Publications

Books

• A Culture of Justification: Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law (UBC Press, Vancouver, 2023)
• Paul Daly & Joe Tomlinson eds., Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems (Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 2023)
• Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021)
• Paul Daly & Colleen Flood eds., Administrative Law in Context, 4th ed. (Emond Montgomery, Toronto, 2021)
• Paul Daly, Gerard Hogan & David Morgan, Administrative Law in Ireland, 5th ed. (Roundhall, Dublin, 2019)
• Paul Daly ed., Apex Courts and the Common Law (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019)
• Richard Albert, Paul Daly & Vanessa Macdonnell eds., The Canadian Constitution in Transition (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019)
• Paul Daly & Leonid Sirota eds., The Dunsmuir Decade/Les 10 ans de Dunsmuir (Carswell, Toronto, 2018)
• Torts: Text and Cases (Editions JFD, Montreal, 2015)
• Paul Daly et al, Thema - Contrôle Judiciaire, LexisNexis, Toronto, 2014
• Joseph Robertson, Peter Gall and Paul Daly, Judicial Deference to Administrative Tribunals in Canada: its History and Future, LexisNexis Canada, Toronto, 2014
• A Theory of Deference in Administrative Law : Foundations, Application and Scope (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012) PDF
• Gerard Hogan and David Morgan (with Paul Daly), Administrative Law in Ireland, 4th ed., Roundhall, Dublin, 2010

Book chapters

• “Administrative Law in the Digital World” in Carol Harlow ed., Research Handbook on Administrative Law (Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 2023) 255-279 co-author with Joe Tomlinson and Jennifer Raso
• « L’éthique des procédures contentieuses au Canada dans l’ère de la COVID-19 » dans Raphaël Maurel dir., L’adaptation des procédures contentieuses en temps de pandémie : Comparaison internationale et limites éthiques (Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2022) 87-100
• “Facticity: Judicial Review of Factual Error in Comparative Perspective” in Peter Cane, Eric Ip, Herwig Hoffman and Peter Lindseth eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021) 901-916
• “The Administrative State and the Courts” in David Farrell and Niamh Howlin eds., Oxford Handbook of Irish Politics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021) 264-280
• “The Federal Court of Canada and Administrative Law” in Craig Forcese et al eds., The Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal: 50 Years of History (Irwin Law, Toronto, 2021) 267-294, co-author with Vincent-Alexandre Fournier
• “Introduction: Mapping the Complex World of Administrative Law” in Paul Daly and Colleen Flood eds., Administrative Law in Context, 4^th ed. (Emond Montgomery, Toronto, 2021) 1-38, co-author with Colleen Flood
• “Big Bang Theory: Vavilov’s New Framework for Administrative Law” in Paul Daly and Colleen Flood eds., Administrative Law in Context, 4^th ed. (Emond Montgomery, Toronto, 2021) 327-352
• “Divergence and Convergence in English and Canadian Administrative Law” in Michael Ramsden and Swati Jhaveri eds., Judicial Review Across the Common Law World: Origins and Adaptations (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021) 138-156
• “The Constitutionalisation of English Judicial Review in Ireland: Continuity and Change” in Michael Ramsden and Swati Jhaveri eds. Judicial Review Across the Common Law World: Origins and Adaptations (Cambridge, University Press, Cambridge, 2021) 98-114
• “Governmental Power and Covid-19: The Limits of Judicial Review” in Colleen Flood, Vanessa MacDonnell, Jane Philpott, Sophie Theriault, and Sridhar Venkatapuram. eds., Vulnerable: The Law, Policy & Ethics of COVID-19 (University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, 2020) PDFHTML
• "Introduction: Apex Courts from Bottom to Top" in Paul Daly ed., Apex Courts and the Common Law (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019)
• “Section 96: Striking a Balance between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism” in Richard Albert, Paul Daly and Vanessa MacDonnell eds., The Canadian Constitution in Transition (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019) 84-102
• “Introduction: The Constitution in a New Key” in Richard Albert, Paul Daly and Vanessa MacDonnell eds., The Canadian Constitution in Transition (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019) 3-18, co-author with Richard Albert and Vanessa MacDonnell
• "La bonne foi et la common law : l'arrêt Bhasin c. Hrynew" in Jéremie Torres-Ceyte ed., Le(s) dialogue(s) en droit civil (Éditions Thémis, Montreal, 2018) 90-107
• "Administrative Law: Characteristics, Legitimacy, Unity" in Mark Elliott, Jason Varuhas and Shona Stark eds., The Unity of Public Law? Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2018) 99-119
• "The Court and Administrative Law: Models of Rights Protection" in Matthew Harrington ed., The Court and the Constitution: A 150-Year Retrospective (LexisNexis, Toronto, 2017)
• "A Pluralist Account of Deference and Legitimate Expectations" in Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks eds., Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2017), 101-120
• "A Pluralist Account of Deference and Legitimate Expectations", in Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks eds., Legitimate Expectations in the Common Law World (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016)
• "Administrative Law: A Values-Based Approach", in John Bell, Mark Elliott, Jason Varuhas and Philip Murray eds., Public Law Adjudication in Common Law Systems: Process and Substance (Hart, Oxford, 2016) HTML
• "The Struggle for Deference in Canada" in Mark Elliott and Hanna Wilberg eds., The Scope and Intensity of Substantive Review: Traversing Taggart’s Rainbow, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2015 HTML
• "The Policy/Operational Distinction – a View from Administrative Law" in Matthew Harrington ed., Compensation and the Common Law, LexisNexis, Toronto, 2015
• "Courts and Copyright: Some Thoughts on Standard of Review" in Michael Geist ed., The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law , University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, 2013 PDF
• "Le contrôle de la légalité de l’administration",dans JurisClasseur Québec, coll. « Droit public », Droit administratif, fasc.11, Montréal, LexisNexis Canada, 2013
• "Blown Out of All Proportion: the Case Against Proportionality as an Independent Head of Review" in Cian C. Murphy and Penny Green eds., Law and Outsiders: Norms, Processes and ‘Othering’ in the Twenty-First Century, Hart, Oxford, 2011

