Case Comment – Gomboc Decision, 2010 SCC 55
Here is a link to my website for a case comment on the Gomboc that will be published in an upcoming issue of RegQuest. Enjoy the reading.
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UWO Law Welcomes AIDWYC @ Western
AIDWYC. Â Does that mean anything to you? I, Ryan Venables, am very please to announce that thanks to Jonathan Thoburn and Lisa Lutwak, a couple of very keen and persistent (that’s a good thing) 1L…
Breaking into the Field of Criminal Law
While I really should be studying for the bar exam right now, I couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to share a great article appearing in the current issue of Canadian Lawyer 4Students Magazine. The…
UWO Student’s Charges Stayed…
In an interesting twist, the Crown has decided to stay all charges against fourth year UWO student Irnes Zeljkovic. Zeljkovic’s incident involving UWO Campus and London Police made national headlines late last year when he…
The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand
From Volume III, Issue II of Amicus Curiae, Western Law’s Student Paper Canada was a different place before Trudeaumania swept the nation, and the man we know as Ivan Rand, founding Dean of this law…
Strikers To Target Students…
Yesterday at 00:01, the London Transit Commission went on strike for the first time in almost 30 years. Â The local 741 Amalgamated Transit Union and the City of London are, depending on who you talk…
My Fourth Year of Law School
From the October 2009 issue of Amicus Curiae Many law students find law school to be so painful that few can understand or relate when I say I actually enjoy the ordeal. They would probably…
Why Choose Ivey
Every beginning is a consequence – every beginning ends some thin. ~ Paul Valery I kid you not; it is 2:52am according to my computer. I just got home from one of those nights that…
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…
Irrational Exhuberance and the Animal Spirits
This post was created and posted in real-time, before the talk was even concluded. For a more detailed article on the same talk see the UWO Law website. People will always act rationally, right? That’s…
Catching Up
Cross-Posted from the Financial Post Executive Blog I’m surprised how long it’s been since I last wrote; my life has been a whirlwind of activity for the past several weeks. Let me bring you up…
UWO Strike Averted
A strike at the University of Western Ontario has been averted after the school reached an agreement with the union.