A Miller Update
An update from a previous post. John Miller, a journalism professor, has a new reply for Mark Steyn. He challenges his characterization of quotes (a mistranslation of a mistranslation of an unverified quote), and asks…
December 2008
It’s Official: E-Laws Printouts are Good Law!
Mr. Wisdom has pointed out how reliant we soon-to-be-lawyers are on technology. I, like him, cannot imagine living without CanLII, electronic library catalogs, and e-laws. However, there has always been an undercurrent of resistance to…
Wireless Internet in Class: Bad for your Reputation?
I didn’t realize the error of my ways until my professor blogged about it. Technology makes education work in ways we have to appreciate. I have on occasion tried to imagine what law school was…
Is the Past Dead?
Part of the Middle Passage Law Series ‘It’s always about slavery. It happened sooooo long ago, why not just get over it’ or ‘I am over it?’ Get over it, you say, get over it….
A clarification of questions : an unabridged translation of Resaleh towzih al-masael
Or, why academia matters Here is what Azim Nanjim, who was with Oklahoma State University at the time before moving to the University of Florida, says in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion,…
These Laws are Stupid Too
Courtesy of Annie Scott of Gadling: 1. Australia – It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of…
LawIsCool Exclusive: Mark Steyn Exists
Mark Steyn asks us for help: I hope the Law Is Kool Aid guys are on to this: Mr. Steyn, I am afraid you have been punked by an Internet hoax. There is no “Mark…
10 Things You Shouldn’t Put in an E-mail
Roger Mathus of Death by Email quotes Elizabeth Charnock, CEO of Cataphora on 10 things you should probably never write in an e-mail: “I could get into trouble for telling you this, but…” “Delete this…
The New Liberal Bloc
Separatists make strange bedfellows. They take all your money, show you no respect, and when they threaten to leave they almost always mean it. In fact, the only thing worse than going to bed with…
DoJ (US) Launches Mounted Prosecutors
Well it’s twice as nice when the Onion covers legal issues a second time in two weeks. The Department of Justice is considering going the way of the Canadian Mounties, and launching a division of…
“We Object!” – The Impossibility of Satisfying Everybody
As everyone probably knows by now, Osgoode Hall Law School at York University has resumed classes despite the ongoing strike by CUPE 3903. On top of the obvious controversy a move like this will stir…