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David Dyzenhaus

David Dyzenhaus

D-Index & Metrics

Law

D-Index
30
Citations
3412
World Ranking
276
National Ranking
10

David Dyzenhaus publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Dyzenhaus sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 262+

This scientist: 174 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

David Dyzenhaus D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David Dyzenhaus sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index: 16 scientists 21 D-Index: 23 scientists 22 D-Index: 11 scientists 23 D-Index: 20 scientists 24 D-Index: 17 scientists 25 D-Index: 23 scientists 26 D-Index: 19 scientists 27 D-Index: 19 scientists 28 D-Index: 22 scientists 29 D-Index: 14 scientists 30 D-Index: 25 scientists 31 D-Index: 25 scientists 32 D-Index: 20 scientists 33 D-Index: 24 scientists 34 D-Index: 23 scientists 35 D-Index: 12 scientists 36 D-Index: 11 scientists 37 D-Index: 15 scientists 38 D-Index: 14 scientists 39 D-Index: 4 scientists 40 D-Index: 8 scientists 41 D-Index: 9 scientists 42+ D-Index: 92 scientists
20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1999 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

David Dyzenhaus is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has a primary research focus in the Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Law, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, and History. Their work spans diverse subfields with an emphasis on the intersections between law, politics, and society.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Kelsen's Contribution to Contemporary Philosophy of International Law, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Inevitable Social Contract, 2020, Res Publica
  • 'Immanentizing the Eschaton': Eric Voegelin, Hans Kelsen, and the Debate over Secular Religion, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The African National Congress and the birth of constitutionalism, 2020, International Journal of Constitutional Law
  • Not an Isolated, Exceptional, and Indeed Contradictory Branch of Jurisprudence, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

The most frequent coauthors with whom Dyzenhaus has collaborated are:

  • Thomas Poole
  • Moeen Cheema
  • Jens Meierhenrich
  • Jacco Bomhoff
  • Adriaan Lanni

The primary publication venues for Dyzenhaus's work consist of:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • International Journal of Constitutional Law
  • University of Toronto Law Journal
  • Res Publica

Several book publications have been produced by Dyzenhaus under the Cambridge University Press, including:

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Rule of Law (2021)
  • Courting Constitutionalism (2021)
  • The Long Arc of Legality (2021)

Their research covers key topics such as:

  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
  • Political Theology and Sovereignty
  • Law in Society and Culture
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

Dyzenhaus has been recognized with distinguished fellowships including the Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded in 2020 and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1999, specifically within the Academy of the Arts and Humanities.

Best Publications

  • Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen and Hermann Heller in Weimar

    David Dyzenhaus

  • The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Rethinking the Process/Substance Distinction: Baker v. Canada

    David Dyzenhaus;Evan Fox-Decent

  • Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Recrafting the rule of law : the limits of legal order

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Positivism's Stagnant Research Programme

    David Dyzenhaus

  • The Constitution of Law: Frontmatter

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  • Hobbes and the Legitimacy of Law

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Law as Justification: Etienne Mureinik's Conception of Legal Culture

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Constitutionalism in an old key: Legality and constituent power

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy

    David Dyzenhaus

  • The Politics of the Question of Constituent Power

    David Dyzenhaus

  • John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: Pathologies of Legality

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Philosophical foundations of constitutional law

    David Dyzenhaus;Malcolm Thorburn

  • The Rule of (Administrative) Law in International Law

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Legal Theory in the Collapse of Weimar: Contemporary Lessons?

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Hobbes and the Law: Hobbes on the authority of law

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  • Schmitt v. Dicey: Are States of Emergency Inside or Outside the Legal Order

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Survey Article: Justifying the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

    David Dyzenhaus

  • The Principle of Legality in Administrative Law: Internationalisation as Constitutionalisation

    David Dyzenhaus;Murray Hunt;Michael Taggart

  • The Puzzle of Martial Law

    David Dyzenhaus

  • Calling power to account : law, reparations, and the Chinese Canadian head tax case

    David Dyzenhaus;Mayo Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Loughlin
Martin Loughlin London School of Economics and Political Science
Will Kymlicka
Will Kymlicka Queen's University

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