Health Canada Bans Homosexual Organ Donations
Where is the Announcement? Health Canada has enacted new rules at the end of 2007 prohibiting organ donation from homosexual males. But the CBC reports that as of this week, those in the organ donation…
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Black Anti-Gun Control
Opposition to gun control is typically associated with lobby groups such as the NRA, largely comprised of white Conservatives. Some bloggers suggest that NRA even put out this publication, described as depicting …people of Asian,…
Murphy Challenges Steyn on Human Rights
M.J. Murphy of BigCityLib blog challenges Mark Steyn to be consistent in his critique of Human Rights Commissions when they rightly target hate speech found in other quarters. Other Liberal bloggers have made similar comments…
The Oakes Test and Human Rights Tribunals
Levant on Anti-Homosexual Pastors In an article in the National Post titled, Drug dealers get the benefit of the Charter, but not pastors accused of homophobia, Ezra Levant, founder of the Western Standard and currently…
2007 International Privacy Ranking
Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center recently published their 2007 privacy rankings of the state of surveillance and privacy protection in 70 countries. Prof. Simon Fodden of Osgoode Hall comments on Slaw, Clearly intended…
My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad…
Anver Emon on Honour Killings
Anver M. Emon of the UofT Faculty blog shares an editorial he published in the National Post recently on the case of Aqsa Pervez. As a professor of Islamic law, I teach my students about…
Blogging Heads: Liberty vs. Security
Jack Balkin of Yale Law School, blogger at Balkinization, and author of Cybercrime, speaks with Eric Posner of the University of Chicago Law School on the balance between liberty and security. The New York…
Showcasing through iPhone Humour
Tom Goldstein, Partner at Akin Gump and contributor at SCOTUS Blog, posted this homemade YouTube video about his personal iPhone. Carolyn Elefant of Legal Blog Watch comments, Goldstein subtly conveys that (1) he has direct…
Bowman’s Making the Grades
Gregory W. Bowman, Associate Professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, just finished marking exams at his law school. He shares some interesting insights from a teacher’s perspective, such as, professors teach for free,…
Law is Cool wins Clawbie Award
The Canadian Law Blog Awards (CLawBies) has identified this site for the Legal Culture Award: 3) Legal Culture Award – LawisCool.com – This group of Canadian law student bloggers has offered up some great commentary…
Muslim group irked by columnist’s book
LawIsCool is reproducing the piece below for a legal interest sake alone. This site is not officially affiliated with the case in any way. Muslim group irked by columnist’s book December 31, 2007 By Barry…