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Chan on the Summer Jobs Programme
Announcing a guest post on the “attestation” applicants to the federal government’s Summer Jobs Programme must provide Continue reading
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Stupid but Constitutional
More on why I think legislation forcing floor-crossing legislators to run in by-elections is not unconstitutional Continue reading
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A Right to Rat?
A Manitoba MLA claims there is a Charter right to cross the floor. He is wrong. Continue reading
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A Respectful Dissent From the Khadr Consensus: Ward Revisited
The case of Omar Khadr gives scholars a rare opportunity to question the fundamentals of public law damages. Such damages are notoriously difficult to quantify. As Lord Shaw once put it, “the restoration by way of compensation is therefore accomplished to a large extent by the exercise of a sound imagination and the practice of Continue reading
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Mancini on Khadr
Announcing a guest post by Mark Mancini on the Khadr Settlement Continue reading
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New Year, New Look
For 2017, Double Aspect has a new look and a new address Continue reading
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#Clawbies2016
My nominations for this year’s Clawbies, and some other recommendations December in the Southern hemisphere means that summer, not winter, is around the corner, and while the Santa Parade and Christmas trees are all there, they mostly provoke cognitive dissonance in those of us used to their being accompanied by snow (or grumblings about the Continue reading
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Passing Observations
Some thoughts on writing exams, from a guy who just graded 240 of them As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I recently graded (or, as we say in New Zealand, marked) more than 240 exam papers (or scripts). So I thought I’d volunteer some observations, in case any students who might be reading this are Continue reading
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