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Bosnia v. Serbia – Transitional Justice

 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…


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Canada Law Student Writing Awards

The 2007 Law Student Writing Awards recently announced the winners. About the Awards The purpose of the competition, sponsored by the Insolvency Institute of Canada (IIC), is to stimulate interest among law students in the…


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2 skills and 6 kinds of info

2 Skills for each Subject We previously described the typical courses in a first-year law program. The types of skills needed for each subject are: Acquisition of information Developing analytical skill Stephen Coughlan of Dalhousie…


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Law is Cool – Podcast #2

Note:  We are receiving hundreds of visitors looking for information on Michael Bryant.  Please see this post on the recent accident in Toronto. Special edition: Interview with Attorney-General of Ontario, Michael Bryant Show Notes (5:03…


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A National Securities Commission?

Time to Unify Is it time to call for a unified body to regulate Canadian securities? Currently Canada is the only major, developed economy without a centralized, national body regulating securities. Instead it’s fragmented, with…


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*FREE* CBA Memberships!!!

Yes, Free The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) is providing free memberships to all our law student readers in Ontario. All you have to do is let them know you read www.lawiscool.com and they will sign…


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The DRC: Instability and Conflict

Bread and Butter of International Relations Recently, the foreign minister for Uganda visited Kinshasa the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in order to deal with growing tensions between the two neighbouring…



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Intl Law & Political Settlements

These notes are from the Cross-Purposes? International Law and Political Settlements conference at the University of Western Ontario, on Jun. 9-10, 2007, with some editorial content added by Omar Ha-Redeye. From Left: Joseph Rikhof, Valerie…


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International Conflicts

Law is Cool will be doing a special focus on international conflicts and the role of law. Omar Ha-Redeye will share his notes from the past Cross-Purposes? International Law and Political Settlements conference at the…


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Law is Poetry. Literally.

Law and Poetry Innis Claude stated in Power and international relations that law is the poetry and politics the prose of government. Wallace Stevens, American lawyer and poet, said, One is not a lawyer and…