 Mary Liston
Assistant Professor
B.A. (Hons) (UWO), M.A. (York), LL.B. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Tel: 604.822.9844
E-mail: liston@law.ubc.ca
Office: Allard Hall, room 447
Profile
Mary Liston joined the Faculty of Law in July 2009 after visiting during the 2008-09 academic year. Prior to her appointment at UBC, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Law and Ethics at the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto. She completed her doctoral work in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, having already received an M.A. in Social and Political Thought at York University, an LL.B. from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, and an Honours B.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Western Ontario. As a graduate student, she received a number of prestigious awards including the Peter Russell/Ontario Graduate Scholarship in the Department of Political Science and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Scholarship for her doctoral work. Her doctoral thesis, "Honest Counsel: Institutional Dialogue and the Canadian Rule of Law," constructs a theoretical model of a democratic rule of law from a close reading of Canadian jurisprudence in public law, with a particular focus on constitutional law and administrative law.
Professor Liston teaches administrative law, legal theory, and public law. Her work in administrative law has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. She is a co-organizer of UBC's Law and Society Speakers Series as well as a member of the Law and Society Advisory Board at UBC.
Professor Liston takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research. Her recent research projects include an analysis of legal and moral import of the duty to consult and accommodate in administrative law, a case study of the BC Representative of Youth and Children as an example of the integration of inquisitorial and adversarial models within the administrative state, and the function of apologies in Canadian public law.
Research Interests
- Rule of law
- Administrative Law
- Legal and political theory, including democratic theory and legal pluralism
- Citizenship, immigration and refugee law and theory
- Law and literature
- Comparative public law
Representative Published Works
"Witnessing Arbitrariness: Roncarelli v. Duplessis Fifty Years On." (2010) 55 McGill Law Journal, 689-720. (download article)
"The Rule of Law." In The Encyclopedia of Political Science. (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2010), 1493-1497.
"The Rule of Law Through the Looking Glass." (2009) 21(1) Law and Literature, 42-77. 20th Anniversary Issue. (download article)
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"Governments in Miniature: The Rule of Law in the Administrative State." In Administrative Law in Context: A New Casebook. Eds. Colleen Flood and Lorne Sossin. (Toronto: Emond-Montgomery, 2008), 77-114.
"Immigration and Integration in Canada." Co-authored with Professor Joseph Carens. In Migration and Globalisation: New Challenges for Managing Immigration. Eds. Atsushi Kondo and Charles Westin. (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2008), 207-227.
"Willis, 'Theology,' and the Rule of Law." (2005) 55(3) University of Toronto Law Journal, 767-95. (download)
"'Alert, alive and sensitive': Baker, the duty to give reasons, and the ethos of justification in Canadian public law." In The Unity of Public Law. Ed. David Dyzenhaus. (Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2004), 113-141.
Selected publications are also listed on the UBC Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database
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