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Books and Edited Collections
- Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); 2nd edition as Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: Pathologies of Legality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
- A Simple Common Lawyer: Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart (David Dyzenhaus, Murray Hunt, and Grant Huscroft, eds.) (Hart, 2009)
- The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
- Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations and the Chinese Head Tax (edited with Mayo Moran) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005).
- The Unity of Public Law, edited collection, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004).
- Law and Morality: Readings in Legal Philosophy, (edited with Arthur Ripstein) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996; 2nd edition, 2001, 3rd edition with Sophia Moreau, 2007).
- Recrafting the Rule of Law: The Limits of Legal Order, edited collection (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1999).
- Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1998).
- Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998) [with a new introduction by David Dyzenhaus and a preface by Ronald Beiner].
- Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller in Weimar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
- Carl Schmitt, edited collection of essays in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence X (1997).
Articles in Books
- "The Incoherence of Constitutional Positivism", in Grant Huscroft, ed., Cambridge [forthcoming]
- "Leviathan as a Theory of Transitional Justice", in Melissa Williams and Jon Elster, eds., Nomos volume on transitional justice [forthcoming].
- "The 'Organic Law' of Ex Parte Milligan", 59 pages in manuscript, to appear in a Cambridge University volume edited by Austin Sarat, Sovereignty, Emergency, Legality.
- "Preventive Justice and the Rule of Law Project", in Andrew Ashworth, Lucia Zedner,and Patrick Tomlin, eds., Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 91-114.
- "States of Emergency", in Michel Rosenfeld and Andras Sajo, eds., Oxford Handbook on Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) 442-462.
- "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.
- "The Legitimacy of the Rule of Law", in David Dyzenhaus, Murray Hunt, and Grant Huscroft, eds., A Simple Common Lawyer: Essays in Honour of Michael Taggart (Hart, 2009) 33-54.
- "The Compulsion of Legality", in Victor Ramraj, ed., Emergencies and the Limits of Legality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) 31-59.
- "The Politics of the Question of Constituent Power", in Martin Loughlin and Neil Walker, ed., The Paradox of Constitutionalism: Constituent Power and Constitutional Form (Oxford University Press, 2008) 129-45.
- "States of Emergency" in Robert E Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas Pogge, eds., A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 2007) volume 2, 804-12.
- "Deference, Security and Human Rights" co-authored with Murray Hunt, in Ben Goold and Liora Lazarus, eds., Security and Human Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007) 125-56.
- "Reasoned Decisions in Legal Theory" co-authored with Mike Taggart, in D Edlin, ed., Common Law Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) 134-167.
- "David Mullan's Theory of the Rule of Law" in Grant Huscroft and Mike Taggart, eds., Inside and Outside Canadian Administrative Law: Essays in Honour of David Mullan (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) 448-84.
- "Disobeying Parliament? Privative Clauses and the Rule of Law" in Richard W. Bauman and Tsvi Kahana, eds., The Least Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in the Constitutional State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) 499-518.
- "The State of Emergency in Legal Theory" in Victor V. Ramraj, Michael Hor, and Kent Roach, eds., Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) 65-89.
- "The Dilemma of Legality and the Moral Limits of Law", in Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Marthaf Merrill Umphrey, eds., The Limits of Law (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005) 109-154.
- "The Juristic Force of Injustice", in Dyzenhaus and Moran, eds., Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations and the Chinese Head Tax (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) 256-284.
- "Mack v. AG Canada: Equality, History, and Reparation" in David Dyzenhaus and Mayo Moran, eds., Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations and the Chinese Head Tax (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).
- "The Rule of Law as the Rule of Liberal Principle" in Ripstein, ed., Ronald Dworkin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) 56-81. (download article)
- "Carl Schmitt" contribution (500 words) to Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, forthcoming.
- "Amnesty and the Restoration of Legality in South Africa" in S. McConville, Punishment and Legality (forthcoming).
- "The Case for Public Investment in the Humanities" in Iacobucci and Tuohy, eds, Taking Public Universities Seriously (University of Toronto Press, 2005) 164-73.
- "The Unity of Public Law?" in D. Dyzenhaus, ed., The Unity of Public Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004) 1-19.
- "Constituting the Enemy: A Response to Carl Schmitt" in A Sajo, ed., Militant Democracy (Eleven International Publishing: The Netherlands, 2004) 15-45.
