Professor Pardy is a classically liberal legal academic for whom equal application of the law, negative rights, private property, limited government, and separation of powers are foundational to the Canadian and Western legal tradition. A critic of legal progressivism, social justice, and the discretionary administrative state, he has written on a range of pressing legal subjects at the front lines of the culture war inside the law, including environmental governance, climate change, energy policy, human rights and freedoms, professional and university governance, property and tort theory, free markets, and the rule of law. He has taught at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, practiced civil litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, served as adjudicator and mediator on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, and has published and commented widely in traditional and online media. He serves as senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, and helped to birth the Runnymede Society, a branch of the Canadian Constitution Foundation. He spearheaded resistance to and ultimate repeal of the Law Society of Ontario’s statement of principles (SOP) policy that required Ontario lawyers to attest to their ideological purity to maintain their licence to practice. He is one of the co-creators of the Free North Declaration, a public petition and movement to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach.
Professor Pardy is presently on leave from Queen’s Law to serve as the Executive Director of Rights Probe, a division of the Energy Probe Research Foundation, one of Canada’s leading public policy and governance thinktanks. The work of Rights Probe can be found on its website at https://www.rightsprobe.org/.
For Professor Pardy’s new publications, including articles and columns, please go to https://www.rightsprobe.org/read
For Professor Pardy’s new videos, talks, and interviews, please go to https://www.rightsprobe.org/watch
Videos
- Originalism in Canadian Constitutional Law: How should the Constitution be interpreted? Canadian Justice with KR Davidson and Asher Honickman
- A Healthy Critique of Canadian Society Counterpoint with Tanya Granic Allen
- The Conflict on the Right: Ford v Pardy (podcast) Letters from a Contrarian by Eugene Fernandes
- The Impact of Cancel Culture Canadian Justice with KR Davidson and Barbara Kay
- Cancel Culture and the Scientific Community Canadian Justice with KR Davidson and Debra Soh
- Bruce Pardy on Campus Freedom (podcast) The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms: Justice with John Carpay
- The Civil War Inside the Law – and the side the law schools are on Runnymede TRU
- Bill 21, The Notwithstanding Clause, and Section 28 of the Charter with Geoff Sigalet, Leonid Sirota and Kristopher Kinsinger, Runnymede Law and Freedom Conference.
- A Dialogue on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) with Professor Karen Drake, Runnymede Osgoode
- The Sweet Spot of Liberty with Salim Mansur and Robert Vaughn, JustRight Media
- The Future of Ontario’s Energy Policy (podcast) Beyond the Headlines
- The Two Kinds of Equality The North Wire
- Correcting Political Correctness with Maxime Bernier, Jared Brown and Lauren Chen
- Moving Beyond the Green Energy Act The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO
- Justin Trudeau, Anti-West sentiment and call-out culture Interview with Curt Jaimungal for Better Left Unsaid
- The Effect of Free Speech Laws on Universities JustRight Media/Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS)
- A Heated Legal Climate for Energy in Ontario The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO with Elisabeth DeMarco
- Oxford Union Debate on Climate Change Resolved: That Developed Countries Have No Right to Impose Standards on Developing Countries
- Runnymede Society Debate on the Law Society of Ontario's Statement of Principles Resolved: That the Law Society’s Statement of Principles is an unjustified form of compelled speech
- The Queen's University Liberty Lecture with Jordan Peterson: The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech in Canada
- Has the Social Justice Revolution Taken Law Schools? Runnymede Windsor
- Political and Constitutional Challenges to Free Trade within Canada One Country One Market: The Future of Interprovincial Trade in Canada
- Debate on Non-gendered Pronouns with Jordan Peterson Resolved: That people have the legal right to decide the pronoun by which they will be addressed
- A Call to Rebellion for Ontario Legal Professionals Discussion on the Law Society of Ontario's Statement of Principles with Jordan Peterson and Jared Brown
- Update: Law Society of Ontario Compelled Speech with Jordan Peterson and Jared Brown
Publications
- Professor Pardy’s book, Ecolawgic, in PDF – free download: Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law (Fifth Forum Press, 2015)
Articles and Columns - “Property Rights and Ecosystem Services” in Max Falque, ed, Property Rights for the Environment (Bruylant, 2021).
- ”Public Universities, Speech Policies, and the Law: Fourteen Maxims” (2020), 29 Education and Law Journal 27.
- “The Cold War Continues, and Now We Are Losing” (December 26, 2020) The Epoch Times
- “2020 Hindsight: Our Year of Bowing Down to ‘The Science’” (December 23, 2020) Financial Post
- “In Universities, the Revolution is Now Complete” (October 14, 2020) National Post
- “A Shakespearean Sendoff to Sir John A” (September 9, 2020) National Post
- “Public Universities, Speech Policies, and the Law: Fourteen Maxims” (2020) 29 Education and Law Journal 27.
