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Do Interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada Make a Difference?

Posted on November 02, 2009
Andrew Green and I have just posted a draft of a new paper to SSRN, Interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada: Accuracy, Affiliation, and Acceptance. This is a work in progress that has been prepared for this Friday's Symposium on Interventions by the Asper Centre here at the Faculty of Law...

Profs. Trebilcock and Iacobucci - "Patent protection, the new mother of invention"

Posted on September 30, 2009
This commentary was first published on the Globe and Mail website on September 22, 2009. After years of effort, a Toronto startup company called i4i invented an important piece of technology to dramatically enhance software programs, such as Microsoft Word...

Prof. Anita Anand - "Why macro is prudent"

Posted on September 24, 2009
This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on September 23, 2009. The G20 leaders meet today in Pittsburgh. While macroprudential regulation is likely to be on the agenda, countries continue to wrestle with how, if at all, this concept fits within existing legal frameworks and indeed whether new regulators or committees will be created in each country...

Discussion of Prof. Ayelet Shachar's new book

Posted on August 17, 2009
As noted in an earlier post, Prof. Ayelet Shachar recently published her latest book, The Birthright Lottery. It has received a considerable amount of attention. A story on the front page of the "Insight" section of the Saturday Toronto Star ("Born lucky? Then pay for it," May 2, 2009) discussed Prof...

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Copyright Collectives: Good Solution But for Which Problem?

Posted on August 14, 2009
With the Public Copyright Consultations moving full steam ahead, various stake-holders raise proposals for expanding the scope of collective administration of copyright. This trend is not new. Over the past two decades or so, collective administration of copyright has been touted as a solution to many of the ills of the copyright system and to many of the legal challenges...

Prof. Ed Morgan: A Terrorist on the Faculty?

Posted on August 10, 2009
Cross-posted from www.NewMajority.com (first published July 31, 2009) The Middle East dispute may seem interminable, but its shadow conflict ? the one being waged on university campuses ? appears every bit as complex and insoluble. The latest round in Canada involves Hassan Diab, an Ottawa-based lecturer who for a number of years has had a part time appointment teaching Introduction...

Prof. Ed Morgan: "An insidious cultural campaign"

Posted on July 21, 2009
This commentary by Prof. Ed Morgan was first published in the National Post on July 2, 2009. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are being exhibited this week at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), have survived time, weather, sand--and now the political storm caused by protests at their being toured by the Israel Museum, which houses the scrolls in Jerusalem...

Militant Democracy and the Martyrdom of Marwa Sherbini

Posted on July 10, 2009

Prof. Mohammad Fadel on Family Pluralism

Posted on July 02, 2009
I have recently posted a draft of a chapter to be published in a forthcoming work on family law pluralism (MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE IN A MULTICULTURAL CONTEXT: RECONSIDERING THE BOUNDARIES OF CIVIL LAW AND RELIGION, Joel A. Nichols, ed., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2010) to my ssrn page (http://papers...

Prof. Jacob Ziegel writes: Mike Rosenberg Wins Strosberg Prize

Posted on June 08, 2009
Students and Faculty members will be delighted to learn that Mike Rosenberg, JD III, has won this year's prestigious Harvey Strosberg prize, worth ten thousand dollars, awarded each year for the best student paper on a class action topic. The paper will be published in the Canadian Class Action Law Review under the title of "The Rise and Imminent Fall...

Prof. Mohammad Fadel - "President Obama Passes the Muslim Test"

Posted on June 08, 2009
I have written some very brief comments on President Obama?s speech yesterday in Cairo on the web page of patheos.com. Essentially, I stated that Obama?s speech could genuinely represent an important break from U.S. policy towards the Islamic world in general and the Arab world in particular...

Prof. Ed Morgan - "It's a legal maze for Canadian authorities abroad"

Posted on May 29, 2009
This commentary by Prof. Ed Morgan was first published in The Globe and Mail on May 27, 2009. Canadians may be surprised to learn a few things about our constitutional law. First, the military owes no duty toward detainees arrested by us and turned over to a foreign state for custody...

