Prostitution laws challenged in court
Sex workers set to launch landmark challenge Tracey Tyler writes for the Toronto Star: “The one thing I can tell you from looking at this, both as an academic and as a person constructing a…
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CIRA, whois and IP Osgoode
Check out my post about CIRA’s ‘whois’ policy on the recently launched IP Osgoode wesbite. I wrote it as an assignment for my IP law class with professor D’Agostino.
Osgoode Looking to Undergo Makeover
“I was practically embarrassed to see such a horrible looking building,†[business leader and philanthropist, Ignat Kaneff, said] of his visit to the school where his daughter, Kristina, is a student. “It was awful.†Many…
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…
OHLJ’s Environment Law issue is out
The Summer 2008 issue of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal is out, and it’s completely dedicated to environmental law. Stepan Wood, an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, is the guest editor. Most in…
Osgoode Francophone Society
Osgoode Hall Law School has had its own Francophone Society since January. We started with a tiny weekly conversation club last year even before officially registering with Legal and Lit. About ten or fifteen French language…
Last year in Osgoode (and the Law Journal)
I am lucky enough to be a senior editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal in the year of its 50th anniversary. To mark this occasion the Journal is publishing a series of special issues…