Osgoode Hall Law School has had its own Francophone Society since January. We started with a tiny weekly conversation club last year even before officially registering with Legal and Lit. About ten or fifteen French language…
The US Supreme Court seems to receive a lot more attention than its Canadian counterpart. In part because it plays such a decisive role in US politics. The structure of the American political system may…
Susan Drummond, professor of family law at Osgoode Hall, finally weighed in yesterday on the polygamy issue. She claims that if fully prosecuted many individuals, including herself, would be guilty. There is a general rumbling…
(Via International Law Reporter) José Ernesto Medellín (the subject of International Court of Justice Cases) is scheduled to be executed today at 6pm in Texas. In the flurry of briefs surrounding Medellín petition for writ…
Last week the London Free Press shared findings on online gambling by June Cotte, an Associate Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. Cotte interviewed regular gamblers at…
In this story from the Washington Post, it was reported that a few individuals were alleged to have identified fellow poster’s actual identity on autoadmit.com, a popular pre-law and student discussion forum in the US….
Love and Marriage Contract law is no stranger to love, and vice-versa. We in the Western world, and most other places, have formalized romance for centuries in various different ways. What was once the union…
He escaped a death sentence. But now this little canine in India has been charged with disturbing the peace. Rajiv Ranjan, a local official, said, The court was compelled to issue a summons to the…
I am lucky enough to be a senior editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal in the year of its 50th anniversary. To mark this occasion the Journal is publishing a series of special issues…
Amendments to the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission policies come into effect today. The new rules, which are explicitly aimed at curbing binge drinking, will create a number of changes to how alcohol is served…