- “Thirteen things that can’t be said about Aboriginal Law and Policy in Canada” C2C Journal, September 18, 2020.
- “In Critical Race Theory, White Self-Flagellation is the Only Choice” (July 24, 2020) The Epoch Times.
- “Apocalyptic science: How the West is destroying itself” (June 26, 2020) Financial Post.
- “Let’s not double-down on the nanny state” (April 22, 2020) National Post.
- “Careful, crises are an ideal time for the state to grab powers – we’re already seeing it in Canada” (March 31, 2020) Financial Post.
- “Liberals get unlimited spending authority for six months with Niels Veldhaus and Jason Clemens (March 25, 2020) Toronto Sun.
- “Trudeau government plan would have undermined Opposition ability to hold government to account” Fraser Forum, March 24, 2020.
- “Alberta Court of Appeal rejects carbon tax, protects provincial jurisdiction” Fraser Forum, February 25, 2020.
- “For students, not being disabled is the new disability” (January 20, 2020) The Epoch Times.
- “The Liberals aren’t liberal anymore – but the Conservatives can and must be” (December 20, 2019) National Post.
- “Welcome to law school where feelings are more important than facts” (December 17, 2019) The Epoch Times.
- “Conformists Inside the Gates: The Threat to Academic Freedom from Fellow Faculty” Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship Newsletter, September 2019.
- “In the name of social justice, they are showing reformers their place” (June 24, 2019) National Post.
- “You have free speech so long as you think the right thoughts” (May 17, 2019) National Post.
- "This lawyer was determined to stop the law society’s forced statement of principles” (May 14, 2019) Financial Post.
- “Outraged Responses to Ontario Free Speech Directive Reveal the Problem the Directive is Trying to Solve” Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship Newsletter, April 2019.
- “Our rights depend on an election you haven’t even heard of” (April 2, 2019) National Post.
- “How Social Justice Ideologues Hijacked a Legal Regulator” with Murray Klippenstein, Quillette, February 11, 2019.
- “Substantive equality: Some people are more equal than others” Advocates for the Rule of Law, February 6, 2019.
- “Paris is a Progressive Fairy Tale: In Praise of American Withdrawal” (2019) 32 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 19.
- “Five worst public law decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada: Day Two” Twelve Days of Christmas Symposium, Double Aspect blog, December 26, 2018.
- "Students claiming mental disabilities should not be granted extra time on exams” International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry Bulletin, November 2018.
- "StatCan's bank raid is absolutely ideological - the ideology of endless government meddling" (Nov 20, 2018) Financial Post.
- “Disabusing the Common Law of ‘Abuse of Rights’: The Only Legitimate Rule Redux” (2018) 84 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 201.
- "Amazingly, the Constitution always says what the Supreme Court thinks it should" (July 13, 2018) Financial Post.
- "The Supreme Court's TWU ruling is a cruel joke played on all Canadians" (June 29, 2018) National Post.
- “Protecting Government from Free Trade: The “Free the Beer” Case at the Supreme Court of Canada” Fraser Institute, 2018.
- "The Liberals take a bad environmental assessment process and make it worse" (May 2018) Financial Post.
- "FIT to be Untied: How a new provincial government can unravel Feed-In Tariff electricity contracts" (April 2018) Council for Clean and Reliable Energy (CCRE).
- "Let the Paris climate deal die. It was never good for anything anyway" (May 18, 2018) Financial Post.
- “Federal Reforms and the Empty Shell of Environmental Assessment” Fraser Institute, 2018.
- "Law schools should not be combatants in culture wars — but too many profs disagree" (April 3, 2018) National Post.
- "The social justice revolution has taken the law schools. This won't end well" (February 27, 2018) National Post.
- "Law Society's new policy compels speech, crossing line that must not be crossed" (October 3, 2017) National Post.
- "The Only Legitimate Rule: A Reply to MacLean’s Critique of Ecolawgic" (2017) Dalhousie Law Journal 393.
- "Mental disabilities shouldn't be accommodated with extra time on exams" (August 17, 2017) National Post.
- “Meet the new ‘human rights’ — where you are forced by law to use ‘reasonable’ pronouns” (June 19, 2017) National Post.
- “I’ve got a great, new fee model for investment advisers. I bet none of them takes it” (April 19, 2017) National Post.
- “Coercion or Consent: A Response to Honickman’s Review of Ecolawgic” (March 15, 2017), Advocates for the Rule of Law.
- “Don’t blame the robots for taking over the economy, blame the patents that protect them” (March 28, 2017) National Post.
- "Head Starts and Extra Time: Academic Accommodation on Post-secondary Exams and Assignments for Cognitive and Mental Disabilities" (2016), 25 Education and Law Journal 191.
