Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Nova Scotia appeal judge Thomas Cromwell to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Cromwell will succeed Justice Michel Bastarache, who retired from the S.C.C. on 30 June…
In this episode, Omar Ha-Redeye interviewed Caitlin Rose, a summering student with Fasken Martineau. A recent graduate of the McGill Faculty of Law, Caitlin was a co-founding Executive Editor of the McGill Journal of Law…
Tomorrow it is expected that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will ask Governor-General Michaelle Jean to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election. Harper will argue that his Conservative government no longer has the confidence of…
Eric Goldman, Associate Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the school’s High Tech Law Institute, has a post on a recent American decision involving search engine optimization and…
B.C.’s highest court has dismissed a constitutional challenge to the province’s Access to Abortion Services Act, which restricts protesters around abortion clinics to a distance of 30 meters. The law was enacted by the provincial legislature in…
Linda McKay-Panos of UofA’s UofC’s ABlawg reviews the case in Coward v. Alberta (2008) that came out this summer. Mr. Coward was approached by the police and searched on the basis that he was black. …
Google Chrome is expected to give IE and FIrefox a run for their money. Google has changed its position on open source software several times this month. One feature that has drawn attention are its…
Christina Spencer of the Winnipeg Sun reports, If Prime Minister Stephen Harper forces a federal election in the coming days, a law professor at the University of Ottawa may go to court to challenge the…
In the summer before my first year of law school I had a lot of opportunities to go the extra mile by reading books, going to orientations, taking campus tours and enrolling in prep courses…
It’s not quite topical or typical of what we normally post at Law is Cool, but an article appearing in the New York Times yesterday was so interesting to me that I thought it worth…
This statement summarizes the personal attitude that Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes on “the abortion issue.†This was during the 2006 election campaign, at a time when the Liberals raised alarm over the Conservatives’ position…