Articles

• “The Administrative State after the Carbon Tax References” (2022) 26 Review of Constitutional Studies 33-60
• “Unresolved Issues after Vavilov” (2022) 85 Saskatchewan Law Review 89-118
• “Appellate Standard of Review in Public Law Cases” [2021] Public Law 334-355
• “The State of the Art in Contemporary Administrative Law” (2021) 28 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 20-27
• “A Critical Analysis of the Case of Prorogations” (2021) 7 Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law 256-292
• “The Effect of Declarations of Unconstitutionality in Canada” (2021) 42 National Journal of Constitutional Law 25-61, co-author with Jeremy Opolsky, Jake Babad and Julie Lowenstein
• “The Generation and Guardianship of Constitutional Principles” (2021) 51 Revue générale de droit 173-203
• “Canadian Labour Law after Vavilov” (2021) 23 Canadian Journal of Labour and Employment Law 103-120
• “The Supreme Court of Canada’s Administrative Law Trilogy” [2020] Public Law 408-415
• “Plural Public Law” (2020) 51 Ottawa Law Review 396-416
• “The Inevitability of Discretion and Judgement in Front-Line Decision-Making in the Administrative State” (2020) 2 Journal of Commonwealth Law 100-136
• “Why Write Statutes Which Some People Cannot Read?” (2020) 99 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 409-426
• “Vavilov and the Culture of Justification in Contemporary Administrative Law” (2020) 100 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 279-307
• "A Typology of Materiality" (2019) 26 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 1
• "Updating the Procedural Law of Judicial Review of Administrative Action" (2018) 51 University of British Columbia Law Review 705-737
• "Reprendre le contrôle : ironies et ennuis" (2018) 51 Revue juridique Thémis 159-188
• "Miller: Legal and Political Fault Lines" [2017] Public Law (special issue) 73-93
• "The Signal and the Noise in Administrative Law" (2017) 68 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 68-86
• "Royal Treatment: The Special Status of the Crown in Administrative Law" (2017) 22 Review of Constitutional Studies 81
• "The Language of Administrative Law" (2016) 94 Canadian Bar Review 519
• "The Principle of Stare Decisis in Canadian Administrative Law" (2016) 49 Revue juridique Thémis 757
• "A Supreme Court's Place in the Constitutional Order – Contrasting Recent Experiences in Canada and the United Kingdom" (2015) 41 Queen's Law Journal 1 (winner of the David Watson Memorial Prize for best contribution to legal literature in 2015) PDF
• "Legal Academia 2.0: New and Old Models of Academic Engagement and Influence" (2015) 20(1) Lex Electronica 39 PDF
• « Les appels administratifs au Canada » (2015) 93 Canadian Bar Review 71
• "The Scope and Meaning of Reasonableness Review" (2015) 52 Alberta Law Review 799
• "Unreasonable Interpretations of Law" (2014) 66 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 233 PDF
• "Dismantling Regulatory Structures: Canada's Long-Gun Registry as Case Study" (2014) 22 National Journal of Constitutional Law 169 PDF
• "Canada's Bi-Polar Administrative Law: Time for Fusion" (2014) 40(1) Queen's Law Journal 213 (winner of the David Watson Memorial Prize for best contribution to legal literature in 2014)
• "Prescribing Greater Protection for Rights : Administrative Law and Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms" (2014) 65 Supreme Court Law Review 247 PDF
• "Furthering Substantive Equality through Administrative Law : Charter Values in Education" (2013) 63 Supreme Court Law Review 169 (co-author with Angela Cameron) PDF
• "Dunsmuir’s Flaws Exposed: Recent Decisions on Standard of Review" (2012) 58 McGill Law Journal 483 DOI 10.7202/1017521arPDF
• "The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law" (2012) 50 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317 PDF
• "Deference on Questions of Law" (2011) 74 Modern Law Review 694 (Winner of the Wedderburn Prize 2011) PDF
• "Wednesbury’s Reason and Structure" [2011] Public Law 237
• "Standards of Review in Irish Administrative Law after Meadows" (2010) 32 Dublin University Law Journal 379 PDF
• "Justiciability and the ‘Political Question’ Doctrine" [2010] Public Law 160
• "Judicial Review of Factual Error in Ireland" (2008) 30 Dublin University Law Journal 187
• "Judicial Review and ‘Political Questions’ in Ireland" (2008) (2) Judicial Studies Institute Journal 116 PDF
• "Judicial Review of Errors of Law in Ireland" (2006) xli Irish Jurist 60

