Unjust by Design

Ron Ellis is an administrative law lawyer, teacher, academic, arbitrator, and former chair and CEO of a major administrative judicial tribunal. He has been teaching, speaking, and writing about administrative justice system issues for more than thirty years.

• Introduction1 Defeating the Rule of Law in the Administrative Justice System: Executive Branch Strategies and Tactics2 Administrative Justice: Getting the Context and Terminology Clear, the Concepts Straight, and the Prescription Right3 Administrative Judicial Tribunals: The Inside Story4 Prelude to Reform5 The Reform Proposal6 Implementing the Reform Proposal: A Strategy for Change7 Meanwhile, a Toolkit for LitigatorsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

The issues addressed in Unjust by Design are of critical, though largely unappreciated importance. Ron Ellis faced a significant challenge of persuasion: the tediousness of administrative law is dangerous because it can mask significant injustice ... But precisely because these are the workaday issues of our society, it is critical that they not be ignored and left subject to a decision-making system so bereft of basic elements consistent with the rule of law that their validity is rendered questionable.- Bob Tarantino (Literary Review of Canada, June 2013)