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Prolegomenon To An Intellectual History Of Administrative Law In The Twentieth Century: The Case Of John Willis And Canadian Administrative Law, Michael Taggart

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The intellectual legal history-the history of ideas--of modern administrative law has yet to be written. The first part of this article suggests that one way to approach this necessary task is to posit the writings of leading administrative law thinkers in the context of cases, controversies, doctrines, events, and movements throughout the twentieth century. The work of pioneer administrative lawyer John Willis is used to exemplify this type of contextualized intellectual legal history. The second part of this article seeks to gauge Willis's influence on the development of Canadian administrative law.