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Law is Cool has been nominated for the Canadian Blog Awards. You can vote for us here: Best Group Blog Best Professional Blog One of our contributors, Devin Johnston, can also be found here: Best…
Can Speed Reading Get You Through Law School?
As every law student knows (except maybe Dany), there’s a lot of reading in law school. wikiHow has an entry on speed reading that might be useful. They start off with these tips: Have your…
John Miller’s Open Letter to Mark Steyn
John Miller, a journalism professor at Ryerson University, posted a series of open letters on the Maclean’s controversy. His most recent one, Open letter to Steyn, documents plagiarism and gross errors of fact. See also…
Liebeck v. Starbucks – The New Chapter of Hot Torts
We all remember the classic case of Liebeck v. McDonald’s. Well it seems other hot drink vendors didn’t learn this important lesson. A woman in Manhattan is suing Starbucks for $3 million for her hot…
Welcoming Dany Horovitz and Darcy Ammerman
Law is Cool is forever growing and expanding. We welcome our two newest contributors, Dany Horovitz of the University of Western Ontario, and Darcy Ammerman of the University of Ottawa. Dany Horovitz is in his…
7 Ways To Lose An Argument Before It’s Started
Jonathan Fields provides 7 things you don’t want to do if you want to win an argument. For most advocates, that’s usually an important thing: Don’t Attack Don’t fail to acknowledge and validate another person’s…
CUPE 3903 Strike Update from Osgoode
Disclaimer The information I’ve compiled for this little blog entry may have come from CUPE 3903’s website, York’s press releases, updates from Osgoode staff and faculty, and random picketers on the picket lines as I…
Why You Should Never Steal a 1L’s Laptop
You might end up looking like this: The laptop contained four months of case notes. In a frantic frenzy, the law student ripped the bat from the attacker and retaliated to retrieve his “baby.” h/t…
Law is Cool Podcast: Human Rights Commissions (Episode 17)
If you have been following magazines and blogs for the past year, you are probably aware of the human rights and free speech controversy involving Mark Steyn and Maclean’s. Starting in 2005, Maclean’s ran a series…
Building Careers in Health Law
Building Careers in Health Law: Inaugural Event of the HLSA at UofO by Natasha Danson and Darcy Ammerman of UofO Law Health law is an emerging and exciting field in Canada. The Health Law Student…
ABA Journal Survey on the Economy
The ABA Journal asked us to post a survey on the state of the economy and the current job market for lawyers. The results will be posted in their January issue. You can help them…
Early Release for Weight
Earlier this year we raised the question of how the justice system will deal with the obesity epidemic. We just got what might be our first test case. Michel Lapointe, aka Big Mike, got early…