Wounder of Rivers Seeks Refuge in Canada
Rabbi Elior Chen fled Israel to hide in Canada. Not because he was being persecuted in his country of origin, as so many others do, nor was he claiming to flee a war-torn area. Chen…
Ethics
Holocaust Humour Seems Insensitive, to Say the Least
Tasteless Tattoos A recent online prank among bloggers has raised the issue of poking fun around sensitive issues such as the Holocaust. Racial and ethnic humour abounds among comedians, though most prefer to poke…
N.B. Sues Big Tobacco
The Attorney General of New Brunswick, T.J. Burke, announced last week a suit will be launched by the province against 14 tobacco companies. The claim? People are dying prematurely in the province due to smoking,…
Product Placement in Popular Culture – Entertainment of Persuasion?
Ethics at Ryerson Speaker Series November 15, 2007, Noon – 1pm: “Advertising, Branding, Intellectual Property Issues Across the Professions” Product Placement in Popular Culture – Entertainment of Persuasion? Dr. Melanie Dempsey, Ted Rogers School…
Legally Rude – Jerks of the Web
Although we’ve discussed briefly boundaries that bloggers often cross, in addition to libel and slander, lawyers are not immune from offensive behaviour either. ABC Nightline covered a story of a 24 year-old Boston lawyer who…
The Ethics of Intellectual Property: Copy Rights?
Ethics at Ryerson Speaker Series November 15, 2007, Noon – 1pm: “Advertising, Branding, Intellectual Property Issues Across the Professionsl” The Ethics of Intellectual Property: Copy Rights? Marcus Bornfreund, Creative Commons Canada Susan Crean, Creators’ Rights…
Defending Liebeck v. McDonald’s
The scope of negligence in tort law expands and contracts over time. One of the landmark cases in product liability, Liebeck v. McDonald’s Restaurants, has received much criticism as a frivolous lawsuit, and has been…
First-Year Law Student Teaches Ethics to Chinese Delegation
(reproduced with the author’s permission) First-Year Law Student Teaches Ethics to Chinese Delegation TORONTO – Omar Ha-Redeye, a law student at the University of Western Ontario, presented a seminar on ethical behaviour in disasters to…
Unconscionable Organ Donations
“Dr. Horror” Captured An internationally wanted physician from Brampton, Ontario, was caught in Nepal last week. Dr. Amit Kumar was wanted for harvesting organs from poor Indians, usually sold to more affluent people, including international…
Anver Emon on Honour Killings
Anver M. Emon of the UofT Faculty blog shares an editorial he published in the National Post recently on the case of Aqsa Pervez. As a professor of Islamic law, I teach my students about…
Happy, Healthy, and Ethical
Money, Sex and Madness Maclean’s interviewed Philip Slayton, author of a new book entitled Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, for the August edition of the magazine. An excerpt from…