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…
Articles by David Shulman
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…
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…
University of Windsor Faculty: What Are They Striking About?
The Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) has been on strike since Wednesday, 17 September. WUFA consists of all faculty, sessional instructors, librarians, and other academic staff. As a result, there are no classes. As someone…
Harper Picks Justice Thomas Cromwell to Complete S.C.C.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Nova Scotia appeal judge Thomas Cromwell to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. Justice Cromwell will succeed Justice Michel Bastarache, who retired from the S.C.C. on 30 June…
B.C. C.A. Upholds Controversial Abortion Clinic “bubble-zone law”
B.C.’s highest court has dismissed a constitutional challenge to the province’s Access to Abortion Services Act, which restricts protesters around abortion clinics to a distance of 30 meters. The law was enacted by the provincial legislature in…
Thoughts at the Precipice of Law
My social orientation at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, begins in two days. Since I have not yet studied the law, or ever adequately “experienced†the law (been arrested, or cameoed on Law…