The Origins of Hostility to the Rule of Law in Canadian Academia: A History of Administrativism and Anti-Historicity

The article offers a historical perspective on a growing threat to the rule of law from inside legal education. His contribution demonstrates that the modern legal academy's disdain for this foundational concept explained in no small part by a key obstacle in its path to ideological hegemony in legal thought: in order to reshape the law in the image of its own instrumentalism, it must eradicate the intimate knowledge and attachment to constitutional history that has always engendered great respect for the rule of law in the Canadian bench and bar.