The office of Ontario Ombudsman is on Twitter and Facebook. The Ombudsman is a pretty unique independent oversight officer accountable directly to the provincial legislature. He investigates people’s complaints under the authority granted by the…
First post of three on projects at Windsor Law fighting racial discrimination On February 5th, 2009, the Faculty of Law hosted the official launch of LEAP. LEAP is the first law school project of its…
The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce a new Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. Submissions may be in French or in English. To help advance such…
The Law of Drunkenness: You can’t fall off the floor
The Harper government attempts to justify deporting U.S. Iraq War resisters with a familiar, but untrue, narrative. They say that unlike during the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers are volunteers and are not considered refugees by…
Recently, our beloved facebook has decided to start policing the links that are posted to its members’ profiles. Citing “controversies” and “ongoing lawsuits”, facebooks has unilaterally decided that links to The Pirate Bay are now…
The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in R. v. Patrick, 2009 SCC 17, which concerns privacy interests in garbage and other abandoned items. The Court ruled that a police search of garbage abandoned…
First posted on Commercial Law International on April 3, 2009. It is an understatement to say that the English take their tea very seriously. And it is little wonder why a small teashop in Surrey,…
If you’ve been alive and on the Internet in the past year you would have read the obituaries – print newspapers are dead. Or dying, so they claim. Some are even claiming the recession with…
Blame the current economic crisis on too much debt taken on with too little research. Nobel Prize winning economist Myron Scholes lectured at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law on March 19, packing…
Ahmed Farahat of UWO’s new law paper interviews Justice Ian Binnie. From the February issue of Amicus. If I can start by asking you: when did you first decide to embark on a career in law?…
First posted on Commercial Law International on March 19, 2009. The mother of late rapper Tupac Shakur, Afeni Shakur, filed a $10 million suit against Morgan Creek, an independent production company over the rights to…
