ideology
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The Left
What is the political left, at its core, and why is it wrong? Continue reading
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Justice Brown Was Not Purged
Concerns about the Supreme Court’s image are a more likely reason for Brown J’s departure than ideology Continue reading
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For Your Freedom and Ours
Honouring and learning from the 1968 Red Square Demonstration Continue reading
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The Limits of Legal Expertise
What kind of experts are legal experts ― and is their authority in danger? Continue reading
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Politics in, and of, Law Schools
That legal education is tied up with politics is no excuse for indoctrination or ideological homogeneity Continue reading
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Smoke and Mirrors
The new process for appointing judges to the Supreme Court is nothing to be happy about Last week, the Prime Minister announced a new(-ish) appointments process for judges of the Supreme Court of Canada. The announcement was met with praise by many, and criticism by some. For my part, I am with the critics. Far from being a Continue reading
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Ideologies in the Marketplace of Ideas
The “marketplace of ideologies” is neither new nor quite disastrous In a post over at Concurring Opinions, Ronald K.L. Collins laments what he regards as the rise, in the place of the good old marketplace of ideas, of a “marketplace of ideologies.” Prof. Collins writes that in this new marketplace, ideas, facts, “the constitutional process of governing,” and Continue reading
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Consistency and Complexity in Judicial Review
In a (somewhat) recent post commenting on Justice Brown’s appointment to the Supreme Court, Paul Daly wrote about “an interesting paradox” in the world of judicial review of decisions by the “political branches” of government: “[t]hose [who] would defer to Parliament would not defer to the executive.” The “conservatives” who are skeptical of judicial review of Continue reading
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Who Are These People?
I wrote yesterday that the “conservative judicial appointments” narrative that the Globe and Mail’s Sean Fine has spent the last several months developing was essentially unsupported by the evidence. A few hours after I published my post, there was a new judicial appointment ― that of Justice Russell Brown to the Supreme Court ― and Mr. Continue reading
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What’s the Big Deal?
The Globe and Mail’s Sean Fine has for months been pushing a “conservative judicial appointments” narrative, and he was back at it this weekend, with a lengthy piece on “Stephen Harper’s Courts.” We are, I take it, supposed to be worried about a “judiciary [that] has been remade” by ideologically shaped appointments. Mr. Fine quotes quite a Continue reading
Double Aspect 