DLS Executive Director Judith McCormack - "When poverty becomes respectable"

Posted on May 28, 2009
Judith McCormack is the executive director of Downtown Legal Services, the community legal clinic of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. First published in the Toronto Star on May 17, 2009. As painful as the current economic crisis may be, it does at least provide us with some valuable insights...

Ed Morgan - "In Yellowknife, language rights go back on the menu"

Posted on April 21, 2009
First published in the Globe and Mail, April 21, 2009. In taking on the chef who runs the famed Wildcat Cafe, Yellowknife's city council appears to have concocted a recipe for bringing Quebec-style language politics to the Northwest Territories. In the process, it has given us the basis for a constitutional crise du jour...

Book Launch and Panel Discussion: Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis - Live Webcast

Posted on April 20, 2009
The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights will be hosting a book launch for the new book Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis: The Dilemmas, Choices and Future of Parliamentary Government in Canada on Tuesday April 21 at 4:30 pm. The book launch will include a panel discussion on the future of Canada's democracy: lessons learned and where to we go from...

Alarie: Charter Decisions in the McLachlin Era

Posted on April 16, 2009
Andrew Green and I have just posted a new paper on SSRN in which we analyze 105 Charter decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. Here's the abstract: This paper examines how justices on the Supreme Court of Canada voted in Charter appeals between 2000 and 2009...

Prof. Ayelet Shachar's new book, The Birthright Lottery

Posted on April 15, 2009
Prof. Ayelet Shachar's new book, The Birthright Lottery, has been published by Harvard University Press. From the publisher: The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. There is little doubt that securing membership status in a given state bequeaths to some a world filled with opportunity and condemns others to a life with...

Anita Anand - "Canada's banks: conservative by nature"

Posted on April 01, 2009
This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on March 31, 2009. In a recent interview with a major U.S. news network, Prime Minister Stephen Harper touted the fine regulatory balance that underpins the strength of Canadian financial institutions...

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Canadian bankruptcy law is out of date"

Posted on March 13, 2009
This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on March 10, 2009. Every modern society needs a balanced, well-functioning insolvency law to take care of the inevitable casualties of a free-market economy. This is true even when the economy is buoyant...

Symposium on Lifelong Learning in Professionalism: live webcast on Friday Feb. 20)

Posted on February 19, 2009
On Friday February 20, 2009, the Centre for the Legal Profession at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, is hosting a Symposium on "Lifelong Learning in Professionalism" organized by the Chief Justice of Ontario's Advisory Committee on Professionalism...

BCE Decision Roundtable, March 27, 2009

Posted on February 13, 2009
Faculty of Law, University Of TorontoFlavelle House, 78 Queen's Park, McCarthy T�trault Classroom (FLA) In December 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada released its reasons in the highly publicized BCE case, affirming that Canadian corporate directors owe their fiduciary duty to the corporation and only the corporation...

Ed Morgan - "Taking a Buy Canadian route would be a legal sell-out"

Posted on February 13, 2009
This article was first published in the Globe and Mail on February 12, 2009.In one of his more dramatic Question Period performances, the federal NDP Leader announced last week that the ?United States has had a Buy American Act for 76 years,? and that ?it's perfectly legal...

Jeffrey MacIntosh: "Pegged orders: an unfair trade"

Posted on January 15, 2009
This article was first published in the Financial Post on January 13, 2008.In the old days, stock exchanges had a monopoly on trading listed stocks. Not any more. These days, electronic platforms known as ?alternative trading systems? (ATSs) provide investors with a variety of trading forums...

Lorraine E. Weinrib: Shooting down polygamy law not necessarily a slam dunk

Posted on January 13, 2009
The following commentary by Professor Lorraine Weinrib was published in the Toronto Star, January 13, 2009.The attorney general of British Columbia has announced criminal prosecutions against two leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for breach of the Criminal Code prohibition against polygamy...