Reviews and Others

• “Future Directions in Standard of Review in Canadian Administrative Law: Substantive Review and Procedural Fairness” (2023) 36 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 69-89
• « La déférence, le contrôle judiciaire et la pandémie: mise en scène pour un débat concernant le couvre-feu Québécois » (2022) 24 Éthique publique
• “Firming Up Judicial Review of Soft Law” (2022) Cambridge Law Journal 8-11
• “Vavilov On the Road” (2022) 35 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 1-25
• “Patent Unreasonableness After Vavilov” (2021) 34 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 167-178
• “Waiting for Godot: Canadian Administrative Law in 2019” (2020) 33 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 1-49
• “The Vavilov Framework and the Future of Canadian Administrative Law” (2020) 33 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 111-144
• "Doubts about Deference" (2019) 32 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 137
• “The Limits of Public Law: J.W. v. Canada (Attorney General), 2019 SCC 20” (2019) 32 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 231-236
• “Parliamentary Sovereignty and Intergovernmental Agreements: Reference re Pan-Canadian Securities Regulation, 2018 SCC 48” (2019) 32 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 57-62
• “Right and Wrong on the Scope of Judicial Review: Wall v Highwood Congregation” (2018) 31 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 333-339
• “Reasons and Reasonableness in Administrative Law: Delta Air Lines Inc. v Lukacs” (2018) 31 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 209-216
• "Brewing Up Reasons" (2017), 76 Cambridge Law Journal 11
• Review of Complexity’s Embrace: the International Law Implications of Brexit (2018) 73 International Journal 635-638
• Review of Administrative Law from the Inside Out: Essays on Themes in the Work of Jerry L. Mashaw (2018) 78 Cambridge Law Journal 644-647
• "Procedure, Values and the Conceptual Unity of Administrative Law" in Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas, Public Law, 3rd ed. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017)
• Robert Leckey, Bills of Rights in the Common Law (2016), 79 Modern Law Review 1147
• Best Practices in Administrative Decision-Making: Viewing the Copyright Board of Canada in a Comparative Light, a report prepared for Canadian Heritage and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
• "Constituting Canada",The New Rambler Review, December 23, 2015
• "L’abolition du registre des armes d’épaule : le rôle potentiel des principes non écrits" (2014), 23(4) Constitutional Forum 41
• "Reviewing Britain’s Tribunal System" (2013), 72 Cambridge Law Journal 494
• Eoin Carolan ed., The Constitution of Ireland : Perspectives and Prospects, (2013), 72 Cambridge Law Journal 451
• "Cognitive Tics of the Herd" Review of Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Too Big to Fail" (2010), 13 Dublin Review of Books
• Oran Doyle and Eoin Carolan eds., The Irish Constitution : Governance and Values (2009), 68 Cambridge Law Journal 659

Opinion pieces

• Paul Daly, Administrative Law Blog, "Voidness and Voidability", March 3, 2017
• Paul Daly, Montreal Gazette, "Quebecers shouldn't lose sight of Charbonneau commission recommendations", December 21, 2015
• Paul Daly, Policy options politiques, "Les juges de Stephen Harper :  des conservateurs « fiables »?", 5 octobre, 2015
• Paul Daly, International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, "Cooperative Federalism Divides the Supreme Court of Canada: Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canada (Attorney General)", March 30, 2015
• Paul Daly, Ottawa Citizen, "The gun registry test of federalism", October 8, 2014
• Paul Daly, Ottawa Citizen, "Fall-Out from the Nadon decision" , May 22, 2014
• Paul Daly, UK Constitutional Law Group Blog , "Taking Statutes Seriously" , July 26, 2012
• Paul Daly, Montreal Gazette, "Appeal Court Erred with Registry" , July 2, 2013
• Paul Daly, UK Constitutional Law Group Blog , "Death, Democracy and Delegation" , May 14, 2013
• Paul Daly, Human Rights in Ireland Blog, "Guidelines and Assisted Suicide", April 29, 2013
• Paul Daly, National Post , "Supreme Court not likely to entertain an appeal after Rob Ford wins his appeal on a ‘technicality’" , January 25, 2013
• Paul Daly, National Post, "Divisional Court Should Overturn Flawed Rob Ford Decision" , December 12, 2012
• Paul Daly, UK Constitutional Law Group Blog, "Clinging to Gun Data" , November 22, 2012
• Paul Daly, Human Rights in Ireland Blog , "Referendum-itis" , July 18, 2012