Paul Daly

Paul Daly joined the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) at the University of Ottawa in July 2019, where he was named to the University Research Chair in Administrative Law & Governance.

Professor Daly's award-winning scholarship in the broad field of public law (especially administrative law) has appeared in leading academic journals and edited collections.

Dozens of his publications, including posts on his blog Administrative Law Matters, havebeen cited more than 150 times by courts around the common law world, in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel and New Zealand.

Fluent in English and French, he is a regular speaker at academic conferences, judicial and administrative training seminars and continuing legal education events from coast to coast to coast.

He has also appeared in both official languages as counsel at all levels of court across Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in precedent-setting cases in public law.

Prior to his appointment at uOttawa, Professor Daly was a faculty member at the University of Cambridge and the Université de Montréal and has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School (visiting researcher), Université Paris II -- Panthéon-Assas (visiting professor), Louvain Global College of Law (visiting fellow), Trinity College Dublin (visiting fellow) and the Law Reform Commission of Ireland (scholar-in-residence).

Since September 1, 2019, he has served as a part-time member of the Environmental Protection Tribunal of Canada. 

A Culture of Justification: Vavilov and the Future of Administrative Law (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2023)

Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2023), co-editor, with Joe Tomlinson

Administrative Law in Context (4th ed., Emond Montgomery, Toronto, 2021), co-editor, with Colleen Flood

Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 2021)

Apex Courts and the Common Law (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019)

"The Doré Duty: Fundamental Rights in Public Administration” (2023) 101
Canadian Bar Review 297

"How Binding  are Binding Guidelines? An Analytical Framework” (2023) 66
Canadian Public Administration 211

"Appellate Standard of Review in Public Law Cases” [2021] Public Law 334

"The Vavilov Framework and the Future of Canadian Administrative Law” (2020) 33 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 111

“A Typology of Materiality” (2019) 26 Australian Journal of Administrative Law 134-144

A Theory of Deference in Administrative Law: Basis, Application and Scope (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012)

The Canadian Constitution in Transition (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019) (co-editor, with Richard Albert and Vanessa MacDonnell)

The Dunsmuir Decade/Les 10 ans de Dunsmuir (2018) Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice (co-editor, with Léonid Sirota)

« Reprendre le contrôle : ironies et ennuis » (2018) 51 Revue juridique Thémis 159-188

“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

“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

“Administrative Law: A Values-Based Approach” in John Bell, Mark Elliott, Jason Varuhas and Philip Murray eds., Public Law Adjudication in the Common Law World: Process and Substance (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016), 23-44

“The Language of Administrative Law” (2016) 94 Canadian Bar Review 519-544

“Deference on Questions of Law” (2011) 74 Modern Law Review 694-720