Ben Alarie: Supreme Court of Canada's Decision in Lipson

Posted on January 08, 2009
Earlier today the Supreme Court of Canada released its judgment in the Lipson case (about which I blogged earlier here). The Court was sharply divided, 4-3, in favour of dismissing the taxpayer's appeal from the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal...

Ernest Weinrib: A betrayal of the teaching profession

Posted on January 06, 2009
Sid Ryan, the President of CUPE Ontario has re-launched a campaign to boycott Israeli academics and ban them from doing speaking, teaching or research work at Ontario universities. About a year and half ago, in response to similar initiatives undertaken by Britain's University and College Union, our colleague Prof...

Anita Anand - Backing the BCE Board

Posted on December 19, 2008
Today, the Supreme Court of Canada released its long-awaited judgment in the BCE case. The Supreme Court had previously indicated that it would overturn the decision of the Quebec Court of Appeal but today we found out the bases on which it did so. We also found out the current thinking from the Court on directors duties...

Ed Morgan - "Sunshine Cases of a Little Constitution"

Posted on December 16, 2008
Prof. Ed Morgan has posted a new paper to SSRN entitled "Sunshine Cases of a Little Constitution." The paper can be downloaded here.This paper revisits some of Canada's early constitutional history, taking as a starting point the view that constitutional evolution is the country's great national project...

Lorne Sossin and Lorraine Weinrib - "Canada's constitutional 'black box'"

Posted on December 12, 2008
In a commentary in the National Post, Professors Lorraine Weinrib and Lorne Sossin argue that the Governor-General's decision-making should be public and transparent in situations such as the recent request by the Prime Minister to prorogue Parliament ("Canada's constitutional 'black box'," December 11, 2008)...

Ben Alarie - Tax-Free Savings Accounts

Posted on December 12, 2008
I've posted a new paper on SSRN that analyzes the new "tax-free savings accounts" that are soon to be available in Canada (they will be coming to a financial institution near you in January). You may recall having seen one (or more) of the now ubiquitous advertisements for the accounts...

Prorogation, Dissolution, and the Vicissitudes of Minority Government

Posted on December 11, 2008
There is a disturbing trend in much of the commentary precipitated by the events of the last two weeks culminating in Governor General Micha??l Jean???s decision to prorogue Parliament. Much of the commentary rightly notes that the decision to prorogue, and even to dissolve Parliament, is a prerogative and, therefore, a matter of discretion that rests solely with the Governor...

Peter Russell - Lessons From Our Most Recent ?Constitutional Crisis?

Posted on December 10, 2008
On Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 the University of Toronto Faculty of Law hosted a panel discussion about the Governor-General's decision to prorogue parliament. The following is a summary of the remarks made by panelist Peter Russell.Constitutional conventionsThis has been a period of great uncertainty about some of the ?unwritten? conventions of our constitution...

Lorne Sossin - "Was the Governor General's Decision to Prorogue Parliament Constitutional?"

Posted on December 09, 2008
On Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 the University of Toronto Faculty of Law hosted a panel discussion about the Governor-General's decision to prorogue parliament. The following is a summary of the remarks made by panelist Lorne Sossin.In light of the presentations, questions and comments on the panel, there are three broad constitutional principles imperiled by the recent decision by the Governor...

David Cameron - "Constitutional Crisis or Democracy in Action"

Posted on December 09, 2008
On Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 the University of Toronto Faculty of Law hosted a panel discussion about the Governor-General's decision to prorogue parliament. The following is a summary of the remarks made by panelist David Cameron.I?ll be brief. I see no reason to take more time than Stephen Harper did in his weirdly pointless address to the nation on Wednesday...

Was the Governor General's Decision to Prorogue Parliament Constitutional? Canada's Leading Scholars Weigh in on this Historic Ruling

Posted on December 09, 2008
On Friday, Dec. 5, 2008 the University of Toronto Faculty of Law hosted a panel discussion about the Governor-General's decision to prorogue parliament. The panel included leading constitutional scholars and politicians.Many of the participants have expressed an interest in continuing the discussion, and will be posting a summary of their remarks from the panel directly to the faulty blog...

