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Articles/Book Chapters
“Remarks on the Form and Justification of Private Law Rights, Liberties, and Powers” in Interstitial Private Law (Samuel Bray, John Goldberg, Henry Smith, and Paul Miller, eds, OUP 2023 (projected))
“The Value of the Neighbour Relation” in Private Law and Practical Reason (Haris Psarras and Sandy Steel, eds, OUP 2022)
“The Nature and Value of Public Space (with some Lessons from the Pandemic)” 50 Fordham Urban Law Journal 61 (2022)
“Homelessness as a Legal Phenomenon” in The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law & Society (Nicole Graham, Margaret Davies, and Lee Godden, eds, Routledge 2022)
“What Makes a Home: A Reply” 41 Law & Philosophy 469 (2022)
“The Office of Ownership Revisited” 70 University of Toronto Law Journal (Supplement 2) 287 (2020)
“Property Wrongs and Egalitarian Relations” in Civil Wrongs and Justice (Paul Miller and John Oberdiek, eds, OUP 2020)
“Thinking Like a Private Lawyer” 68 University of Toronto Law Journal 166 (2018)
“Property and Homelessness” 44 Philosophy and Public Affairs 266 (2016)
“Nuisance and the Normative Boundaries of Ownership” 52 Tulsa Law Review 85 (2016)
“Intentional Action and Law” 8 Jurisprudence 110 (2016)
“A Theory of Legal Obligation” in The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin (Stefan Sciaraffa and Wil Waluchow, eds, OUP 2016), pp 245-269
“Legal Powers in Private Law” 21 Legal Theory 136 (2015)
“How Law Matters in Why Law Matters” 12 Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies 1 (2015)
Review of James Penner and Henry Smith (eds.), "Philosophical Foundations of Property Law", in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014)
“Property in Licenses and the Law of Things” 59 McGill Law Journal 559 (2014)
“The Office of Ownership” 63 University of Toronto Law Journal 418 (2013)
“Legal Obligation and Reasons” 19 Legal Theory 63 (2013)
“From Raz’s Nexus to Legal Normativity” 25 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 465 (2012)
“A Dilemma for Protected Reasons” 31 Law and Philosophy 49 (2012)
“Tort Law and Happiness” 36 Queen’s Law Journal 1 (2010)
“Normativity, Fairness and the Problem of Factual Uncertainty” 47 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 665 (2009) (with Andrew Botterell)
“Dignity and Membership, Equality and Egalitarianism: Economic Rights and Section 15” 19 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 407 (2006)
Book(s)
Property Law in the Society of Equals. Oxford University Press, 2024.
The Law of Bilingual Interpretation. Toronto: Carswell, 2008. (with Michel Bastarache, Naiomi Metallic and Regan Morris). French Translation: Le droit de l’interprétation bilingue. Montreal: LexisNexis 2009.
