The Solution is Insite
With an unabating drug epidemic and the winds of political change in the air, interest is growing in the United States for a less punitive and more liberal war on drugs. One battle in this…
October 2008
Jobs for Law Grads
US law students are worried about jobs after the best job market in 20 years starts heading down. Should we be too?
Pearl Eliadis Defends Human Rights Commissions
With the recent decision of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal in the popularly known Maclean’s Magazine case looming in the midst, and with its final pronouncement sure to rehash frenzied and vociferous chatter over…
Breasts are a Deadly Weapon
A Texan court just ruled that a woman’s breasts were a deadly weapon, defined as anything capable of causing serious or deadly injury. The 33 year-old woman was charged for indecent exposure when she took…
Fools Abound in Torts
“Chief Justice Rugg’s famous distinctions among negligence, gross negligence and recklessness as being distinctions among a fool, a damned fool, and a God-damned fool.†(Harvard Law Record, April 16, 1959.) h/t Dennis Jansen at No….
Man Suing God Unsuccessful
Just over a year ago we covered Senator Ernie Chambers, the man suing God for making terrorist threats. The case was tossed out this week. But the point of Chambers’ suit, to demonstrate that anyone…
And the Layoffs Continue…
Jules Melnitzer comments on the Legal Post on the mass firings of lawyers in the U.S. Will it come to Canada if our economy goes their way too?
Osgoode Looking to Undergo Makeover
“I was practically embarrassed to see such a horrible looking building,†[business leader and philanthropist, Ignat Kaneff, said] of his visit to the school where his daughter, Kristina, is a student. “It was awful.†Many…
Students Systemically Denied the Right to Vote
Surely the most important story of Tuesday night’s election was the record low turnout, estimated at 59.1%. So low was the turnout that the Conservatives, Liberals, Bloc Québecois, and NDP all lost votes in absolute…
Website Review: TheBillableHour.com
For most of us, succeeding at getting into law school is a long and arduous path, riddled with onerous tasks like resume-updating, LSAT writing and hunting down references from years past. It usually entails a…
International Customary Law Part of Common Law in Canada
H. Scott Fairley, a Theall Group LLP partner, wrote an lucid and compelling comment on R. v. Hape in the last issue of The Globetrotter. In that decision, the Supreme Court formally admitted international customary…
Gee Whizz. False Penises are Illegal?
A Federal Court in the U.S. charged the owners of Puck Technology with conspiracy to defraud the government under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The company produced prosthetic pensises called the…