Canada's Constitutional Black Box

Posted on December 08, 2008
On Thursday, Gov. Gen. Micha??lle Jean granted a request from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to prorogue Parliament until late January. She thus protected the Conservative Government from a confidence voteon Monday that would likely have toppled the minority government and perhaps prompted her to invite a Liberal-NDP coalition supported by the Bloc Quebecois to form a government...

Jacob Ziegel: "Disappointing catch in the Supreme Court"

Posted on November 21, 2008
This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on November 21, 2008.One of the important roles of the Supreme Court of Canada is to resolve conflicts among lower courts on difficult issues of law and, in the commercial sphere and other areas of consensual law, to develop rules and doctrines that promote predictability of outcomes and enhance the free-flow...

Jacob Ziegel: "Unsecured creditors have the most to lose"

Posted on November 12, 2008
This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on November 4, 2008.Last August, 4,500 Zoom Airlines passengers found themselves stranded across North America, the West Indies and various European countries when the airline ran out of money and grounded its planes...

Prof. Ed Morgan: "Fight Bad Speech With Good Speech"

Posted on November 12, 2008
This commentary was published in the National Post on November 4, 2008. It was originally published in Canadian Jewish News.In recent months, I have been invited to participate in two conferences, one put on by the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and the other by Osgoode Hall Law School...

Prof. Emeritus David Beatty: "YES: PR is more democratic"

Posted on November 07, 2008
This commentary was first published in the Toronto Star on November 1, 2008.The days and weeks following a national election are invariably a time of reflection and recrimination.The Liberals in particular are in for a period of intense soul-searching as they begin yet another leadership campaign...

Jacob Ziegel: "Promotion of Federally Appointed Judges and Appointment of Chief Justices: The Unfinished Agenda"

Posted on November 06, 2008
The following paper is a chapter in a book on JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, edited by Lorne Sossin and Adam Dodek, and expected to be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2009. The paper will also be discussed at a Faculty Seminar to be held on November 24, 2008...

Prof. Lorne Sossin: "Lawyers, Rats and the Future of the Profession"

Posted on November 05, 2008
This commentary was first published in the University of Toronto Bulletin on October 28, 2008.A year ago, a new book entitled Lawyers Are Rats made the cover of Maclean's (the book is about "how lawyers became greedy, unprincipled enablers of the rich")...

Prof. Audrey Macklin: "The Omar Khadr Case: Redefining War Crimes"

Posted on November 04, 2008
This commentary was first published on the Jurist website on October 31, 2008.George W. Bush?s term as president is coming to an end, and he has little to show by way of meting out justice for the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Perhaps this is why his administration seems so desperate to score a victory on the judicial battleground of the...

Does the Credit Crisis Implicate the Need for a National Securities Regulator?

Posted on November 03, 2008
There are strong arguments in favour of a national securities regulator which have been voiced numerous times over the past few decades: greater efficiency in transactions, consistent and coherent presence internationally, single enforcement body, uniform securities legislation, lower costs for issuers and registrants, etc...

Prof. Kent Roach: Guilt by association? Not quite

Posted on October 03, 2008
This commentary was published in the Toronto Star on September 30, 2008. The recent conviction of a young offender in the Toronto terrorism case has raised concerns that his conviction was a form of guilt by association. The Crown's star witness, Mubin Shaikh, was quick to tell reporters that he did not believe the young man was a terrorist...

New Macleans Ranking of Canadian Law Schools

Posted on September 11, 2008
The second annual Macleans ranking of Canadian law schools has been released. Here are the rankings for the common law schools this year, as compared with last year: Common Law School 2008 2007 Change Toronto 1 1 McGill 2 2 Osgoode 3 3 UBC 4 9 +5 Victoria 5 8 +3 Dalhousie 6 6 Ottawa 7 4 -3 Queen's 8...

Prof. Lorne Sossin - "Does Independence Matter?"