- "Does Constitutional Protection Prevent Education Reform in Ontario?" December 2016, Fraser Institute Research Bulletin and Barbara Mitchell Centre for Improvement in Education.
- "Not Good or Bad but Different: Free Markets, Subjective Preferences, and Labels for Genetically Modified Foods" (2016) 29 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 347
- ”Climate witch hunt: The hypocritical plot to execute Exxon” (December 4, 2015) National Post.
- "The Unbearable License of Being the Executive: A Response to Stacey's Permanent Environmental Emergency" (2015) 52 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 1029
- "Towards an Environmental Rule of Law" (2014) 17 Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 163
- “The Logic of Ecosystems: Capitalism, Rights and the Law of ‘Ecosystem Services’” (2014) 5 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 136.
- “Cancelling Contracts: The Power of Government to Unilaterally Alter Agreements” October 2014, Fraser Institute Research Bulletin.
- “Killing green energy contracts”, Financial Post, May 14, 2014.
- Ecosystem Management and Sustainability, Volume 5 of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Craig, Nagle, Pardy, Schmitz and Smith, editors (Berkshire, 2012).
- “Eviscerating Property in the Name of Sustainability” (2012) 3 Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 292.
- “Energy Visions versus Private Rights: Government energy strategies game the system” (2013) 25 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 69.
- “False Panacea: The Human Right to Water” in Harriet Bigas, ed., The Global Water Crisis: Addressing an Urgent Security Issue, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (Inter-Action Council, 2012), 136.
- “Too Much Talking, Too Few Rules: The Futility of Environmental Assessment”, H2Opinion, Water Canada Magazine, May/June 2012, 50.
- “A Right to Clean Air? Constitutional protection for the environment may leave people out of luck” (book review) Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 20, No. 2, March 2012, 26.
- “The Failed Reform of Ontario’s Mining Laws” (2012) 23 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 1 (with A. Stoehr)
- "Remedies of Compensation: Tort" in P. Blanchard, ed., Remedies 2nd Ed. (Brookers, 2012) (with G. McLay and D. Neild).
- “Separating Powers at the University: Applying Constitutional Law to Internal Academic Governance” (2011) 20 Education and Law Journal 243.
- “The Dark Irony of International Water Rights” (2011) 28 Pace Environmental Law Review 907.
- “Water Rights – All Wet” Financial Post Comment – National Post, September 7, 2011.
- “Environmental Assessment and Three Ways Not To Do Environmental Law” (2010) 21 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 139.
- “Confidentiality Dilemmas in Environmental Mediation” in Practical Ethics for Mediators, E. Waldman, ed. (2010).
- “Brownfields: The Legal Framework” in P. Welbourn, ed., The Story of Brownfields and Smart Growth in Kingston Ontario (2009) (with M. Wallace and S. Warshawski).
- “Making Children Climate Drones” Financial Post Comment – National Post, February 4, 2010.
- “Ontario’s Policy Framework for Environmental Education” (2010) 22 Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education 22.
- “Water Myths and Legends” (November/December 2009) Water Canada 7.
- "The Hand is Invisible, Nature Knows Best, and Justice is Blind: Markets, Ecosystems, Legal Instrumentalism and the Natural Law of Systems" (2009) 44 Tulsa Law Review 67.
- "Climate Change Charades: False Environmental Pretences of Statist Energy Governance" (2009) 26 Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues 179
- "The Pardy-Ruhl Dialogue on Ecosystem Management, Part V: Discretion, Complex-Adaptive Problem Solving, and the Rule of Law" (2008) 25 Pace Environmental Law Review 341.
- "Separation of Powers in the Ivory Tower: An Organizing Principle for University Governance", (2008) 5 Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy 372.
- "Goods, Services and Systems: A Review of Ruhl, Kant & Lant's The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services" (book review) (2008) 46 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 445.
- "Harper was right to criticize the UN on climate change" (Dec. 14, 2007) Lawyer's Weekly
- "The Clash over the Nature of Environmental Limits: Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction" (2007) 16 Policy Dialogue (Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy) 14.
- "Honour thy mother and anyone living with her", Globe and Mail (Tuesday, July 31, 2007).
- "You say, she says: A conversation about climate change", Kingston Whig-Standard (July 25, 2007).
- "Ecosystem Management in Question: A Reply to Ruhl" (2006) 23 Pace Environmental Law Review 209.
- The Writing Rules: How to Write Research Papers and Essays at University (Fifth Forum Press, 2006).
- "WWF Report Wrong about Canada's ‘Print'" Financial Post Comment, National Post, October 31, 2006.
- "Senate Reform: Representation by Territory" Opinion Page, Toronto Star, December 19, 2006.
- "Sustainable Development: The Status Quo Masquerading as Environmental Progress" (2006), 18 Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education 4, reprinted in [2006] 2 Variety: International Naturefriends Magazine (Prague) 26.
