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When the Surgeons Miss
Federalism and the Genetic Non-Discrimination Act Reference
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The Self-Own of Court-Packing
2020 dealt us another major blow last week, when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87. Justice Ginsburg, agree or disagree with her jurisprudentially, was an inspiration to many. Rightly so. She was a trailblazer. Incidentally, for anyone interested, there is a great movie about her life in the law: “On
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Of Malice and Men
Double Aspect responds to attacks on another scholar
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Just Hook It to My Veins
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s excellent lecture on statutory and constitutional interpretation
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Contrarians at the Gates
On responsible scholarship and engagement with heterodox ideas
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On John Willis and the Pesky Politics of Administrative Law
John Willis was and is considered one of Canada’s most important administrative law academics. As a student of administrative law and the law of judicial review, one cannot skip Willis’ classic works, like his books “The Parliamentary Powers of English Government Departments” and “Canadian Boards at Work”—and his caustic papers, including his attack on the
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On Responsible Scholarship
A Reply to Stepan Wood, Meinhard Doelle, and Dayna Scott
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Unstuck
Ontario’s Superior Court strikes down the anti-carbon tax-sticker law, but still doesn’t get freedom of expression
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Throwing Away the Key
Thoughts on life imprisonment without parole, in New Zealand and in Canada
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Vavilov in the Prisons
By now, Vavilov—the case in which the Supreme Court re-jigged Canada’s standard of review framework—has received sustained attention, including from yours truly. Over at Administrative Law Matters, Professor Daly has a running post outlining how Vavilov has been applied in some particular interesting cases. And on SSRN, Jamie Chai Yun Liew has an excellent article
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