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Lessening Us: The Supreme Court and SNC-Lavalin
The SNC-Lavalin episode gets worse, if that is possible.
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The Empty Canard of the Living Tree “Doctrine”
In 1989, Justice Scalia gave a speech entitled “Assorted Canards of Contemporary Legal Analysis.” These “canards,” are “certain oft-repeated statements…” that, while having “little actual impact upon the decision of the case” are “part of its atmospherics, or of its overarching philosophy…” Justice Scalia gave the example of the old adage that “remedial statutes should
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Bad Taste
Overzealous prosecutors in Québec charge the author and publisher of a novel with child pornography for describing a rape
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Does the Constitution Mean Anything?
In defence of textualism in constitutional interpretation
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A Perspective from the North
A review of Jeffrey Pojanowski’s “neoclassical” approach to administrative law
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Our Pythic Judges: SNC-Lavalin
In Ancient Greece, travelers from far and wide descended upon the Oracle at Delphi. Known collectively as the Pythia, these priestesses or women of Delphi, over generations, provided advice and counsel to anyone wishing to seek it. The Pythia were thought to channel the god Apollo. As the mythology of the Pythia grew, with kings
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Climb Out!
The Québec Court of Appeal errs in holding that corporations are protected against cruel and unusual punishment
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Our Government
Some implications from Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony
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Such a Person
A recent biography highlights (some of) Thomas Cromwell’s influence on the constitution
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Justice Beetz’s Unity of Public Law
What an old SCC case tells us about the unity of public law
Double Aspect 