- "Environmental Law and the Paradox of Ecological Citizenship: The Case for Environmental Libertarianism" (2005) 33 Environments 25.
- "In Search of the Holy Grail of Environmental Law: A Rule to Solve the Problem" (2005) 1 International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy 29
- "False first step ", National Post (Wednesday, February 9, 2005)
- "The Kyoto Protocol: Bad News for the Global Environment" (2005) 14 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 27.
- "Poor Students, Well-Paid Lawyers: Post-Graduation Income-Contingent Tuition Fees for Law Schools" (2004) 29 Queen's L.J. 848.
- "Seven Deadly Sins of Canadian Water Law " (2004) 13 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 89.
- "Changing Nature: The Myth of the Inevitability of Ecosystem Management" (2003) 20 Pace Environmental Law Review 675.
- "Remedies of Compensation: Tort" in P. Blanchard, ed., Remedies (Wellington: Brookers, 2003) 83.
- "Asking the Dog to Guard the Puppy Chow: Three Objections to Environmental Voluntarism" (2003), 12 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 129.
- "MacMillan Bloedel: Progress on Due Diligence" (2002), 5 Criminal Reports146.
- "Applying the Precautionary Principle to Private Actors: Is it Relevant to Civil and Criminal Liability?" (2002) 43 Les Cahiers de Droit 63.
- "Sustainable Development: In Search of a Legal Rule" (2001), 28 Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis 391.
- "Reverse Sensitivity: The Common Law Giveth and the RMA Taketh Away" (1999) 3 New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law 93 (with J. Kerr).
- "Implications of Reverse Sensitivity" (1999) 3 Brookers Resource Management Bulletin 42 (with J Kerr).
- "Animal Farm Revisited: An Environmental Allegory" (1999), 30 Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 135.
- "Rules that Define v Rules that Distort: Regulatory Creep Revisited", [1998] New Zealand Law Journal 352.
- "Abstraction, Precedent, and Articulate Consistency: Making Environmental Decisions" (1998) 34 California Western Law Review 427.
- "Representation by Territory: A Proposal for Senate Reform" (1997) 9 Constitutional Forum 9.
- "Planning for Serfdom: Resource Management and the Rule of Law", [1997] New Zealand Law Journal 69
- "Environmental and Resource Management Law" (Book Review), [1997] New Zealand Law Journal 185.
- "Environmental Rights: Mitigating Flaws of the Management Model", [1996] New Zealand Law Review 239.
- "The Bill of Rights after Baigent", [1996] New Zealand Law Journal 434.
- Environmental Law: A Guide to Concepts (Toronto: Butterworths, 1996).
Presentations and Appearances
- “The Contemporary Abnormal: COVID-19 and the Rule of Law” Runnymede Western, October 2020.
- “The Case for Freedom and Free Markets in an Unfree Time” Canada Strong and Free Network, Online, May 2020.
- “The Civil War Inside the Law – and the side the law schools are on” Runnymede TRU, Kamloops, March 6, 2020.
- “Bill 21, The Notwithstanding Clause, and Section 28 of the Charter” with Geoff Sigalet, Leonid Sirota and Kristopher Kinsinger, Runnymede Law and Freedom Conference, Toronto, February 29, 2020.
- “A Dialogue on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP)” with Professor Karen Drake, Runnymede Osgoode, Toronto, February 27, 2020.
- “How Social Justice Lawyers Turned the Law Society into the Thought Police” with Lisa Bildy, Civitas Canada, Toronto, January 2020.
- “We Have Met the Enemy” InForming Content: Exploring Contemporary Performance Creation, Queen’s University, Kingston, November 2019.
- “Challenges to Indigenous and remote food sovereignty and security” Health and Human Rights Conference, Queen’s University, Kingston, November 2019.
- “The Civil War Inside the Law” POGG Canada, Harry Weldon Canadian Values Award Event, Ottawa, November 2019.
- “Right Idea, Wrong Approach: The Ontario free speech directive and the effect of speech laws on universities” Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS) Annual Conference, Western University, London, May 2019.
- Freedom North, Fraser Institute and Institute for Liberal Studies, Vancouver, April 2019.
- “Say goodbye to the liberal university” Civitas 23rd Annual National Conference, Canada in Flux, Liberty in Transition, Toronto, April 2019.
- "Things that can’t be said about Aboriginal law and policy in Canada” Canadian Bar Association, Northwest Territories, Aboriginal Law Section, March 2019.
- "How Not to Succeed in the Global Economy: Canadian strategies for losing our way" Business Summit of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 16, 2018.
- "The Political and Constitutional Challenges to Free Trade Within Canada" One Country One Market National Conference: The Future of Interprovincial Trade, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and Canadian Constitution Foundation, Ottawa, November 1, 2018.
