Saddam Hussein’s Dysfunctional House of War
Ubaka Ogbogu over at UofA blog mentioned the new HBO series House of Saddam. Although I only caught a few episodes, here are my preliminary thoughts on the series. Accurate Information in the Fog of…
International Law
Defending the “Guilty”
An interesting situation is developing in India as certain members of the Bombay Bar have unofficially declared that no lawyer is going to defend the lone terrorist caught in the Mumbai attacks of 26/11. At…
Med Students Think They’re Isolated? Hah, Wimps!
A study a couple months ago indicated that medical students are socially segregated from each other. The reasons included: High workloads school located outside the main campus High numbers of contact hours, outside the university…
Back on dry land, a country is drowning
Ahmed Hussen, The Ottawa Citizen Reproduced with the permission of the author Foreign navies are not likely to be able to completely eradicate pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia — such as the audacious…
Batman, Turkey Sues Warner Bros.
It’s not the first time a city or location is suing for intellectual property in its name. But it’s probably the first time a major blockbuster has been the target of the lawsuit. The city…
Confessions of an Obamaniac in Canada
Obamania… Mania.. in the House With the U.S. presidential elections only days away now, it seems we might just have a president that is more popular abroad than he is at home for the first…
Former Slave Wins Landmark Case
The government of Niger has been found guilty of failing to protect one of its citizens from slavery. Hadijatou Mani brought her case before the Court of Justice of the West African regional body Ecowas…
International Law Conference Tackles Tough Contemporary Issues
By Daisy McCabe-Lokos of Windsor Law. The Canadian Council on International Law held their 37th annual conference last weekend in Ottawa. The conference ran three days and showcased a range of panels discussing a variety…
CBA Joins Fight to Repatriate Omar Khadr
The Canadian Bar Association has announced that it is joining with a number of other agencies to fight for the repatriation of Omar Khadr to Canada. Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old boy at the time of…
International Customary Law Part of Common Law in Canada
H. Scott Fairley, a Theall Group LLP partner, wrote an lucid and compelling comment on R. v. Hape in the last issue of The Globetrotter. In that decision, the Supreme Court formally admitted international customary…
Rae: Canada Has Its Own Voice on the International Scene
Hon. Bob Rae spoke this morning at the University of Western Ontario Law School on A Changing World: New Directions for Canadian Foreign Policy. What follows are notes (not a transcript) from his talk. Law…
Credit-Related Derivatives are “Financial WMD’s”
American investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet calls credit-related derivatives a financial weapon of mass destruction, and he claims they just went off. Prof. Jesse Fried of Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley,…