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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Friday, October 17, 2025

Whitman: Failing rule of law in America means, if not civil war, ever more dismal standards of living, dying

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Whitman speaks in Montreal. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Professor James Q. Whitman , Yale Law, just concluded an extraordinary lecture o...
Monday, September 1, 2025

Transparency research conference issues CFP for '26

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The Ninth Global Conference on Transparency Research has issued its call for papers . The conference is set for June 24-26, 2026, at Carlet...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Roberts explains 'real crisis' of American government

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Flyer by RJ Peltz-Steele (with AI art) CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At UMass Law last week, Alasdair S. Roberts , UMass Amherst professor of public polic...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Big Ag plays Goliath in film about GMO-seed litigation

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A worthwhile movie you might have missed during the pandemic is Percy vs. Goliath (2020), starring Christopher Walken and Zach Braff, invol...
Saturday, April 8, 2023

Rap Snacks reinvents the potato chip for Americans

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Mapco Rap Snacks rack. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Peckish in a Mapco convenience store in Memphis last weekend, I was confronted unexpe...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

'Marketplace' features book, film, Wisconsin law class on wild risks at shuttered N.J. water park

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Action Park fun in 1994 (Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Marketplace today features a torts course about accident risk an...
Thursday, July 28, 2022

While Pope apologizes in Canada, U.S. reckons with legacy of federal Indian boarding schools

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Children at Rehoboth Mission School, New Mexico (from DOI report p. 39, credited: Hartog, C. (1910). Rehoboth School [Photograph]. Indian mi...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Copyright? I gotchyer Bernie mittens right here, Getty

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CC mine, mine, mine Is any blog complete without a Bernie mittens meme?   The source photo for the now world-famous Bernie mittens meme is ...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

Birth announcement: Ontario court is reluctant parent of new tort of 'internet harassment'

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UNESCO image CC BY-SA 4.0 The tort world is abuzz with a court decision in Ontario that has birthed a new common law cause of action for ...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Canadian privacy advocate deploys anti-SLAPP law in suit by electronic exam proctoring company

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John Oliver's Big Coal SLAPP nemesis, Bob Murray, retires Pixabay by Aksa2011 An IT specialist at a Canadian university is defending a...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Horrors at Oak Ridge Psychiatric amounted to assault, battery, but lacked intent for IIED, Ontario court rules

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From 1963 to 1988, patients involuntarily committed to the maximum-security Oak Ridge Mental Health Centre at Penetanguishene, Ontario, were...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Comparative law papers span globe, round out 2019

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Comparative Law is so rewarding to teach that I'm probably overcompensated to do it.*  The inherently diverse nature of the course cont...