- "Head Starts and Extra Time: Academic Accommodation on Post-secondary Exams and Assignments for Students with Cognitive and Mental Disabilities" International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, Annual Conference, Toronto, October 2018.
- "Trinity Western v Law Society of BC" Runnymede Society, Western Law School, October 18, 2018.
- "Has the Social Justice Revolution Taken Law Schools?" Runnymede Society, Windsor Law School, October 12, 2018.
- "Modifying Previous Government Energy Policies: Options for Action in the Public Interest" Council for Clean and Reliable Energy Annual Energy Leaders Roundtable, Orangeville, April 2018.
- "The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech in Canada" with Jordan Peterson, Queen's Liberty Lecture, Kingston, March 5, 2018.
- "The Law Society's Statement of Principles" Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, Combating Hate Speech and Antisemitism, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, February 13, 2018
- "Paris, We Hardly Knew Ye", 6th Biannual Conference of the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice (JELP), We'll Always Have Paris, Dalhousie University, Halifax June 2017.
- "Disabusing the Common Law of 'Abuse of Rights'", Canadian Law of Obligations 2017, Innovations, Innovators, and the Next 20 Years, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2017.
- "Forced speech in Bill C-16", testimony before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, May 2017.
- “Becoming the Deep State? The Uneasy Relationship between Government Policy and the Rule of Law”, Masters of Public Administration Program, Queen's University, Kingston, May 2017.
- "Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law", 2017 Civitas Annual Conference, Vancouver, April 2017.
- "Freedom of Speech and Bill C-16", Runnymede Society Debate with Jordan Peterson, Queen's University, Kingston, January 2017.
- “The Start of the End of Paris and perhaps the UNFCCC”, The World After the Paris Agreement, McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, McGill University, Montreal, January 2017.
- "International law versus the Rule of Law", Institute for Liberal Studies Debate, McGill University, Montreal, January 2017.
- “Head Starts and Extra Time: Academic Accommodation on Post-secondary Exams and Assignments for Cognitive and Mental Disabilities” Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Sept 2016.
- “Environmental Law versus The Rule of Law” Runnymede Society Debate, Bora Laskin School of Law, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Sept 2016.
- “Hard Truths about Climate Change” The Sunday Edition, CBC Radio, May 13, 2016.
- “The Inevitability of Property” Property and Law Symposium, Institute of Liberal Studies, Ottawa, April 2016.
- “There’s No Such Thing as Public Interest: A Discussion About Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law” Presentation to Officials at Environment Canada, Gatineau QC, March 2016.
- “The Legitimacy of the Welfare State: Governments in Pursuit of Public Good” Runnymede Society Debate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, March 2016.
- “Debate on Social and Economic Rights” Runnymede Society Debate, Queen’s University Faculty of Law, March 2016.
- “Property: Environmental Hero or Villain?” Institute of Liberal Studies, University of Ottawa, February 2016.
- Book launch of Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule of Law, featuring Justice Grant Huscroft and Professor Jason MacLean, Queen’s Law, January 2016.
- “Allegations ExxonMobil used Big Tobacco tactics on climate change” The Current, CBC Radio, November 13, 2015.
- “A Betrayal of Its Own Ideology: The Canadian Government’s Refusal to Label Genetically Modified Foods” The Journal of Environmental Law and Practice’s 5th Biennial Conference ‘Après…le Déluge’: Future Directions for Environmental Law and Policy in Canada, Kananaskis AB, June 2015.
- “Destined to Fail? Groundwater Management in Canada” (Commentator), Security Underground: Financing Groundwater Mapping and Monitoring in Canada, Munk School of Global Affairs, Program on Water Issues, May 2015.
- “Water and the Myth of Sustainable Development” Water Environment Association of Ontario, Queen’s Chapter, March 2015.
- “FIT to be Tied: Can the Ontario Government cancel renewable energy contracts?” Ontario Network for Sustainable Energy Policy (ONSEP) Annual Workshop, Prince Edward County, Ontario, April 2014.
- “The Madness of Bottled Water Bans”, Water Environment Association of Ontario, Queen’s Chapter, Kingston, March 2014.
- “Welcome to the Anthropocene, where natural means everything and nothing”, Law and Our Diverse Natures Conference, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, February 2014.
- “Markets, Laws and Labels for Genetically Modified Foods”, Yale Food Systems Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, October 2013.
- “Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: A Rights-based Theory of Tort”, 2013 Private Law Theory Workshop, Queen’s University, Kingston, April 2013.
- “Climate Change: Sense and Nonsense”, Keynote speaker, Ontario Public Works Associaion (OPWA) Annual Meeting, Ottawa, January 2013.
- “Drowning in Confusion: The Debate over Water Rights”, Keynote speaker, World Water Day 2013 Graduate Research Symposium, Wilfrid Laurier & Waterloo Universities, Waterloo, March 2013.
