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Romancing the Law
An ode to formalism and reflections on Runnymede’s Law and Freedom Conference
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Doré Adrift
Why the Supreme Court’s approach to the Charter in the context of administrative law fails to live up to its promises
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Maryniuk on Doré
The Supreme Court’s decision in Doré v Barreau du Québec, 2012 SCC 12, [2012] 1 SCR 395 continues to be one of its most consistently criticized. It was, for instance, one of the most frequently mentioned as being among the Court’s worst by the participants in our recent 12 Days of Christmas symposium. Even more
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Doing Right on Rights
Why the Supreme Court was right to find the disenfranchisement of Canadians abroad unconstitutional
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“A Profound Attachment”
The Supreme Court holds that disenfranchising Canadians abroad is unconstitutional
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John Finnis and the Law Society
Would the Law Society of Ontario punish a scholar for failing to promote equality, diversity, and inclusion? What about those who defended such a scholar’s academic freedom?
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The Canadian Legal Mandarinate
Why we ran the 12 Days of Christmas symposium
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Day Twelve: Leonid Sirota
It’s easy enough to make a list of very bad Supreme Court decisions ― there is no shortage of material. The challenge, rather, is to reduce the list to some fixed number. Anyway, here’s my attempt, influenced in part by a wish to present cases from a variety of areas and to highlight some that have
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Day Eleven: Geoff Sigalet
Post-doctoral Fellow at the Queen’s Faculty of Law and Research Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Constitutional Law Center Thanks very much to Leonid Sirota and Mark Mancini for kindly inviting me to contribute to this symposium. I thought about which cases to include in my list of the “worst” Supreme Court cases of the 1967-2017
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Day Ten: Mark Mancini
We at Double Aspect are very excited to host this important symposium. As I’ve written before, I think it is necessary for observers to turn a critical eye to the Supreme Court’s cases. Those of us interested in doing so should not shirk behind the ceremony of the bench. Here is my list of the
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