A Culture of Justification

A Culture of Justification examines how a groundbreaking case involving undercover spies and a man’s fight for citizenship helped the Supreme Court of Canada forge a consensus on the future of one of the most important areas in Canadian law.

Paul Daly holds the University Research Chair in Administrative Law and Governance at the University of Ottawa. He previously held academic appointments at the Université de Montréal and the University of Cambridge and has visited at Harvard Law School, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, and Louvain Global College of Law. He is an award-winning scholar whose bilingual research has appeared in many leading journals and edited collections and is frequently cited by courts across the common law world. Notable books include A Theory of Deference in Administrative Law: Basis, Application and Scope (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Professor Daly successfully makes the case that Vavilov has provided significant clarity to the judicial review process.

Dustin Kenall:

"A comprehensive exegesis of the principles, core concepts, history, and (predicted) future of Canadian administrative law, with a focus on standard of review."

Martine Valois, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal:

I have been reading Paul Daly’s work for almost a decade, and this is one of the most important books he has written. It is a perfect, comprehensive account of Canadian administrative law.