- “The Murky World of Water Rights”, Water Environment Association of Ontario, Queen’s Chapter, Kingston, March 2013.
- Roundtable Discussant, Classics in Environmental Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois, Galena IL, October 2012.
- “False Panacea: The Human Right to Water” at symposium and launch of The Global Water Crisis: Addressing an Urgent Security Issue, United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton ON, September, 2012.
- “No Visions Please, We’re Canadian: National Energy Strategies Game the System”, 4th Biennial Conference of the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice (JELP), (De)Constructing a “National Energy Strategy”: Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability of Two Different Visions, Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, June 2012.
- “Towards an Environmental Rule of Law”, A Rule of Law for Nature, University of Oslo Faculty of Law, Oslo, Norway, May 2012.
- Roundtable Discussant, Reconciling Ecology and Economics: Processes and Property Rights, Hoover Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, April 2012.
- “Losing Liberty and Ecosystems: Legal Instrumentalism and the Environmental Rule of Persons”, University of Montana School of Law, Missoula, MT, October 2011.
- “Justice Should be Blind: Environmental Instrumentalism and the Rule of Law”, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Saskatoon, October 2011.
- “Liberty, Markets and Environmental Policy”, Roundtable Discussant, Liberty Fund and PERC, Montana Sky Guest Ranch, Emigrant, Montana, October 2011.
- “Coase, Economic Welfare and the Rule of Law”, Seminar Series, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana, September 2011.
- “A Natural Law of Systems”, Seminar Series, Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana, September 2011.
- “Elevating Canada’s EA Game: Can EA Contribute to Making Canada a “Responsible Energy Superpower”, Clean Energy Superpower and Environmental Assessment: Canada’s Ambitions and Choices, Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, March 2011.
- “The Blue Covenant”, public debate at Royal Ontario Museum, Director’s Signature Lecture Series, Water: The Forum, Toronto, March 2011.
- “Environment, Technology, and Society: Ways to Think about Environmental Law”, Civil Engineering Forum, Queen’s University, January 2011.
- “Green Conservatism Workshop”, Manning Centre for Building Democracy, Kahanoff Conference Centre, Calgary, December 2010.
- “Canada and Climate Change” on Goldhawk Live, CPAC Television Program hosted by Martin Stringer (first aired December 12, 2010) available at.
- “The Great Climate Debate”, Queen’s Environmental Law Association, November 2010.
- “Why Climate needs Trade Law and the Obstacles in the Way”, Queen’s University Summer Institute on Trade Policy, September 2010.
- "Water Governance: Building a coherent, principled framework”, Value of Water, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, April 2010.
- "Water Myths: Domestic and International", Queen's University 6th Annual International Development Conference, Kingston, March 2010.
- “Planning for Energy Serfdom: Ontario’s Green Energy Act and the Perversion of Sustainable Technology Development” at First Annual Workshop of ONSEP (Ontario Network of Sustainable Energy Policy), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, April 2010.
- “Climate Change Plans and Ploys”, 2010 Annual Conference of Ontario Public Works Association, Mississauga, January 2010.
- “Copenhagen Wrap-Up - Pardy”, The Current, CBC Radio (Friday, December 18, 2009)
- The Debate over Climate Change: Canada, Leader or Laggard?, CPAC Television Documentary by Bill Luxton featuring Bruce Pardy (first aired December 8, 2009)
- “Environmental Assessment and Three Ways Not to Do Environmental Law” at Third JELP Environmental Law Conference, The Demise of Environmental Assessment in Canada? Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, October 2009.
- “Ontario’s Environmental Education Framework”, 2009 Council of Outdoor Educators of Ontario Annual Meeting, Parham, September 2009
- “Climate Change, International Development, and Environmental Limits”, Queen’s University Summer Institute on Trade Policy, September 2009.
- "Water Policy Myths and Misconceptions" at Investing in Water, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 2009.
- "Confronting the Geography of Climate Change: Population, Territory, Biocapacity and the International Clash over National Limits", Canadian Association of Law Teachers Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009.
- "Legal Philosophies of Environmental Protection" (chair and panelist), Canadian Association of Law Teachers Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 2009.
- "Water Policy Myths and Misconceptions" at Investing in Water, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, Toronto, May 2009.
- "What Economists Should Know About Environmental Law", Seminar Series, Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, March 2009.
- "Access to Water: Basic Propositions for the Governance of Drinking Water", Queen's University 5th Annual International Development Conference, Kingston, March 2009.
- "Canada's Energy Future" (panelist), Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference (CEEC), Queen's University School of Business, Kingston, March 2009.
- "Carbon Pricing in Canada: What's Wrong with This Picture?" at Carbon Pricing and Environmental Federalism, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Kingston, October 2008.
