2008: Professor Emeritus Mullan at a Toronto alumni event, where the David Mullan Entrance Scholarship was launched.
handled by the Tribunal because that would expect, for instance, Professor Mullan to sit on every panel.” While fellow judge Stratas today shares Hughes’ high opinion of Mullan, he confides he wasn’t one of Mullan’s students (“I couldn’t get into his section of administrative law.”). Instead, Stratas got to know Mullan and began appreciating the depth of his legal expertise during a Friday-afternoon ritual – poits gatherings at Law House, the informal
pub for Queen’s Law – where Mullan would hold forth on topical legal issues, as well as cricket, horse racing, cold beer and fine scotch. “It was when I’d been in practice a few years that I really began to study David’s writings and to fully understand how he towers over the whole field of administrative law. For issues in this area, there’s no question that David Mullan is the leading light.” Stratas was understandably delighted by the opportunity to collaborate with Mullan in teaching the school’s Advanced Constitutional Law course from 1997 until Mullan’s 2004 retirement. His colleague continues to do a lot behind the scenes to advance the study of administrative law, Stratas notes. “For example, every year he writes many conference papers for which he receives nothing more than thanks. He’s also a fixture at educational conferences for Canadian judges.” Mullan’s lld citation also reflected other extracurricular contributions. He served as the City of Toronto’s – and Canada’s – first municipal Integrity Commissioner from 2004 to 2008, consulted on various law reform projects, served on Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal, and was a part-time Vice-Chair of the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He remains on the roster of Canadian experts who adjudicate Canada-U.S. disputes arising under Article 19 (the anti-dumping and countervailing duty provisions) of nafta. That Mullan has been recruited to serve in such demanding capacities is a testament to both his expertise in his field and his dedication to the highest ideals of the legal profession. In his June Convocation address, he urged members of Law’15 plotting their various professional paths to “consider seriously how you can pursue a career in law in which you are open to the centrality of process, a conception of the practice of law as a healing profession, and the place of QLR lawyers in our democratic institutions.”
GREG BLACK
2015: Chancellor Jim Leech and Dean Bill Flanagan applaud Professor Emeritus David Mullan upon presenting him with the honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Law Convocation on June 5.
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