Aimee Green of The Oregonian reports, An attorney for Aurora Hill filed suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon — stirring memories of a controversial 1994 suit in which a jury awarded $2.86 million…
Democracy Now has an interview with Dr. Gabor Maté of Insite, AMY GOODMAN: The Obama administration’s budget proposal for the Office of National Drug Control Policy sets aside nearly twice the amount of funding for…
T.J. Burke, the former Attorney-General of New Brunswick, made this interesting statement to the Legislature recently: Burke resigned from Cabinet in July of last year to practice law, but remained a Member of the Legislative…
From Volume III, Issue II of Amicus Curiae, Western Law’s Student Paper Canada was a different place before Trudeaumania swept the nation, and the man we know as Ivan Rand, founding Dean of this law…
A person who hates Jews is more likely to hate Muslims as well, and vice versa. And people who go to a weekly religious service are less likely to hate a Muslim. These findings come…
David Lat of Above the Law says, Many 3Ls these days are angry and frustrated. If the allegations are true, one has resorted to gun violence (and not just against his casebooks)… If the allegations…
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Opposition, spoke to students at the University of Toronto – Mississauga today. He addressed recent comments about airport security and the use of profiling, as well as discrimination generally in…
Despite all the hype about body scanners, there are some very significant limitations to their use. One issue is limitation of use on children, which can violate child pornography laws. Statements by Canadian officials that…
The Earl of Kent in Shakespeare’s King Lear (1603) refers to Oswald in Act II Scene II as, …nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a…
We seem to be getting mixed messages today about the use of body scanners in Canada. The Privacy Commissioner of Canada conducted two Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) for the Canadian Air Transport Security Association (CATSA)…
The most recent controversy around Wikipedia, and there are plenty to come I’m sure, surrounds Ron Livingston, an actor in Office Space who starred briefly in Sex in the City. Well it’s Livingston’s sex, or…
This riddle actually goes back to the Sumerian civilization, translated from ancient cuneiform: Three ox drivers from Adab were thirsty: one owned the ox, the other owned the cow and the other owned the wagon’s…
