Peer-Reviewed Publications
‘Declarations of Invalidity and the Metaphysics of Judicial Review’ (forthcoming, 2025) 58:1 University of British Columbia Law Review. “Highly Recommended” on Prof. Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog.
‘Aboriginal Title and Equity's Darling’ in Gerard Kennedy, Kristopher Kinsinger, and Malcolm Lavoie, eds, Private Rights and the Rule of Law (2024) 4 Supreme Court Law Review (3d) 223-259.
‘The Highest Suggestion in the Land: Obiter Dicta and the Modern Supreme Court of Canada’ (2024) 61:1 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 9-62.
‘Litigating Intentional Discrimination’ in Sophia Moreau and Cheryl Milne, eds, Litigating Equality (2024) 114 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 309-331.
‘Republic of Fiji v Prasad: Revolutionary Legality and the Taxonomy of Legal Change’ (2022) 22:2 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 117-149.
‘The Body as Me and Mine: The Case for Property Rights in (Attached) Body Parts’ (2021) 66:3 McGill Law Journal 565-601.
‘Why is Aboriginal Title Property if it Looks Like Sovereignty?’ (2021) 34:2 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 417-460. Co-authored with Douglas Sanderson.
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Talks
‘The Death of Obiter Dicta’ – Legal Philosophy and Constitutional Theory Junior Scholars Conference. Georgetown Centre for the Constitution, Georgetown University Law Centre. Washington D.C., USA. March 2025.
‘The Death of Obiter Dicta’ – Cornell Law School Graduate Conference. Cornell Law School. Ithaca, USA. March 2025.
‘Tort Law's Numerus Clausus’ – Yale Law School Law & Philosophy Works-in-ProgressWorkshop. Yale Law School. New Haven, USA. February 2025.
‘Tort Law's Numerus Clausus’ – Yale Law School Doctoral Colloquium. Yale Law School. New Haven, USA. February 2025.
‘The Death of Obiter Dicta’ – 3rd Graduate Conference on Constitutional Change. University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Austin, USA. December 2024.
‘The Private Law Dimension of Aboriginal Rights’ – Aboriginal Law Conference 2024. Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. November 2024.
‘The Death of Obiter Dicta’ – ICON•S Winter/Summer School for Junior Scholars. UNSW Sydney Faculty of Law & Justice. Sydney, Australia. June 2024.
‘Declaring Rights: The Law of Equity’s Modus Operandi’
(a) Obligations Conference X: Private Law & The State. Banff, Canada. July 2023.
(b) KU Leuven Conference on Property Law Reform & The Commons. KU Leuven. Online. March 2023.
(c) Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference: Civil Remedies. December 2022. University of Western Australia. Online.
(d) Prof. Lionel Smith’s Global Seminar in Private Law Theory. August 2022. Online.
‘Aboriginal Title and Equity’s Darling’ – Private Rights and the Rule of Law. Runnymede Society. Banff, Canada. July 2023.
‘The Permissible Limits of Arguing in the Alternative’ – Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group. Online. June 2023.
‘Litigating Intentional Discrimination’ – Litigating Equality in Canada. David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Toronto, Canada. May 2023.
‘Republic of Fiji v. Prasad: Revolutionary Legality and the Taxonomy of Legal Change’ – Tel Aviv University Workshop for Junior Scholars in Law. Tel Aviv, Israel. November 2021.
Blogs
‘The Death of Obiter Dicta’ – University of Ottawa Law Review Blog. September 2024. (Peer-reviewed).