Professor David Dyzenhaus

By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates

Professor David Dyzenhaus

  • 1957: Born Johannesburg
  • 1977 BA: University of the Witwatersrand
  • 1979 LLB: University of the Witwatersrand
  • 1982-83: Lecturer in Law, University of the Witwatersrand
  • 1984-88: D.Phil Oxford
  • 1984-85: Part-time Lecturer University College London
  • 1986-87: Part-time Lecturer Queen Mary College London
  • 1987-88: Part-time Lecturer University College London
  • 1988-89: Adjunct Professor in Law, Philosophy & Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
  • 1989-90: Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
  • 1990-93: Assistant Professor, Department of Law, University of Toronto
  • 1992-93: Humbolt Fellow, University of Heidelberg
  • 1993-98: Associate Professor Department of Law, University of Toronto
  • 1998-present: Professor of Law, Department of Law, University of Toronto
  • 2006: Herbert Smith Visiting Fellow, Pembroke College Cambridge
  • 2014-15: Goodhart Visiting Professor, Cambridge

Awards

  • 1991: SSHRC Grant, German legal philosophy during Weimar
  • 1992: Humboldt Research Fellowship
  • 1994: SSHRC Grant, for completion of research on German legal philosophy during Weimar, and to start project on democratic theory and the law
  • 1997: Connaught Research Fellowship. SSHRC Grant, Administrative Law
  • 1998: Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
  • 1999: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
  • 2001: SSHRC Grant, Rule of Law.
  • 2002: Law Foundation Fellow, University of Auckland
  • 2007: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Grant Cycles of Legality
  • 2010: Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professorship in Legal Science, Cambridge University 2014-15