🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...
We are delighted to share the news that the second edition of The Canadian Constitutional Law Open Access Casebook (co-edited by Richard Moon, Howard Kislowicz, and Asha Kaushal) is now available on CanLII! #constitutionallaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/1159f
Police interference w/ harm reduction services is a growing crisis. Surveilling services, arresting clients & other abuses cause service avoidance, violate peoples right to healthcare & highlights urgent need for binding non-interference policies. @filtermag.bsky.social @hivlegalnetwork.bsky.social
The Federal Court clearly sees the risk of persecution in the Trump era. When will @mark-carney.bsky.social’s government do the right thing & scrap our #STCA with the US?
“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”
1/ We're hiring two (2) Staff Lawyers! The Staff Lawyer (Public Legal Education) will primarily work to enhance public understanding of the litigation efforts of Egale Canada as well as other key legal issues for 2SLGBTQI communities in Canada.
I'm one of the 412 lawyers, academics, human rights advocates and other experts who have signed an open letter to PM Carney demanding that Canada do everything in its power to stop the genocide in Gaza and support efforts to bring those responsible to account www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...
Congrats to shortlisted authors & presses!
Margaret Boittin @cambridgeup.bsky.social
Elaine Craig @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
A Iavarone-Turcotte @pulaval.bsky.social
@james-kelly.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
@jcyliew.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social
MJ Mossman @wlupress.bsky.social
These Ford government proposals to give itself even more control over how it appoints lower-court judges are being debated in the shadow of Premier's recent comments that judicial independence is a "joke." #ONpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
The Ford government continues its efforts to undermine the integrity of the process for appointing judges to the ONCJ. The rule of law requires judicial independence and is best served by a merit-based appointment process insulated from political interference. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I'm pleased to announce that the Canadian Law and Society Association's prize committee has decided on its shortlist of books for the W. Wesley Pue Book Prize. The winner will be announced at the conference to be held at the U of Saskatchewan College of Law, 11-13 June 2025. @bbryder.bsky.social
Ontario's Premier – calling judicial independence “a joke” – says he supports U.S.-style elected judges and that many on the bench are “bleeding hearts” afflicted by “ideology,” who allow too many accused criminals out on bail: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
I hope the PM will consider forming a national unity Cabinet with members from outside the Liberal party. Seems especially important to improve representation from AB & SK. Perhaps invite Heather McPherson (NDP Edmonton Strathcona) and several Senators from AB & SK to join Cabinet?
In just 100 days, the Trump administration has inflicted enormous damage to human rights in the United States and around the world.
To mark the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, Human Rights Watch has cataloged 100 of the administration’s human rights harms 🧵⤵️
NEW: The number of writers jailed around the world has increased for the sixth year in a row. Our latest #FreedomToWrite Index recorded at least 375 writers jailed for their work in 40 countries during 2024. Read more: pen.org/press-releas...
Trump’s expulsions are jaw-droppingly cruel. But they’re part of an American tradition | Steven Hahn
“The Govt has not — & cannot — identify any rational connection between antisemitism & the medical, scientific, technological, & other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives, foster American success, preserve security, & maintain our position as a global leader in innovation.”
Here I argue the provocative claim that there is some misleading content in the Conservative crime platform.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
"Our economy works best when trade is subject to the rule of law, not the whims of one man. Courts can bolster that vital principle by striking down Trump’s egregious tariff power grab."
@IlyaSomin.bsky.social discusses the lawsuits challenging President Trump's IEEPA tariffs.
The Human Rights Legal Support Centre is seeking candidates for its full time Executive Director position. They are taking applications until May 9th, 2025 at 5pm.
More details available on the Centre's website here:
hrlsc.on.ca/about-us/car...
Justice Callaghan was understandably annoyed. "I think I'm entitled to a set of facts that's accurate," he said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lawyers for the Ontario government stated in court that the objective of the Community Care and Recovery Act was not to shut down supervised consumption sites, but simply to relocate them. Did counsel mislead the court by not sharing what it knew about the government's true policy objectives?
The Trump administration’s roundup of students who protested Israel’s bombardment of Gaza marks an astonishing, radical break with what one might justifiably think of as the central American idea. I wrote about it for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Since our administration would not fight the Trump administration in court, the faculty had to assume the responsibility of doing so to protect academic freedom.
www.reuters.com/world/us/col...
