The Published Work of John Willis

I Books, monographs, and contributions to books

The Parliamentary Powers of English Government Departments (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1933), 213 pp.

Editor, Canadian Boards at Work (Toronto: MacMillan, 1941)

'Foreword' in Canadian Boards at Work (Toronto: MacMillan, 1941) v–x

'Part I. The Work of an Administrative Board: Introduction' in Canadian Boards at Work (Toronto: MacMillan, 1941) 1–7

'Part II. Administrative Discretion: Introduction' in Canadian Boards at Work (Toronto: MacMillan, 1941) 65–72

'Part III. Administrative Procedure: Introduction' in Canadian Boards at Work (Toronto: MacMillan, 1941) 115–121

'Income Tax' in Refresher Course Lectures arranged by The Law Society of Upper Canada for Its Members of the Armed Forces (Toronto: Richard De Boo, 1945) vol. 1: 67–125 (five lectures)

The Mitigation of the Tax Penalty on Fluctuating or Irregular Incomes (Toronto: Canadian Tax Foundation – Canadian Tax Papers No. 2, 1951), 88 pp.

A History of Dalhousie Law School (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979), 302 pp.

II Report

Report of the Committee of the Ontario Securities Commission on the Problems of Disclosure Raised for Investors by Business Combinations and Private Placements (Toronto: Ontario Department of Financial and Commercial Affairs, 1970), 200 pp. [Committee members: H.S. Bray, D.S. Beatty, J. Willis]

III Articles

'The Delegation of Legislative and Judicial Powers to Administrative Bodies: A Study of the Report of the Committee on Ministers' Powers' (1932–3) 18 Iowa L.R. 150–9

'Parliament and the Local Authorities' in Harold J. Laski, W. Ivor Jennings, & W.A. Robson, eds., A Century of Municipal Progress: The Last Hundred Years (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935) 400–16

'Three Approaches to Administrative Law: The Judicial, the Conceptual, and the Functional' (1935) 1 U.T.L.J. 53–81

'The Nature of a Joint Account' (1936) 14 Can.Bar Rev. 457–63

'Two Approaches to the Conflict of Laws: A Comparative Study of the English Law and the Restatement of the American Law Institute' (1936) 14 Can.Bar Rev. 1–21

'Statutory Interpretation in a Nutshell' (1938) 16 Can.Bar Rev. 1–27

'Administrative Law and the British North America Act' (1939) 53 Harv.L.Rev. 251–81

'Section 96 of the British North America Act' (1940) 18 Can.Bar Rev. 517–44

'Delegatus Non Potest Delegare' (1943) 21 Can.Bar Rev. 257–64

'Securing Uniformity of Law in a Federal System – Canada' (1943) 5 U.T.L.J. 352–67

'Tax Avoidance in Canada' (1949) 12 Public Affairs 27–30

'Recent Trends in Canadian Income Tax Law' (1951) 9 U.T.L.J. 42–68

'The Administrator as Judge: The Citizen's Right to an Impartial Tribunal' (1953) 2:5 U.B.C.Leg.Notes 427–38; reprinted in J.E. Hodgetts & D.C. Corbett, Canadian Public Administration (Toronto: Macmillan, 1960) 514–23 (discussion reported at 534–44)

'Administrative Discretion and the Law: the Views of a Lawyer' (1958) 24 Can.J.Econ.& Pol.Sci. 502–11

'Administrative Decision and the Law: The Canadian Implications of the Franks Report' (1959) 13 U.T.L.J. 45–55

'Canadian Administrative Law' (1961) 6 J.S.P.T.L. 53–62

'Administrative Law in Canada' (1961) 39 Can.Bar Rev. 251–65

'Trends in Administrative Law' [1962] Canadian Bar Papers (Administrative Law Section) 1–13 (typed)

'Methods of Appointing Judges: An Introduction' (1964) 1 Can.Legal Stud. 216–19

'Civil Rights: A Fresh Viewpoint' (1965) 13 Chitty's L.J. 224–7

'The McRuer Report: Lawyers' Values and Civil Servants' Values' (1968) 18 U.T.L.J. 351–60

'What I Like and What I Don't Like About Lawyers' (1969) 76 Queen's Q. 1; reprinted in (1969) 3 L.Soc'y Gazette (Upper Canada) 52–9

'Foreign Borrowings' (1970) 20 U.T.L.J. 274–82

'Canadian Administrative Law in Retrospect' (1974) 24 U.T.L.J. 225–46

'What Makes a Law School Great?' (1980) 6 Dalhousie L...