Evan Fox-Decent

Books and book chapters

Sovereignty’s Promise: The State as Fiduciary. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008. The manuscript has passed initial external review; I am presently making some final changes suggested by the editor. The book runs approximately 400 pages, and has eight chapters:

“The Charter and Administrative Law: Cross-Fertilisation in Public Law” in Administrative Law in Context, L. Sossin & C. Flood eds. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, forthcoming in 2007).

With Armand de Mestral, “Implementation and Reception: The Congeniality of Canada’s Legal Order to International Law” in The Relationship between International and Domestic Law, Oonagh Fitzgerald, et. al. eds. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006): 31 - 83.

“The Internal Morality of Administration: The Form and Structure of Reasonableness,” in The Unity of Public Law, David Dyzenhaus ed., (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004): 143-171.

“Constitutional Protection of Indigenous Rights in Canada: Reconciling State Sovereignty with the Pre-existence of Distinctive Aboriginal Societies,” in Administración de Justicia y Pueblos Indígenas en la Perspectiva del Derecho Intercultural, Adriana Lander Osío ed., (Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela Press, 2003): 73-103.

Book reviews

Marc Ribeiro, Limiting Arbitrary Power: The Vagueness Doctrine in Canadian Constitutional Law, (2005) 30(2) Queen’s Law Journal: 923-937.

Monographs, technical reports and white papers

“Programa Andino de Derechos Humanos y Democracia: Final Evaluation Report” (with Christiane Tuijtelaars and Hilde Hey). Utrecht, the Netherlands: Human European Consultancy, 2006 (176 pp.).

Final Editor: “Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo, Kong Rady, Phan Sin. Pathways to Justice: Access to Justice with a focus on the Poor, Women and Indigenous Peoples (Phnom Phen, Cambodia: UNDP, 2005),” pp. 226.

“Thematic Impact Assessment of the USAID/Guatemala Peace Program” (with Michael Brown, John Tyynela, and Roderick Brett). Burlington, Vermont: Associates in Rural Development, 2004 (104 pp.).

“Peacebuilding and Reconstruction Program Initiative: External Evaluation Report” (with Rex Brynen, Stephen Browne). Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2003 (74 pp.).

“Proyecto Justicia y Multiculturalidad: Informe del Componente Nacional” (with Myra Muralles). Guatemala City, Guatemala: United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights in Guatemala, 1999 (186 pp.).

“Proyecto Administración de Justicia y Pluralismo Lingüistico: Informe de la Base de Datos de las Encuestas sobre Multilingüismo.” Quetzaltenango, Guatemala: United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights in Guatemala, 1997 (57 pp.).

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Murky Relationship between the Charter and Administrative Law.” January 26, 2007. “Young Scholars Conference.” Faculty of Law, McGill University.

Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Metropolitana, of Mérida and Caracas respectively. April 18 and 20, 2006.
Presented paper “Independencia Judicial.”

Centre for Quebec Studies, McGill University. April 6, 2006.
Presented paper “Treaties and the Crown-Native Fiduciary Relationship.”

University of Wellington, New Zealand, November, 2005.
Presented Paper “Fashioning Legal Authority from Power.”

University of Montreal, October, 2005.
Commentary on the forthcoming David Dyzenhaus, The Constitution of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, May, 2005.
Presented paper “The Underlying Justification of Fuller’s Internal Morality of Law.”

University of Ottawa, Department of Philosophy, February, 2005.
Presented paper “Hobbes and the Power/Authority Distinction.”

Faculty Law Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, March 2004.
Presented paper “A Tale of Two Paradigms: The Balancing and the Rights Approach in Canadian Public Law.”

Queen’s Law Development Conference, Kingston, February 2004.
Presented paper “The Justice System in Guatemala after the Peace Accords.”

Canadian Association of Law Teachers Conference. Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 2003.
Presented paper “The Fiduciary Nature of Free-Standing Public Duties.”

International Forum on Constitutional Reform, Indigenous Peoples and Justice. Ombudsman of Peru/Human Rights Office of the Catholic Church of Peru/International Institute on Law and Society, Lima, February 2003.
Presented paper “Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Rights.”

The Authority of Reason. University of Toronto, Toronto, January 2003.
Summarised and critiqued papers submitted by Professors David Mullan, Lorne Sossin and Geneviève Cartier.

Administration of Justice and Indigenous Peoples from the Perspective of Intercultural Law. Supreme Court of Venezuela, Caracas, April 2002.
Presented paper “Protection of Indigenous Rights in Canada: Reconciling State Sovereignty with the Pre-existence of Distinctive Aboriginal Societies.”