- "Climate Change Sense and Nonsense: Bandwagons, Boondoggles, and Boundless Hot Air", Collingwood Georgian Triangle Lifelong Learning Institute, Collingwood, 26 September 2008.
- "Models of Environmental Governance: Moving from the Specific to the General", (organizer and chair), 2008 Joint Meeting of the Canadian Law & Society Association and International Law & Society Association, Montreal, June 2008.
- "Applying Sunstein's Libertarian Paternalism", (organizer and chair), 2008 Joint Meeting of the Canadian Law & Society Association and International Law & Society Association, Montreal, June 2008.
- "Torts, Egalitarianism, and Distributive Justice", (reader and commentator), 2008 Joint Meeting of the Canadian Law & Society Association and International Law & Society Association, Montreal, May 2008.
- "The International Context and a Skeptic's Lament" at Turning the Corner or Hitting the Wall: Climate Change Law & Policy in the Post-Kyoto Era, speaker, chair, and organizer, Program at the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Toronto, April 2008.
- "Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Perspectives and Prospects" (panelist), at 2008 Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference, Queen's University School of Business, March 2008.
- "Water Law 101" at 2008 International Development Conference, Queen's University, March 2008.
- "Encouraging Environmentally Sustainable Communities" at Environmental Stewardship Workshop, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University, March 2008.
- "Corporate Legal Identity and the Role of Government" at The New Wild West: Canadian Multinationals in the Global South, Queen's University, March 2008.
- "Separation of Powers in the Ivory Tower: An Organizing Principle for University Governance" at 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, poster presentation, New York, January 2008.
- "Property Rights, Utilitarian Government and Environmental Protection" at The Future of Freedom: Law and Liberty in Canadian Jurisprudence, Canadian Constitution Foundation, Toronto, October, 2007.
- "Public Consent in Electricity Governance" (Commentator) at Good Governance and the North American Electricity Sector: Can North America's Federal Systems Meet the Challenges? Forum of Federations, QUIEEP and Natural Resources Canada, Toronto, October 2007.
- "People and the Environment: Realities and Opportunities" at Think Again 2007, Conference of the Canadian Millenium Foundation, Ottawa, September 2007.
- "Kyoto: Bruce Pardy Feature", The Current, CBC Radio (Monday, June 18, 2007) .
- "Climate Change: Through the Lens of Developed and Developing" at Six Degrees of Separation: Media Fellowship Conference on Climate Change, Queen's University, May 2007.
- The Great Debate: Environmentalism and Sustainability, Queen's University, March 29, 2007.
- "Environmental Orthodoxy and the Ironic End of the World", The Last Debate on Earth Series, Queen's University, March 2007.
- Conference Chair, Queen's Sustainability Network Conference 2007, Interest to Action, March 2007.
- Is Kyoto for Canada? Panel discussion on the Kyoto Protocol, Queen's University, February 28, 2007.
- The Ratings Game, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, January 2007.
- "Kyoto, Subsidies, and Energy Markets" in Oil and Gas and the Canadian Economy, Q'BET 2006 (Queen's Conference on the Business Environment Today), Kingston, November 2006.
- "Ecosystem Creep and the Absence of Rules in Environmental Law", Canadian Association of Law Teachers Annual Meeting, York University, June 2006.
- "Stakeholder Participation" (Session Chair) at 2nd J.E.L.P. Environmental Law Conference: Sharing Environmental Responsibility: Stewardship Obligations in the Corporate, Governmental and Non-Governmental
- Sectors, University of Saskatchewan College of Law/Anglin Lake, Saskatchewan, June 2006.
- "Are Humans Part of Nature? The Paradox of Ecological Citizenship", Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario, June 2005.
- "The Paradox of Individualized Justice" Canadian Association of Law Teachers Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, June 2005.
- "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Kyoto and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change", Environmental Lawyers in Government Conference, Toronto, Sept 2004.
- "The Kyoto Protocol: Bad News for the Global Environment", First JELP Environmental Law Conference: Defining Canada's Environmental Priorities, University of Saskatchewan, June 2004.
- "Liability for Contaminated Lands", Rethinking Brownfield Development: Linking Strategies, Technology, and the Planning Profession, Queen's University, March 2004.
- "Leaving Standards Up in the Air: Flaws in the Kyoto Approach", 2003 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, Dalhousie University, June 2003.
- "Poor Students, Well Paid Lawyers: An Introduction to Post-Graduation, Income-Contingent Tuition Fees for Law Schools" 2003 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, Dalhousie University, June 2003.
- "Few Rights, Few Responsibilities: Seven Deadly Sins of Canadian Water Law", First International Conference on Water and Health, Towards a New Frontier in the Protection of Drinking Water, Ottawa, September 2002.
- "The World Summit on Sustainable Development: Commentary", CBC Radio, August 28, 2002.
