About Ryan Alford Ryan Alford is associate professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University, a bencher of the Law Society of Ontario, and author of Permanent State of Emergency: Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law. Books by Ryan Alford Seven Absolute Rights Recovering the Historical Foundations of Canada's Rule of Law by (author) Ryan Alford Permanent State of Emergency Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law by (author) Ryan Alford