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“Bureaucratese”
Newly-minted Leader of His Majesty’s Official Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, recently announced that he plans to propose a “plain-language law” to tackle “bureaucratese.” According to Poilievre, bureaucratese “costs the economy a fortune.” His proposal will “require government publications to use the fewest and simplest words needed to state information.” Now, much of this proposal is probably Continue reading
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F-Words
Some words and arguments to avoid in law school exams Continue reading
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Some Major Questions About Major Questions
In West Virginia v EPA, the Supreme Court of the United States, wielding the “major questions doctrine” found that the EPA did not have the statutory authority to adopt regulations implementing the Clean Power Plan, initially proposed by the Obama administration in 2015. In this post, I describe why I think this decision was ultimately Continue reading
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Nothing Doing
A brief rebuttal to responses to my last post on inappropriate criticism of the US Supreme Court’s abortion decision Continue reading
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Glad to Be Unhappy
Some people in liberal societies are unhappy. But what exactly does this tell us? Continue reading
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Let Us Reason Together
A call for dialogue on constitutional interpretation, free from anti-originalist myths Continue reading
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Of Malice and Men
Double Aspect responds to attacks on another scholar Continue reading
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Contrarians at the Gates
On responsible scholarship and engagement with heterodox ideas Continue reading
Double Aspect 