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Canadian public law and other exciting things


  • September 19, 2017

    Not That Kind of Voting

    What New Zealand’s Electoral Commission’s attempt to boost turnout gets wrong about voting, and what we can learn from it

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    Law and economics, Law of Democracy
    elections, New Zealand, political ignorance, politics, voting
  • August 29, 2017

    Chicane de cours, bis

    La querelle constitutionnelle entre la Cour supérieure et le gouvernement du Québec mérite le sérieux, pas la dérision

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    Constitutional law, The Justice System
    cours, courts, Provincial Courts, Québec, section 96, Superior Courts
  • August 28, 2017

    The Rule against Violence

    A timely opinion on freedom of expression by Justice Miller for the Ontario Court of Appeal

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    Constitutional law
    Charter, freedom of expression, natural law, protest, violence
  • August 27, 2017

    Stupid but Constitutional

    More on why I think legislation forcing floor-crossing legislators to run in by-elections is not unconstitutional

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    Constitutional law, Law of Democracy, Uncategorized
    Charter, floor-crossing, freedom of association, parliamentary privilege, politics, transfuges
  • August 25, 2017

    A Right to Rat?

    A Manitoba MLA claims there is a Charter right to cross the floor. He is wrong.

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    Constitutional law, Law of Democracy, Uncategorized
    Charter, floor-crossing, Manitoba, politics, transfuges
  • August 8, 2017

    Polyphony

    How different constitutional orders respond to attempts at denying citizens access to adjudication

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    Constitutional law, Constitutional Theory, The Justice System
    access to justice, comparative law, empirical turn, hearing fees, judicial review, Rule of Law, UK
  • August 1, 2017

    Dark Vision

    A critique of a “vision” of the courts as moral authorities.

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    Legal philosophy, Political philosophy
    Canada, courts, Lord Acton, morality
  • July 30, 2017

    Judicial Independence in America

    A look at the conventions of judicial independence in the United States

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    The Justice System
    constitutional conventions, judicial independence, United States
  • July 25, 2017

    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

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  • July 25, 2017

    Mancini on Khadr

    Announcing a guest post by Mark Mancini on the Khadr Settlement

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    Uncategorized
    blogging, Guest Posts
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