This is part two of my piece on Justice Morissette Au cœur de la thèse Morissettienne est la décision de la Cour suprême du Canada dans SCFP,[1] dont l’importance fondamentale est la reconnaissance formelle du caractère essentiellement indéterminée du droit statutaire. Cependant, pour bien saisir la pertinence de la décision, il faut connaître un peu […] Read more

This Fall I am teaching a new course on advanced administrative law at the University of Ottawa. Here is the overview and course outline. Advanced Administrative Law (The Law of Economic Regulation) Paul Daly Fall 2026 Overview Students in this course learn the legal principles relating to the regulation of economic activity in Canada. We […] Read more

I had the distinct pleasure of presenting a paper last month in honour of Justice Morissette, latterly of the Quebec Court of Appeal and for many years a professor (and then dean) at McGill’s Faculty of Law. I am going to reproduce the paper in four parts here: the introduction (in this post) and then […] Read more

I am looking forward very much to a trip to South Africa next week for the Public Law Conference this year on the theme of Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy. My paper is on “An Institutional Approach to Judicial Independence and Accountability”: My goal in this contribution is to set out and defend […] Read more