The Law of Self Sacrifice
The Law of Self Sacrifice: When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
Lawyer Disbarred for Student Debt
As reported by The Globe and Mail, Houston-based lawyer Frank Santulli has been stripped of his licence to practice law because of his student debt. Santulli has carried US$67,000 in outstanding loans since 1998 and…
Ontario Ombudsman
The office of Ontario Ombudsman is on Twitter and Facebook. The Ombudsman is a pretty unique independent oversight officer accountable directly to the provincial legislature. He investigates people’s complaints under the authority granted by the…
Official Launch of Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP)
First post of three on projects at Windsor Law fighting racial discrimination On February 5th, 2009, the Faculty of Law hosted the official launch of LEAP. LEAP is the first law school project of its…
New IP Writing Award
The Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and IP Osgoode are delighted to announce a new Canadian writing challenge in intellectual property law. Submissions may be in French or in English. To help advance such…
The Law of Drunkenness
The Law of Drunkenness: You can’t fall off the floor
Government’s Case Against Resisters Faulty
The Harper government attempts to justify deporting U.S. Iraq War resisters with a familiar, but untrue, narrative. They say that unlike during the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers are volunteers and are not considered refugees by…
Facebook: Internet’s Link Police
Recently, our beloved facebook has decided to start policing the links that are posted to its members’ profiles. Citing “controversies” and “ongoing lawsuits”, facebooks has unilaterally decided that links to The Pirate Bay are now…
SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out
The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in R. v. Patrick, 2009 SCC 17, which concerns privacy interests in garbage and other abandoned items. The Court ruled that a police search of garbage abandoned…
German Multinational Loses Teapot Battle
First posted on Commercial Law International on April 3, 2009. It is an understatement to say that the English take their tea very seriously. And it is little wonder why a small teashop in Surrey,…
Real Media Don’t Die, We Multiply
If you’ve been alive and on the Internet in the past year you would have read the obituaries – print newspapers are dead. Or dying, so they claim. Some are even claiming the recession with…
Flexibility, Please
Blame the current economic crisis on too much debt taken on with too little research. Nobel Prize winning economist Myron Scholes lectured at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law on March 19, packing…