Show Notes
(11:21 Total Running Time)
0:19 Omar Ha-Redeye introduces Jordan Furlong from the Canadian Bar Association
1:06 Jordan explains how the CBA helps students prepare for their future after graduation
1:54 Advocacy work undertaken by CBA explained, including access to justice (legal aid), lobbying and law reform, Supreme Court of Canada interventions on confidentiality and […]
Wade Blasingame, Attorney At Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBsKkV8hcLM
The Socratic Method was first used in law schools at Harvard, starting the 19th c., and is now employed in most major law schools around the world.
Joseph Bartosch describes to purposes for using the Socratic method:
strict classical approach to eliminating false philosophical presuppositions by exposing logical errors in thinking
utilizing the simple question and answer […]
Show Notes
(19:04 total running time)
0:38 Thomas Wisdom and Omar Ha-Redeye mention the special edition podcast with Michael Bryant, the Attorney-General of Ontario, and the new international law content
3:10 The roundtable discussion featuring Amy Chua’s work, and the concept of the Daoist prosecutor are discussed
4:22 Preparations for law school, and anticipation of the […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Introduction
One of the only international instruments working in the DRC currently is the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUC.
According the UN’s peacekeeping website, this is the largest current UN peacekeeping mission, costing over 1/5th of the $5 billion peacekeeping budget, and featuring 16,000 armed troops along with another several thousand civilian […]
Blue Jays v. Baltimore Orioles
It’s not an obscure yet interesting case law that you missed.
We’re talking about the game on Sept. 16, 2007 at 1 p.m. at the Rogers Center in Toronto.
You could be going free, compliments of the Law is Cool website.
What do I need to do?
We know that you’re reading our site. […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Cross Purposes? International Law and Political Settlements – A Roundtable Discussion with All Speakers
A panel of all the previous speakers collectively discussed the challenges with amnesty for war criminals.
The problem with the so-called hacienda model, where war criminals go into exile, is that eventually everyone wants to come […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Darryl Robinson: New Contexts, New Models – International Prosecutors in Pre-Transitional Justice Situations
Daryl Robinson, who teaches international human rights at the University of Toronto, proposed a new model for prosecutors in international law.
He stated that we currently make laws based on past experiences, and […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Valerie Oosterveld: International Criminal Justice, Peace and Politics: Making Gender Matter
Valerie Oosterveld, of the Faculty of Law and the University of Western Ontario, started by asking if international courts are gender sensitive and if there are links between peace agreements and international justice.
There is a need for a broader range […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Joanna Quinn: Getting to Peace? Negotiating with the LRA in Northern Uganda
Joanna Quinn is the Co-Chair of the Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group at the University of Western Ontario.
She discussed the ongoing peace talks in Uganada, and began by providing some background to the conflict.
Milton Obote was in […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Joseph Rikhof: Fewer Places to Hide? The impact of domestic war crimes prosecutions on international impunity
Joseph Rikhof, law faculty at the University of Ottawa, discussed the effects of prosecution.
Romeo Dallaire said that importance of prosecution is not just in convictions, but also as a deterrent.
Augusto Pinochet, former Indonesian president, […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Audrey Boctor: Impact of the ICTR in Rwanda
Audrey Boctor of Columbia Law School has shared that Rwandan civilians actually resisted the efforts of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).Many of them wanted the death penalty enacted, and wanted proceedings to occur domestically.
As a result, there is a disconnect between […]
 Part of the International Conflicts series
Patricia Marchak: Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to Prosecute Crimes Committed by the Khmer Riuge (KR) During Democratic Kampuchea (DK)
Patricia Marchack commented on how the Khmer Rouge killed about 1/3 of the population in Cambodia in 1975-79.
She explained how devastated such countries are after these […]
Part of the International Conflicts series
Valery Perry: Limits to Sovereignty in Statebuilding & Post-War Transition: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Case of Managed Democracy
Valery Perry has lived and worked in Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1999 and spoke of her experiences and personal insights into the region.
Many Serbs understood the ICJ ruling to indicate that they […]
 Part of the International Conflicts series
Mark Drumbl: Bosnia v. Serbia Litigation: What it Means for Transitional Justice
Mark Drumbl, of the Washington and Lee University School of Law, discussed transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia.
Although Nuremberg effectively prosecuted individuals for their crimes, the notion of collective liability was first established with the Yugoslavian […]