- "The Unwritten Constitution and the Rule of Law" in Grant Huscroft and I Brodie, eds. Constitutionalism in the Charter Era (LexisNexis: Canada, 2004) 383-412.
- "The Justice of the Common Law: Judges, Democracy and the Limits of the Rule of Law" in Cheryl Saunders and Katherine Le Roy, eds., The Rule of Law (The Federation Press: Sydney, 2003) 21-51.
- "Aspiring to the Rule of Law" in Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy and Adrienne Stone, eds., Protecting Human Rights: Instruments and Institutions (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) 195-209.
- 'Leviathan in the 1930s: The Reception of Hobbes in the Third Reich" in John McCormick, ed., Confronting Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology: Political and Social Theory from Nietzsche to Habermas (Duke University Press: North Carolina, 2002) 163-191.
- "With the Benefit of Hindsight: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission" in Emilios Christodoulidis and Scott Veitch, eds., Lethe's Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001).
- "The Permanence of the Temporary" in Ron Daniels et al. eds., The Security of Freedom (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001) 1. (view abstract)
- "Form and Substance in the Rule of Law" in C. Forsyth, ed., Judicial Review and the Constitution, (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000) 141.
- "The Gorgon Head of Power: Heller and Kelsen on the Rule of Law" in Caldwell and Scheuerman, eds, From Liberal Democracy to Fascism: Political and Legal Thought in the Weimar Republic (Brill, 2000) 20-46.
- "Herman Heller" [article introducing his life and work, together with translation of substantial extracts from his work] in Arthur J. Jacobson and Bernhard Schlink, eds., Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) 249-279.
- "Putting the State Back in Credit" in Chantal Mouffe, ed., The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (London: Verso, 1999) 75-91.
- Translation of Schmitt 'Ethic of State', in Chantal Mouffe, ed., The Challenge of Carl Schmitt (London: Verso, 1999) 195-208.
- "Fuller's Novelty" in Witteveen and Van Der Burg, eds., Rediscovering Fuller (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1999), 78-99.
- "Conscience and the Law: Liberal and Democratic Approaches" in Nomos XL: Integrity and Conscience (New York: New York University Press, 1998) 187-217.
- "Normative Justifications for the Provision of Legal Aid" in Report of the Ontario Legal Aid Review: A Blueprint for Publicly Funded Legal Services (1997) 475.
- "The Politics of Deference: Judicial Review and Democracy" in M. Taggart, ed., The Province of Administrative Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 1997) 279-307.
- "Developments in Administrative Law: the 1992-93 Term" (1994) 5 Supreme Court Law Review 189.
- "Developments in Administrative Law: the 1991-92 Term" (1993) 4 Supreme Court Law Review 177.
- "John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography" in Gerald Dworkin, ed., Mill's "On Liberty": Critical Essays (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997), 31-53. [Reprinted from (1992) 102 Ethics 534.]
- "John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography" in Routledge Companion to John Stuart Mill [forthcoming]. [Reprinted from (1992) 102 Ethics 534.]
- "John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography" in Chin Liew Chen, ed., Mill's Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing) [forthcoming]. [Reprinted from (1992) 102 Ethics 534.]
- "Liberalism, Pornography and the Rule of Law" in R. Devlin, ed., Canadian Perspectives on Legal Theory (Emond Montgomery, 1991) 7.
Articles in Journals
- "The End of the Road to Serfdom" (2013) U.T.L.J. 310-326.
- "Positivism and the Pesky Sovereign" (2011) European Journal of International Law Vol. 22, no.2, 363-372.
- "Austin, Hobbes, Dicey" Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence [forthcoming]
- "Constitutionalism in an old key: Legality and constituent power", (2012) Global Constitutionalism, 1:2, 229-260.
- "Emergency, Liberalism and the State" (2011) 9 Perspectives on Politics 69-79.
- "Rand's Legal Republicanism" (2010) 55 McGill Law Journal 491-510.
- "The very idea of a judge" in David Dyzenhaus and Adam Tomkins, eds., (2010) 60 University of Toronto Law Journal, special issue on The Role of the Courts in Constitutional Law 61-80.
- "How Hobbes Met the 'Hobbes Challenge' " (2009) 72 Modern Law Review 488-506.
- "The Puzzle of Martial Law", (2009) 59 University of Toronto Law Journal 1-64.
