Andy Yu
Andy Yu is an assistant professor at Western Law. His background in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language informs his interests in legal philosophy, as well as constitutional law, administrative law and property law. He is particularly interested in legal interpretation.
Before joining Western Law in 2022, he clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and he articled at Paliare Roland LLP. He completed his law degree at the University of Toronto and his doctorate at the University of Oxford.
Andy's research includes doctrinal topics (the “always speaking” principle of statutory interpretation and unwritten constitutional principles) and philosophical topics (legal rationalism, legal philosophical methodology and the relevance of the philosophy of language to legal interpretation).
With Manish Oza, Andy is co-directing the Legal Philosophy Research Group and an interdisciplinary project on law and language. In June 2024, he co-organized a two-day workshop on law and language funded by SSHRC.
Website: https://andydfyu.com/
Academic Degrees:
BA (McGill), BPhil (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford), JD (Toronto)
| Email: | andy.yu@uwo.ca |
| Phone: | 519 661-2111 x89006 |
| Office: | LB 100D |
Research Highlights
“A Unified Approach to Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation” (forthcoming) Canadian Bar Review
“The Administrative Law of Section 33 of the Charter” (2025) 70:2 McGill Law Journal 291
“Torts and Contracts: Civil Liability for AI Causing Harms” (with Ren Bucholz), Litigating Artificial Intelligence (Emond, 2021), chapter 9
“Delegated Legislation and the Charter” (2020) 33:1 Canadian Journal of Administrative Law & Practice 49
“Equity and Homelessness” (2020) 33:1 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 245
“Direct Discrimination and Indirect Discrimination: A Distinction with a Difference” (2019) 9:2 Western Journal of Legal Studies 1
