2026 David Dyzenhaus: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	30	276	249	10	10	174	3412

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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

231
Citations
The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency

David Dyzenhaus

157
Citations
Rethinking the Process/Substance Distinction: Baker v. Canada

David Dyzenhaus;Evan Fox-Decent

111
Citations
Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order

David Dyzenhaus

100
Citations
Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism

David Dyzenhaus

91
Citations
Recrafting the rule of law : the limits of legal order

David Dyzenhaus

82
Citations
Positivism's Stagnant Research Programme

David Dyzenhaus

71
Citations
The Constitution of Law: Frontmatter

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68
Citations
Hobbes and the Legitimacy of Law

David Dyzenhaus

67
Citations
Law as Justification: Etienne Mureinik's Conception of Legal Culture

David Dyzenhaus

67
Citations
Constitutionalism in an old key: Legality and constituent power

David Dyzenhaus

62
Citations
Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy

David Dyzenhaus

61
Citations
The Politics of the Question of Constituent Power

David Dyzenhaus

47
Citations
John Stuart Mill and the Harm of Pornography

David Dyzenhaus

45
Citations
Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: Pathologies of Legality

David Dyzenhaus

39
Citations
Philosophical foundations of constitutional law

David Dyzenhaus;Malcolm Thorburn

37
Citations
The Rule of (Administrative) Law in International Law

David Dyzenhaus

32
Citations
Legal Theory in the Collapse of Weimar: Contemporary Lessons?

David Dyzenhaus

31
Citations
Hobbes and the Law: Hobbes on the authority of law

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31
Citations
Schmitt v. Dicey: Are States of Emergency Inside or Outside the Legal Order

David Dyzenhaus

30
Citations
Survey Article: Justifying the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

David Dyzenhaus

26
Citations
The Principle of Legality in Administrative Law: Internationalisation as Constitutionalisation

David Dyzenhaus;Murray Hunt;Michael Taggart

22
Citations
The Puzzle of Martial Law

David Dyzenhaus

19
Citations
Calling power to account : law, reparations, and the Chinese Canadian head tax case

David Dyzenhaus;Mayo Moran

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Loughlin London School of Economics and Political Science

External Links

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