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- A conversation with Lillianne Cadieux-Shaw about Defamation
Lillianne Cadieux-Shaw: “Retaliatory Defamation Lawsuits, Equality Principles, and Access to Justice: Commentary on Hansman v Neufeld”, volume 55, Advocates’ Quarterly Osgoode Professors Richard Haigh and Dan Priel are joined by Toronto lawyer (and former student of ours) Lil Cadieux-Shaw ’17 in a d … Read more »
- "Brain Science for Lawyers, Judges, and Policymakers" by Owen Jones, Jeffrey Schall, Francis Shen, Morris Hoffman and Anthony Wagner
Osgoode Professors Richard Haigh and Dan Priel are joined by two of the authors of this very handy book, Professor Jeffrey Schall and former Judge Morris Hoffman. It’s always been the case that law is intimately connected with human behaviour. But now brain science is becoming more and more implicat … Read more »
- "Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives" by Michael Heller & James Salzman
Osgoode Professors Richard Haigh and Dan Priel are joined by Professor Michael Heller of Columbia Law School and Professor James Salzman of UCLA School of law and UCSB Bren School of the Environment. The book is a provocative book about how ownership — a legal concept — is much more complicated th … Read more »
- "Assisted Suicide in Canada" by Travis Dumsday
Osgoode Professors Richard Haigh and Dan Priel are joined by Professor Travis Dumsday of Concordia University of Edmonton in a wide-ranging discussion about his book, Assisted Suicide in Canada: Moral, Legal and Policy Considerations. The book takes on the very complicated legal, moral, philosophica … Read more »
- "Politics and Expertise" by Zeynep Pamuk
Dan and Richard are joined by University of Oxford Associate Professor Zeynep Pamuk to discuss her recent book, Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society. The book’s grand theme is captured in the two epigraphs found at the beginning: “It would not only be foolish but downri … Read more »