Posted on July 09, 2008
Prof. Lorne Sossin has published an essay in the Literary Review of Canada entitled "Does Independence Matter? From Elections Canada to the nuclear watchdog, the Harper government seems to disagree" (July/August 2008). The essay analyzes the implications of the federal government's confrontational relationship with various independent public agencies, from Elections Canada to the Canadian Military Complaints Commission to the Canadian...

Webcast: Seminar on Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario

Posted on May 02, 2008
The Faculty of Law, with the University of Toronto's Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, has initiated a seminar series on "Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy." The inaugural seminar was held on the subject of "Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario" at the Faculty of Law on March 20, 2008...

Congratulations to Prof. Ernie Weinrib

Posted on May 01, 2008
I'm delighted to report that Professor Ernie Weinrib has been elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. The American Academy of Arts & Sciences is one of the United State's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers...

Canadian Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting - Call for Papers

Posted on April 22, 2008
The next Annual Meeting of the Canadian Law and Economics Association will be held on Sept. 26-27, 2008. As usual, the meeting will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. More details and Call for Papers here.

Earl Lipson, et al. v. Her Majesty the Queen, et al.

Posted on April 22, 2008
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal tomorrow in a case called Lipson v. Canada. The appeal may prove to be a significant test of the efficacy of the so-called "general anti-avoidance rule" (the "GAAR") in combatting what is perceived to be abusive tax avoidance...

Upcoming Conference: Developing Aboriginal Economies

Posted on April 22, 2008
On May 1, 2008, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, in partnership with the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin, will be hosting a summit entitled ?Developing Aboriginal Economies.? The summit is a one-day symposium featuring two roundtables with a diverse group of panelists...

Suicide Bombings: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code

Posted on April 14, 2008
Senator Jerahmiel Grafstein (Lib.) has recently introduced into Parliament a proposed amendment to the anti-terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code, Bill S-210, which is now before the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee. The Bill is a short and straightforward one, which provides: Section 83...

Securities law needs more enforcement, not more laws

Posted on March 24, 2008
Originally posted on Lawyers Weekly: http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=640 Many commentators believe that securities law violations are under-enforced and under-prosecuted in Canada. But quite apart from securities regulatory enforcement, what is the role of the criminal law in the enforcement of financial crimes? Criminal prosecutions are necessary not simply as a supplement to the quasi-criminal jurisdiction of securities regulators, but as a first...

Dunsmuir: Can the Standard of Review be Solved?

Posted on March 17, 2008
On Friday, March 7, 2008, the Supreme Court released Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick (2008 SCC 9), a stark reversal of the last decade of administrative law jurisprudence on the issue of the standard of review. This decision seeks to quiet the steady drumbeat of criticism of the Court's Standard of Review jurisprudence while remaining true to the culture of deference...

Collectivizing Rights; Privatizing Taxation: The Unarticulated Function of Copyright Collectives

Posted on March 14, 2008
The recent proposal from the Songwriters Association of Canada to fully legalize peer-to-peer file sharing of music by adding a $5 monthly charge to the cost of Internet access (and similar proposals floating south of the border) has brought renewed attention in the role of levies and tariffs collected by copyright collectives in Canada...

Migrating Same Sex Marriages

Posted on March 12, 2008
I have just posted a new article on SSRN entitled "Betwixt and Between Recognition: Migrating Same Sex Marriages and the Turn to the Private". The paper looks at some parallels between conflict of laws cases and New York Times wedding annoucements in recognizing same sex marriage...

Bill C-10 - When funding becomes Censorship

Posted on March 06, 2008
There is a new censorship kafuffle in town. It?s Bill C-10, which will restrict tax credits to film and television productions deemed offensive and "contrary to public policy" by the Ministry of Heritage. The arts community is rightly up in arms, condemning the Bill as government censorship...

New Articles Available Online: On Competition Law and Intellectual Property, and on Patents and Phramaceuticals Regulation

Posted on March 04, 2008
Two articles of mine have been recently published and are available online. The first article, published in 49 Arizona Law Review is Making Sense of Nonsense: Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and Market Power. Here's the abstract: While the economic rationale for intellectual property ("IP") rights rests on the concepts of "monopoly" or "market power," the U...