- "Are legislatures good at morality? Or better at it than the courts?" (2009) 7 International Journal of Constitutional Law 46-52.
- "The Grudge Informer Case Revisited" (2008) 83 New York University Law Review 1000-1034.
- "The Pasts and Future of the Rule of Law in South Africa" (2008) 124 South African Law Journal 734-761.
- "Cycles of Legality in Emergency Times" (2007) 18 Public Law Review 165.
- "Schmitt v. Dicey: Are States of Emergency Inside or Outside the Legal Order" (2006) 27 Cardozo Law Review 2005.
- "The Demise of Legal Positivism" (2006) 119 Harvard Law Review Forum 112-121.
- "The Logic of the Rule of Law – Lessons from Willis" (2005) 55 University of Toronto Law Journal 691-714.
- "An unfortunate outburst of Anglo-Saxon Parochialism" (2005) 68 Modern Law Review 673-676.
- "The Rule of (Administrative) Law in International Law" (2005) 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 127-166.
- "Intimations of Legality Amid the Clash of Arms" (2004) 2 International Journal of Constitutional Law 244-271.
- "The Deep Structure of Roncarelli v Duplessis" (2004) 53 University of New Brunswick Law Journal 111-154.
- "The Left and the Question of Law" (2004) 17 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 7-30.
- "The Genealogy of Legal Positivism" (2004) 24 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 39-67. (
- "Humpty Dumpty Rules or the Rule of Law" (2003) 28 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 1-30.
- "Judicial Independence, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law" (2003) 10 Otago Law Review 345-369.
- "Transitional Justice" (2003) 1 International Journal of Constitutional Law 163-175.
- "Formalism's Hollow Victory" (2002) IV New Zealand Law Review 525-556.
- "Constituting the Rule of Law: Fundamental Values in Administrative Law" (2002) 27 Queen's Law Journal 445-509.
- "Rethinking the Process/Substance Distinction: Baker v. Canada" (2001) 51 University of Toronto Law Journal 193-240. (With Evan Fox-Decent)
- "The Principle of Legality in Administrative Law: Internationalisation as Constitutionalisation" (2001) 1 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 5-34. (with Murray Hunt and Michael Taggart)
- "Hobbes and the Legitimacy of Law" (2001) 20 Law and Philosophy 461-491.
- "Caveat Reviewer: A Response to Matthew Kramer" (2001) 21 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 702-704.
- "Justifying the Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (2000) 8 Journal of Political Philosophy 470-496.
- "Positivism's Stagnant Research Programme" (2000) 20 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 703-722.
- "The Difference Law Makes" Review Article of Abel, Politics By Other Means and Lobban, White Man's Justice (1997) 60 Modern Law Review 866.
- "Critical Notice of Larmore, The Morals of Modernity" (1998) 28n Canadian Journal of Philosophy 269.
- "Reuniting the Brain: The Democratic Basis of Judicial Review" (1998) 9 Public Law Review 98.
- "Law as Justification: Etienne Mureinik's Conception of Legal Culture" (1998) 14 South African Journal on Human Rights 11.
- "Legal Theory in the Collapse of Weimar: Contemporary Lessons" (1997) 91 American Political Science Review 121.
- "Holmes and Carl Schmitt: an Unlikely Pair?" (1997) 63 Brooklyn Law Review 165.
- "Herman Heller" [article introducing his life and work, together with translation of most of Part III of Heller's Staatslehre] (1996) 3 Cardozo Law Review 1129.
- "Hermann Heller and the Legitimacy of Legality" (1996) 16 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 641.
- "Liberalism After the Fall" (1996) 22 Philosophy and Social Criticism 9.
- "The Legitimacy of Legality" (1996) 82 Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 324 and (1996) 46 University of Toronto Law Journal 129.
- "Now the Machine Runs Itself: Carl Schmitt on Hobbes and Kelsen" (1994) 16 Cardozo Law Review 1.
- "CUPE's Spirit?" (1994) 15 Administrative Law Reports 73.
- "The Legitimacy of Law: A Response to Critics" (1994) 7 Ratio Juris 80.
- "Pornography and Public Reason" (1994) 7 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 261.
- "Law and Public Reason" (1993) 38 McGill Law Journal 367.
- "Dicey's Shadow" Review Article of P. Craig Public Law and Democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States of America (1993) 43 University of Toronto Law Journal 127.