- "The First Class of Law School: Professor, Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up" 2002 Institute for Law School Teaching Conference, Franklin Pierce Law Centre, Concord, NH, June 2002.
- "Voluntarism and the Evolution of Environmental Law: A Dubious Path to an Uncertain Destination" 2002 Environmental Studies Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Voluntarism and Environmental Governance, University of Toronto, May 2002.
- "Applying the Precautionary Principle to Private Actors: Is it Relevant to Civil and Criminal Liability?" 2001 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, Joint Session of Administrative Law, Health Law, Environmental Law and International Law Sections, Laval University, May 2001.
- "Whose Fault Is It When Corporations Pollute?" 2001 Human Rights Symposium, New England School of Law, Boston, February 2001.
- "Not with a Bang but a Manager: The End of Environmental Protection", 2000 Thomas Jefferson School of Law Lecture Series, San Diego, March 2000.
- "Logical Flaws in Ecosystem Management", 2000 California Western School of Law Faculty Seminar Series, San Diego, January 2000.
- "Defining Risk Management", seminar for Wellington District Law Society, October 1998.
- "Ecology, Law and Urban Planning - Can They Work Together?" California Western School of Law Lecture Series, San Diego, February 1998.
- "The Case for Preservation" in The Great Environment Debate, NZ Institute of Public Law, Wellington, March 1997.
- "The Death of Principle in Environmental Law", Spring Seminar Series, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, November 1996.
- "Baigent and the Bill of Rights: Mark Antony's Response" in The Great Debate on Baigent v Attorney-General, NZ Institute of Public Law, Wellington, September 1996.
- "Contaminated Sites: The New Zealand Approach", presentation at Government and Public Sector Lawyers' Conference, Canadian Bar Association, Vancouver, August 1996.
- "Planning for Serfdom in New Zealand: Reflections on Urban Regeneration", paper presented at the 11th Commonwealth Law Conference, Vancouver, August 1996.
- "Baigent and the Tort of Breach of Statutory Duty", presentation at Symposium on the Interface between Tort and Public Law, NZ Institute of Public Law, July 1996.
Decisions in Cases before the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal
- 2210652 Ontario Ltd v Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) [2014] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 40.
- D & O Waterline Assn. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) [2014] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 30.
- Nestle Canada Inc. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2013), 76 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 331.
- Kemp v. Ontario (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs), [2013] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 60.
- Wessuc Inc. v. Ontario (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs), [2013] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 69.
- Martin v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment), [2013] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 71.
- Kennametal Stellite Inc. v. Director, Ministry of the Environment (2013), Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Case No. 13-118.
- Timco Foods Ltd. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2013), 74 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 137.
- Brimley Progress Development Inc. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2013), 75 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 310.
- TankTek Environmental Services Ltd. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2013), 76 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 84.
- Timco Foods Ltd. V Ontario (Ministry of the Environment),[2013] O.E.R.T.D. No. 16
- Preserve Mapleton Inc. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2012), 67 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 207.
- Concerned Citizens Committee of Tyendinaga and Environs v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment) (2012), 67 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 94.
- Sitko Farms Inc. v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment), [2012] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 37.
- Monture v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment), [2012] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 39.
- Napash v. Ontario (Ministry of the Environment), [2012] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 55.
- Ontario Power Generation Inc. v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment), [2011] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case No. 10-119.
- Ontario Power Generation Inc. v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment), [2011] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case No. 10-131.
- Quiring v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment), [2011] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case No. 11-225/226.
- Tesmar Holdings Inc. v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment),[2010] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case No. 09-158.
- Welch v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment),[2010] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 10-069, [2010] O.E.R.T.D. No. 46.
- Welch v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment),[2010] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 10-070, [2010] O.E.R.T.D. No. 47.
- McRae v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment),[2009] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case No. 09-062, [2009] O.E.R.T.D. No. 41.
- Quinte West v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment),[2009] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 09-070, [2009] O.E.R.T.D. No. 49, 46 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 237.
- Dawber v. Ontario (Ministry of Environment)(2007), 28 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d), judicially reviewed and upheld by the Ontario Divisional Court: Lafarge Canada Inc. v. Ontario (Environmental Review Tribunal), [2008] O.J. No. 2460 (Div. Ct.).
- Passmore on behalf of the North Aldershot Preservation Association v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of the Environment), [2007] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case No. 06-225.
- Dawber v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment), [2007] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal, Case Nos. 06-160 to 06-181/06-183.
- Bogan v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment), [2007] Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal Decisions No. 12.
- Davidson v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment) (2006), 24 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 165.
- Valastro v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment) (2006), 23 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 307.
- Safety-Kleen Canada Inc. v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment) (2006), 21 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 88.
- Simpson v. Ontario (Director, Ministry of Environment) (2005), 18 Canadian Environmental Law Reports (3d) 123.