Collegiality and Ideological Commitment

Posted on February 19, 2008
I've just posted a new paper on SSRN entitled, "Should They All Just Get Along? Judicial Ideology, Collegiality, and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada". My coauthor, Andrew Green, and I argue that the singular focus on the policy preferences of Supreme Court justices is apt to miss an important dimension of Court dynamics--the degree to which the justices engage in cooperative decision-making...

Veils, Isotopes and the Meaning of ?Independence?

Posted on January 13, 2008
There have been a considerable number of allegations of late that the Federal Government has been improperly interfering with independent Federal Agencies, Board and Commissions (or, for short, Federal ABCs). From a dispute about veiled women voting to a dispute about shutting down a nuclear facility, both the diversity and the importance of independent administrative ABCs has been on display...

A Malignant Vestige Of 'Tradition'

Posted on December 18, 2007
This commentary was first published in the National Post on December 14, 2007. The tragic death of Aqsa Parvez has been on my mind incessantly since I heard the news that the Mississauga, Ont., teenager had been killed -- allegedly by her traditionally minded Muslim father...

What else do Canada and Israel have in common (copyright related)?

Posted on December 17, 2007
In my latest post I noted that Canada and Israel share a common copyright heritage. Here's a trivia question: What else, copyright related, do Canada and Israel have in common? Answer below... Answer: The melodies of both countries' national anthems (choose whichever term you like) are inspired borrow build on plagiarize steal pirate previous popular musical works of their time...

Getting on like a house on fire ? Bali style

Posted on December 13, 2007
There is something surreal about the current climate talks in Bali. Think about it this way? Life is good in the penthouse suites. The open and airy lofts boast the latest in sleek Italian furniture, the ultimate in German kitchen design, and screening rooms with state of the art plasma screens and surround sound systems...

What Can Canada Learn from Israel about Copyright Reform?

Posted on December 08, 2007
A bill entitled Bill entitled "An Act to amend the Copyright Act" is likely to be handed down next week. While the bill itself is probably drafted already, its content will be deliberated in Parliament. Therefore, Canadian policymakers may wish to consider looking at the new copyright act which the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, passed last month (downloadable here, in Hebrew)...

The Bali Challenge: How to get a global climate deal, and fast?

Posted on November 30, 2007
According to UN secretary-general, Ban Ki- Moon, the most recent findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the impacts of climate change will be ?so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action will do.? The challenge at the pending UN meetings in Bali will be to set the tracks for just that: a regime that includes all major greenhouse gas (ghg) emitters and imposes meaningful emission reduction targets on them...

Why judicial independence matters

Posted on November 26, 2007
co-authored by Adam Dodek and Lorne Sossin This commentary was first published on the Globe and Mail website on November 23, 2007. Why should Canadians care about judicial independence? For one, history shows that a strong independent judiciary can be a bulwark against tyranny...

Why has Canada changed its tune on citizens facing the death penalty?

Posted on November 24, 2007
This commentary was first published in The Lawyers Weekly on November 16, 2007, page 17 Ronald Smith of Red Deer, Alberta is slated to die the same way that Stanley Faulder of Jasper, Alberta did in 1999: by lethal injection. It can be a cruel death, leaving people gasping for air and writhing in pain while jailhouse ?doctors? try to hit a vein with the poisoned needle...

Is Gender Really More Important than Appointing Prime Minister?

Posted on November 21, 2007
Professors Jame Stribopoulos and Moin Yahya recently published an article in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal entitled, Does a Judge's Party of Appointment or Gender Matter to Case Outcomes? An Empirical Study of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. The abstract explains:This study reveals that at least in certain categories of cases, both party of appointment and gender are statistically significant in explaining case outcomes...

Canada's New Terrorism Bills: Slow Down and Debate

Posted on October 29, 2007
Canadian Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day tabled new legislation in the House of Commons last Monday to allow British-style special advocates to play a role in security certificate cases that are used to detain and deport non-citizens suspected of involvement in terrorism...