- "Why Positivism is Authoritarian" (1992) 37 American Journal of Jurisprudence 83.
- "John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography" (1992) 102 Ethics 534.
- "Liberalism, Autonomy, and Neutrality" Review Article of Offense to Others by J. Feinberg and Contemporary Political Philosophy by W. Kymlicka (1992) 42 University of Toronto Law Journal 354.
- "Law's Potential" Review Article of In a Time of Trouble: Law and Liberty in South Africa's State of Emergency by S. Ellman (1992) 7 Canadian Journal of Law and Society 237-251.
- "Regulating Free Speech" (1991) 23 Ottawa Law Review 219.
- "Obscenity and the Charter: Autonomy and Equality" (1991) 1 Criminal Reports 367.
- "Democracy, Rights, and the Law" (1991) 7 South African Journal on Human Rights 24.
- "Judicial Review, Jurisprudence and the Wizard of Oz" (1990) 1 Public Law Review 21. (with M. Taggart)
- "The Disappearance of Law?" (1990) 107 South African Law Journal 227.
- "Should Community Standards Determine Obscenity?" (1990) 72 Criminal Reports 49.
- "The New Positivists" (1989) 39 University of Toronto Law Journal 361.
- "Christopher Forsyth - In Danger for Their Talents" Review Article (1986) 2 South African Journal on Human Rights 351.
- "Bail, Security, and Rights" (1986) 2 South African Journal on Human Rights 85.
- "Judges, Equity, and Truth" (1985) 102 South African Law Journal 295.
- "Judging the Judges and Ourselves III: The Just Judge and Other Subversives" (1984) 101 South African Law Journal 733.
- "Judging the Judges and Ourselves II: The Just Judge and Other Subversives" (1984) 101 South African Law Journal 553.
- "Judging the Judges and Ourselves" (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 496.
- "Positivism and Validity" (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 454.
- "Peregrines go Home" (1982) 99 South African Law Journal 538.
- "LC Steyn in Perspective" (1982) 99 South African Law Journal 380.
Book Reviews
- Review of Jeffrey Brand-Ballard, Limits of Legality: The Ethics of Lawless Judging (2011) 121 Ethics 420-423.
- Review of The Constitution of Independence: The Development of Constitutional Theory in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand by Peter C. Oliver (2006) Public Law 638-641.
- Review of Constitutional Justice, Public Law, by TRS Allan (2002) Public Law 379-381.
- Jurgen Habermas, The Postnational Constellation: Political Essays and Mark Lilla, The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, Ethics, forthcoming, 7 pages.
- Review of Nicola Lacey Unspeakable Subjects, Philosophical Books, forthcoming.
- Review of W Waluchow Freedom of Expression, Canadian Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.
- Review of W Scheuerman Between the Norm and the Exception (1996) University of Toronto Law Journal 2, 499-537.
- TRS Allan Law, Liberty, and Justice (1995) 45 University of Toronto Law Journal 205.
- Ingo Mueller Hitler’s Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich (1993) 4 Public Law Review 142.
- Albie Sachs Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa and Mike Robertson, ed., Human Rights for South Africans, forthcoming in Journal of Southern African Studies.
- Matthew Kramer Legal Theory, Political Theory, and Deconstruction: Against Rhadamanthus (1991)XI Canadian Philosophical Reviews 401.
- Michael Martin The Legal Philosophy of HLA Hart: A Critical Appraisal (1988) 29 Philosophical Books 250.
- Deryck Beyleveld and Roger Brownsword Law as a Moral Judgment (1988) 105 South African Law Journal 164.
- Anthony T Kronman Max Weber (1985) 102 South African Law Journal 363.
- Neil MacCormick Legal Right and Social Democracy (1984) 101 South African Law Journal 774.
- Robert S Summers Lon L Fuller (1984) 101 South African Law Journal 770.
- Michael J Sandel Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1983)100 South African Law Journal 779.
- PS Atiyah Promises, Morals, and Law (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 776.
- MCJ Olmesdahl and NC Steytler (eds) Criminal Justice in South Africa (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 554.
- Jerry D Rose Outbreaks: The Sociology of Collective Behaviour (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 162.
- FAR Bennion Statute Law (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 157.
- Richard Hodder-Williams The Politics of the US Supreme Court (1983) 100 South African Law Journal 153.
- Ian Taylor Law and Order - Arguments for Socialism (1982) 99 South African Law Journal 693.