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Double Aspect

Canadian public law and other exciting things


  • May 8, 2026

    You Can’t Have a Pony

    The solution to the Supreme Court’s problems is long, hard work — not coddling populists

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    Constitutional law
    legal conservative movement, notwithstanding clause, populism, Supreme Court of Canada
  • May 7, 2026

    Indefensible

    There is no defence for the Supreme Court’s erratic approach to constitutional interpretation

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    constitutional interpretation, precedent, Rule of Law, Supreme Court of Canada
  • May 6, 2026

    The Rest Is Noise

    We can’t just be discerning about which of the Supreme Court’s pronouncements on constitutional interpretation to pay attention. None of them mean anything.

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    Constitutional law
    constitutional interpretation, Rule of Law, Supreme Court of Canada
  • May 4, 2026

    Spinning the Wheel

    The Supreme Court keeps changing its approach to constitutional interpretation, with no acknowledgment or explanation

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    Constitutional law
    constitutional interpretation, legal doctrine, parliamentary privilege, Supreme Court of Canada
  • April 9, 2026

    Nothing Matters Still

    The Supreme Court’s recent pronouncements on constitutional interpretation are inconsistent with precedent, but the Court doesn’t care

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    Constitutional law
    constitutional interpretation, precedent, Supreme Court of Canada
  • March 24, 2026

    The Cavemen Are Back

    The Supreme Court’s majority goes back to constitutionalism from Plato’s cave, which earlier cases seemed to abandon

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    Constitutional law
    constitutional interpretation, living constitutionalism, purposivism, Supreme Court of Canada, textualism, vibes
  • March 23, 2026

    Moving Rights

    A summary of the opinions on constitutional interpretation in the Supreme Court’s interprovincial travel decision

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    Constitutional law
    bilingualism, Canada, Charter, constitutional interpretation, mobility rights, purposivism
  • February 24, 2026

    Forget Me Not

    Introducing an article about the forgetting of Canadian constitutional conventions

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    Constitutional law
    Canada, constitutional conventions, government formation, populism
  • February 13, 2026

    What Is Going On?

    Is the federal government in the process of giving away its judicial appointment powers?

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    Alberta, Canada, judicial appointments, Quebec
  • January 12, 2026

    The Kiwis Do It Better

    Introducing a new article on sentences of life imprisonment without parole

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    Constitutional law, Criminal Law/Policy
    Canada, cruel and unusual punishment, European Court of Human Rights, life without parole, New Zealand
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  • You Can’t Have a Pony
  • Indefensible
  • The Rest Is Noise
  • Spinning the Wheel
  • Nothing Matters Still
  • The Cavemen Are Back
  • Moving Rights
  • Forget Me Not
  • What Is Going On?
  • The Kiwis Do It Better

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