Law School Husslin – Part 3
UWO Law
UWO Law Welcomes AIDWYC @ Western
AIDWYC. Â Does that mean anything to you? I, Ryan Venables, am very please to announce that thanks to Jonathan Thoburn and Lisa Lutwak, a couple of very keen and persistent (that’s a good thing) 1L…
So We’re Still Undergrads?
Undergrad degree, check. LSAT, check. Fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollar tuition, check. Still considered an undergraduate, check. WHAT??!! Still considered an undergrad? Welcome to The University of Western Ontario, where law, dental, medical, and…
The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand
From Volume III, Issue II of Amicus Curiae, Western Law’s Student Paper Canada was a different place before Trudeaumania swept the nation, and the man we know as Ivan Rand, founding Dean of this law…
Withler We Go From Here: The Future of Pension Reform
Western Law hosted a forum on pension reform this past Thursday, featuring community leaders, legal academics, and practitioners. Pension Plan Basics Prof. Robert Brown of the University of Waterloo explained some of the basics behind…
SCC: Unions Cannot Use Courts for Fines
The Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear an appeal this past week of an Ontario Superior Court’s decision finding in Jeffrey Birch and April Luberti vs. the Union of Taxation Employees Local 70030, that…
Real Media Don’t Die, We Multiply
If you’ve been alive and on the Internet in the past year you would have read the obituaries – print newspapers are dead. Or dying, so they claim. Some are even claiming the recession with…
Flexibility, Please
Blame the current economic crisis on too much debt taken on with too little research. Nobel Prize winning economist Myron Scholes lectured at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law on March 19, packing…
Mitch Kowalski, Man to Watch in Tough Legal Times
Last week I met with Mitch Kowalski of the Legal Post. He mentioned our conversation earlier today on the site, which is the kick in the butt I needed to do my own write-up on…
Min. Flaherty “Harsh” on U.S. Economy
Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty spoke at UWO Law today. Coverage of the event can be found on CBC, Canadian Press, and Reuters. He claimed that the Canadian economy was in better shape than the…