What can judges really do?
Judges are powerful people. Sometimes, misconceptions about their power lead to calls for an elected judiciary or some other form of outside intervention in our courts. These are all bad ideas. Our judiciary must be…
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The purpose of blawgs
More than a year ago I wrote a post entitled “How lawyers think.†Its basic idea is that a lawyer’s job is to maximize legal protection of his client’s rights. Protecting rights means either of…
Weird Legal News: Collapsing Courthouses and the Constitutional Right to Rap
Here’s another digest of some articles I collected this week that are either funny, interesting, or just plain weird. Bronx court fester - $421 mil building is sinking – NY Post Just two years after being…
How lawyers think
We as a society know too little about lawyers. We believe some myths about lawyers (for example, that they are rich), but we know little truth about them. It’s pretty strange given the two critical…
Battle Over A Bottle, Beer: A Serious Thing In Canada…Eh
First posted on Commercial Law International on Feb 18, 2009. If you didn’t know already Canadians take their beer very seriously. And I don’t just mean on the consumption side. Brewing in Canada is a…