016.
• Paul Daly, Sarah Barrère, « Brexit : Analyse juridique », Brexit : Analyse juridique, Salon François-Chevrette, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal, April 20, 2016.
• « Update on Administrative Law », 11th Annual National Forum on Administrative Law and Practice, Osgoode Professional Development, Toronto, November 30, 2015.
• « Annual Update on Judicial Review », Annual Conference, Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators, Toronto, November 5, 2015.
• « Stratas and Daly Annual Update on Judicial Review », Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, October 28, 2015.
• « Attaquer une décision en révision judiciaire », Colloque annuel, Association du jeune barreau de Montréal, May 28, 2015.
• « Mise à jour en droit administratif », Association du Barreau canadien, colloque annuel en droit administratif , March 12, 2015.
• « Future Issues in Judicial Review », Dealing Effectively With Judicial Review, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Banff , January 23, 2015.
• « Reasoned Decisions: Attacking and Defending the Record on Judicial Review », Canadian Bar Association, Administrative Law, Labour and Employment Law Annual Conference, Ottawa, November 29, 2014.
• « Annual Update on Judicial Review », Ontario Bar Association, Toronto, November 13, 2014.
• « Attaquer une décision en révision judiciaire », L’institut canadien, Formation avancée sur le droit administratif, Montréal, June 11, 2014.
• « 2013-2014: Administrative Law’s Best and Worst », Law Society of Upper Canada: the Six-Minute Lawyer, Toronto, March 20, 2014.
• « 2013: the Year of the Record », The Canadian Institute’s 13th Annual Advanced Administrative Law and Practice Programme, Ottawa, October 29, 2013.
• « Annual Update on Developments in Administrative Law », Ontario Bar Association, Administrative Law Section, Toronto, October 24, 2013.
• « Revue annuelle de droit administratif », Association du barreau canadien, Montréal et Québec , May 17, 2013.

Judicial and administrative training

• « The Rise of Facts in Public Law », Federal Court of Canada, Clerks’ Invited Speaker Series, Ottawa, May 3 2022.
• « Administrative Law Update », National Judicial Institute, Atlantic Judges Seminar , November 4 2021.
• « The Vavilov Framework: How we Got Here and Where to Go From Here », Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Judicial Seminar on Administrative Law, November 26 2020.
• « Vavilov at 1,000 », Atlantic Appellate Courts, Annual Training Seminar , October 1 2020.
• « Artificial Administration in Canada », Federal Court of Appeal, Annual Training Seminar, September 30 2020.
• « The Vavilov Framework in the Federal Courts », Federal Court of Canada, Lunch and Learn Seminar Series, Ottawa, January 10 2020.
• « Artificial Administration: Administrative Law and Administrative Justice in the Age of Machines », Federal Court of Canada, Annual Education Seminar, Kingston, September 26 2019.
• « Ten Years of Dunsmuir: What Next? », Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Advanced Judicial Seminar on Administrative Law, June 1 2018.
• « Enforcement of Public Law Norms in the Common Law Tradition », Centre for Public Law, Symposium for Delegation of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the People’s National Congress of the People’s Republic of China, Cambridge, October 20 2017.
• « The Basics of Bias », Veterans' Review and Appeal Board, Ottawa, March 17, 2016.
• « Process, Substance, Deference », Annual Conference, Immigration and Refugee Board, Montreal, March 8, 2016.
• « Administrative Law in Quebec and Canada », Appellate Judges’ Conference, National Judicial Institute, Toronto, January 26, 2016.
• « Towards Coherence in Canadian Administrative Law? », Federal Court of Appeal Annual Seminar, National Judicial Institute, Montebello, October 22, 2015.
• « Towards Coherence in Canadian Administrative Law? », Federal Court Annual Seminar, National Judicial Institute, Mont Tremblant, September 30, 2015.
• « Les normes de révision administrative et d’appel », Transportation Appeals Tribunal of Canada, Annual Conference, Ottawa, October 22, 2014.
• « Internal Appellate Review: the Role of the Refugee Appeal Division », Immigration and Refugee Board Professional Development Seminar, Montréal, July 31, 2013.
• « Canada’s Least Wanted: The Two Perspectives of the Administrative Lawyer », Justice Canada Staff Seminar Series, Department of Justice, Montréal, January 17, 2013.
• « Justiciability and Deference in Administrative and Constitutional Law », Justice Canada Staff Seminar Series, Department of Justice, Ottawa, 2012.

Parliamentary Submissions

• « Submissions to Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs re Modifications to the Supreme Court Act », Senate of Canada, Ottawa, November 21, 2013.