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…
Linda McKay-Panos of UofA’s UofC’s ABlawg reviews the case in Coward v. Alberta (2008) that came out this summer. Mr. Coward was approached by the police and searched on the basis that he was black. …
Google Chrome is expected to give IE and FIrefox a run for their money. Google has changed its position on open source software several times this month. One feature that has drawn attention are its…
Christina Spencer of the Winnipeg Sun reports, If Prime Minister Stephen Harper forces a federal election in the coming days, a law professor at the University of Ottawa may go to court to challenge the…
In the summer before my first year of law school I had a lot of opportunities to go the extra mile by reading books, going to orientations, taking campus tours and enrolling in prep courses…
It’s not quite topical or typical of what we normally post at Law is Cool, but an article appearing in the New York Times yesterday was so interesting to me that I thought it worth…
This statement summarizes the personal attitude that Prime Minister Stephen Harper takes on “the abortion issue.†This was during the 2006 election campaign, at a time when the Liberals raised alarm over the Conservatives’ position…
In my first podcast for Law is Cool, I had a conference call with Dr. Sam Trosow and a group of political bloggers about copyright and Bill C-61. They are concerned about the impact of…
Check out my posts on Slaw for this week: Open Source Here in Google, There in Quebec, and Maybe Everywhere Maple Leaf Scare Provides Meat for Thought Examining Fault/No Fault Medical Insurance The Wonder that…
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…
I am very happy to welcome David Shulman, an incoming first year law student at the University of Windsor to our team of contributors at Law is Cool. David Shulman holds a Hons. B.A. from…
Who likes to lug around those big, heavy law textbooks? Not me, that’s for sure. Frederic Lardinois of ReadWriteWeb provides some web applications and plug-in extensions to help reduce the number of books and resources…
