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- The Second Voyage: Explore the World’s First Legal Design Journal
[Image by Amy Lloyd]In just a few weeks, the Legal Design Journal (the LD Journal)[1] will launch its second edition. Published online and free via open source, the journal is gaining in popularity and success since its maiden voyage in June of 2025. Unlike some open-access academic journals, the LD … Read more »
- This Way for the Legal Wading Pool
If you’ve been adrift on the internet desperately trying not to drown in the flood of legal information, great news! You’ve found a raft! No, that’s not really funny. When you’re representing yourself, trying to get to the information you want does often feel like drowning. There’s so much info, mos … Read more »
- The Conundrum of the Religious Defence to Hate Expression
INTRODUCTION The relationship between “hate expression” and religion and religious belief in Canada has always been a tangled one: the source of hatred can be grounded in religious belief and hatred can be directed against individuals or a group on the basis of their religion. The current hate provi … Read more »
- What Doesn’t Bore You Makes You a Scholar: On Picking a PhD Thesis Topic
When starting a PhD thesis or other long piece of writing (any substantial intellectual project really), choosing the right topic is a significant part of whether the end result will be successful. Graduate students choose their topics in many ways. Some see postings for PhD positions within researc … Read more »
- A Court Divided: What an Ontario Court Motion Reveals About Race in the Courtroom
In a bizarre procedural twist, the Ontario Divisional Court issued two contradictory decisions on consecutive days in the same case. Two written motions for leave to intervene in Dosu v. Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario was sent to two different judges – Justice Sharon Shore and Justice Shaun Nakats … Read more »