David Dyzenhaus

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy

Professor of Law and Philosophy

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1.

The Grudge Informer Case Revisited

New York University Law Review, Vol. 83, 2008
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Aug 2012
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Schmitt V. Dicey: Are States of Emergency Inside or Outside the Legal Order?

Cardozo Law Review, Vol 27, p. 2005, 2006
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Why Positivism is Authoritarian

American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 37, p. 83, 1992
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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'Now the Machine Runs Itself': Carl Schmiit on Hobbes and Kelsen

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 16, p. 1, 1994
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Hobbes's Constitutional Theory

in Ian Shapiro, ed., Leviathan: Or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010) 453-480
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 04 Feb 2013
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Humpty Dumpty Rules or the Rule of Law: Legal Theory and the Adjudication of National Security

Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 26 Jul 2002
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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rule of law, terrorism, national security, judicial review, legal positivism

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Dignity in Administrative Law: Judicial Deference in a Culture of Justification

23rd McDonald Lecture, 2011
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Mar 2012
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Rethinking the Process/Substance Distinction: Baker V. Canada

David Dyzenhaus, Evan Fox-Decent RETHINKING THE PROCESS/SUBSTANCE DISTINCTION BAKER V. CANADA, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 193-242, 2001
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2015
David Dyzenhaus and Evan Fox-Decent
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy and McGill University - Faculty of Law
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judicial review, process, substance, human rights, fundamental values, best interests of children, convention on the rights of the child, immigration, rule of law, principle of legality

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The Rule of (Administrative) Law in International Law

NYLS Institute for International Law and Justice Paper No. 2005/1
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Apr 2005
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Administrative Law

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Judicial Independence, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law

"JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW", Otago Law Review, Vol. 345, No. 10, 2003
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Jun 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Kelsen’s Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of International Law

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 May 2020
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Kelsen, Hart, international law, philosophy of law, monism, dualism

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Freedom Under an Order of Public Law: From Hobbes Through Hayek to Republicanism

The Tragedy of Liberty, Andras Sajo and Renata Uitz, eds., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Feb 2013
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Hobbes, Hayek, Republicanism, liberty, freedom

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Constituting the Rule of Law: Fundamental Values in Administrative Law

(2002) 27 Queen’s Law Journal 445-509
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 17 May 2013
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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The End of the Road to Serfdom?

University of Toronto Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 31 Mar 2012
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Public Law, Rule of Law, Rechtsstaat, ius, lex, legal positivism, constituent power

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The Unwritten Constitution and the Rule of Law

in Grant Huscroft and I. Brodie, eds., Constitutionalism in the Charter Era, (Canada: LexisNexis, 2004) 383-412
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 May 2013
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Constitutional interpretation, common law, judicial independence, deference

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Constituting the Enemy: A Response to Carl Schmitt

in A Sajo, ed., Militant Democracy (The Netherlands: Eleven International Publishing, 2004) 15-45.
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Feb 2013
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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The Deep Structure of Roncarelli V. Duplessis

University of New Brunswick Law Journal, Vol. 53, p. 111, 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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The Left and the Question of Law

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The Left and the Question of Law

Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Vol. 17, No. 1, p. 7, January 2004
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Jul 2010
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Social Democracy, Martin Loughlin, Carl Schmitt, Liberalism

The Left and the Question of Law

Posted: 12 Apr 2004
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy

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Social democracy, Martin Loughlin, Carl Schmitt, liberalism

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Law and Public Reason

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 38, p. 367, 1993
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Not an Isolated, Exceptional, and Indeed Contradictory Branch of Jurisprudence

Philosophical Foundations of Private International Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Nov 2020
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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private international law, public policy exception, philosophy of law, Hart, Kelsen

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Democracy, Rights, and the Law

South African Journal on Human Rights, Vol. 7, p. 24, 1991
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Legal Theory and the Politics of Legal Space

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jun 2020
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Dual State, Rule of Law, Philosophy of Law, HLA Hart, Lon Fuller, Ernst Fraenkel

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Regulating Free Speech

Ottawa Law Review, Vol. 23, p. 219, 1991
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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The Old Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

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The Old Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

LSE Legal Studies Working Paper No. 11/2023
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Apr 2023
David Dyzenhaus and Thomas M. Poole
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy and London School of Economics - Law School
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comparative constitutional law, constitutionalism, commonwealth, sovereignty, legal history, South Africa, voting rights

The Old Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

Comparative Constitutional Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Mar 2023
David Dyzenhaus and Thomas M. Poole
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy and London School of Economics - Law School
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Comparative constitutional law, Sovereignty, Kelsen, Hart, Constitutionalism, Latham

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The Difference Law Makes - Review Article of Abel, Politics By Other Means and Lobban, White Man's Justice

Modern Law Review, Vol. 60, p. 866, 1997
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Aug 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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'Immanentizing the Eschaton': Eric Voegelin, Hans Kelsen, and the Debate over Secular Religion

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Oct 2022
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Kelsen, Voegelin, fascism, racism, liberalism, illiberal democracy

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Rand’s Legal Republicanism

McGill Law Journal, Vol. 55, 2010, 491-510
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Aug 2012
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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Exemplary but not Canonical: The South African Voters’ Rights Cases

S. Choudhry, M. Hailbronner & M. Kumm, eds., Global Canons in an Age of Uncertainty: Debating Foundational Texts of Constitutional Democracy and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Nov 2020
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy
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constitutional canon, exemplary, political identity, apartheid, divided societies

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Constitutionalism in an Old Key: Legality and Constituent Power

Global Constitutionalism (2012), 1:2, 229-260
Posted: 12 Jun 2012
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy

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constitutional theory, legal theory

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Are Legislatures Good at Morality? Or Better at it than the Courts?

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 46-52, 2009
Posted: 17 Jan 2009
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy

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The Genealogy of Legal Positivism

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 24, pp. 39-67, 2004
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy

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The Permanence of the Temporary - Can Emergency Powers Be Normalized?

Posted: 17 Feb 2002
David Dyzenhaus
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law/Department of Philosophy

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