Overheard in Law School (from 10/04/08)
The first-year law students of The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law have some interesting quotes of the week at Fight the Hypo, Crim Law Professor: Yes. Orgy killings are bad. Con Law…
October 2008
International influence of supreme courts
The U.S. Supreme Court is now guiding fewer nations says the New York Times. And whose constitutional influence is on the rise at the same time? Several experts quoted by the article point at the Canadian…
Classes Resume at the University of Windsor
A tentative agreement has been reached by the University of Windsor Faculty Association (WUFA) and the University of Windsor. The agreement must still be ratified by members of WUFA and approved by the Board of Governors. However, regular…
Law is Cool Podcast – Episode #15
Is the current federal election illegal? That’s what Ottawa-based non-profit Democracy Watch is alleging in an Application for Judicial Review that it filed in the Federal Court of Canada. The allegation is that the Conservative…
Credit-Related Derivatives are “Financial WMD’s”
American investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet calls credit-related derivatives a financial weapon of mass destruction, and he claims they just went off. Prof. Jesse Fried of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley,…
I Spy with my Little Eye Something that is a Tort
The B.C. Supreme Court has awarded damages to a Vancouver woman whose landlord installed, without notice, a hidden video camera in the hallway outside of her suite. According to the ruling judge, Justice Paul Walker, at…
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…
Federal Election Strategic Voting Tool
With the federal election just two weeks away, many are still scrambling to decide which name they should tick off on the ballot. A friend of mine turned me on to an interesting Google Maps…
10 Types of People on Facebook
We covered the types of stalkers and the use of social networks for lawyers previously. But our readers claimed that Facebook was the best client development network for them. Cracked has a new article on…
Law is Cool Makes CBC News
We’ve been covered in local papers before, and frequently cited in other blogs. But Law is Cool just made CBC News. You can see the link to here from Ormiston Online‘s page on bloggers. Check…