Talking to York University students these days, the 2008-2009 strike seems like a distant memory. Four years ago, however, the strike was all that they were talking about. It was the longest faculty strike in Canadian university history. All in all, starting November 2008, over 50,000 students were locked out and over 3,000 teaching assistants […]
Augusta, Welcome to the 21st Century: Green Jackets, Coming to a Woman Near You Augusta National Golf course, home of the Masters, has finally welcomed women to it's traditional boy's club. Darla Moore, South Carolina financier and Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State will become the first women ever in the club's 80-year history to […]
How cell phones have changed in the last thirty years - though back then, they were “cellular telephones.” I remember the scene in John Hughes’ film, Sixteen Candles where the Geek, played by Anthony Michael Hall, is driving the Prom Queen home. He can’t drive and she can’t sit up straight. For those who have […]
Russia’s Ruling on Pussy Riot: A Verdict Against Freedom of (Artistic) Expression? On Friday, August 17, 2012, Torontonians gathered outside of the Russian consulate in protest against that nation’s treatment of three members of a feminist punk-rock collective known as Pussy Riot. The band members were on trial in faraway Moscow on charges of hooliganism, […]
Disney Caught in the Headscarf Debate Disney characters come in all different genders, ethnicities, cultures, etc. Some live underwater and make friends with sea creatures, while others are friendly sea creatures themselves. Some have bright blonde hair, while others prefer to cover their black hair. It seems unfathomable that anyone would take issue with Aladdin […]
What makes a law professor, someone perched atop the legal profession, publish a blog titled ‘Inside The Law School Scam’? That is the question many have asked Prof. Paul Campos from the University of Colorado Law School. His blog has grown in popularity in the past few months as more and more students turned on […]
On August 7, 2012, Marvin Wilson, a mentally disabled man, was executed in the state of Texas. This execution took place despite a 2002 Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") ruling that said otherwise. Wilson’s IQ was at 61, which is below the first percentile of functioning; he had the mental capacity of a […]
Statutory interpretation is undoubtedly one of the basic tenets of the judiciary in most, if not all, legal systems. Often, much thought and expression is spent on pinpointing the intent of lawmakers; this is to ensure that the courts can enforce law to reflect Parliament’s concerns, as well as to balance the interests of the […]
All throughout the first year of law school, while navigating through different subjects, one of the major challenges is to understand just how a particular area of law fits in the great big jigsaw puzzle that is the Law. Through the last couple of years, the workings of these cogs and mechanisms have slowly started […]
Conscription Conflict: Israel and Tal Law The Haredi Community, an ultra-orthodox sect of Judaism, is the fastest growing community in Israel, and up until Tuesday night, its members were exempt from Israel's mandatory military service. In February of this year, the Israeli Supreme Court (ISC) ruled that Tal law, the law providing for such an exemption […]