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The Only Thing Worse Than Being Talked About
Is being talked about in a court decision that’s available online for all to see. At least if you’ve sued a former employer, and are looking for a new job. At the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh reports on a case in which a man who believes he lost employment opportunities because prospective employers found out…
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À quoi sert le lieutenant-gouverneur?
Le Globe and Mail a publié une chronique intéressante de Carolyn Harris, une historienne (et auteure d’un blogue sur l’histoire de la monarchie), réagissanat aux récents propos de Pauline Marois concernant la monarchie canadienne et, plus spécifiquement, l'(in)utilité du lieutenant-gouverneur dans la structure constitutionnelle québécoise. Selon ce que rapporte Mme Harris, Mme Marois aurait affirmé…
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Oui… Non… Peut-Être?
La question de l’application de règles de la Loi électorale québécoise concernant les dépenses électorales des citoyens à des activités sur internet, que j’ai déjà abordée ici et ici, refait encore surface. Selon un article de Radio-Canada, le Directeur général des élections a d’abord conclu que liberaux.net, un site farouchement opposé au Parti libéral du Québec,…
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Legal Self-Services, Part Deux
Just a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the impact of a “self-service mentality” on the legal profession. This mentality, I suggested, is part of what explains the surge in self-representation. Josh Blackman, of South Texas College of Law, says something similar in a blog post, but his perspective is different and more optimistic. Prof. Blackman points…
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Legal Self-Services
Jim Gardner, of SUNY Buffalo, has an interesting post at The Faculty Lounge, arguing that [t]he capacity to acquire information, shop, travel, and do almost anything without human intermediation is conceived as a right, or at least a new baseline norm. Insistence upon the necessity of human interaction as a condition for completing a transaction…
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Brandishing Banishment
There was an interesting op-ed yesterday in the Globe & Mail, by Lorne Neudorf, a Cambridge PhD candidate, discussing the status and use of banishment as a punishment in Canadian law. Contrary to what we might be incline to suppose, banishment, understood as a legal injunction preventing the person subject to it from living in…
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Interpreting Interpretations
I would like to come back to the two cases I mentioned in yesterday’s post―A.-G. Canada v A.-G. Ontario, [1937] A.C. 326, better known as the Labour Conventions Reference, and Missouri v. Holland, because they might tell us something about a problem much broader than the issue (important though it is in its own right) that…
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Go Ask Your Mom!
Is it conceivable that states, like a child who, denied by one parent, asks the other to let them stay up late, ask around for permission to do something they would not normally be permitted? Lord Atkin enlisted the threat of such a course of action as an argument in his famous opinion for the…
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This Is Not a Post
I’m sorry I’ve been silent these last few days, and will still be this weekend. I hope to resume normal blogging on Monday.
Double Aspect 