Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 29/04/2026If you're interested in a deep dive into key climate litigation cases across the world, please check out this open access edited collection from Elgar. I'm particularly happy to see my chapter on the Misdzi Yikh case before the Federal Court of Canada online now: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o... 020
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonJoshua Shaw @joshuashaw.bsky.social · 25/11/2025My latest article, “The Legal Somatics of Body Bequests Before the Anatomy Act 1832”, is published in Mortality, an interdisciplinary journal on death and dying. In the article, I analyze the medico-legal history of 18th- and 19th-century body bequests in England and Ireland. doi.org/10.1080/1357...doi.orgThe legal somatics of body bequests before the Anatomy Act 1832Without the authority of legislation in the United Kingdom, some bequeathed their bodies to physicians, surgeons and apothecaries to dissect and create anatomical specimens in the eighteenth and ea... 24114
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonJoshua Shaw @joshuashaw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Law, @usask.ca. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in: (1) law and technology, (2) business (especially corporate law), and (3) Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory. usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....usask.csod.comLaw: Tenure track positionFaculty Member, Law: Tenure Track The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan seeks to hire one tenure-track position. The Search Committee ... 097
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonCritical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025. 097
Reposted by Benjamin Ralston🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025🔥⚖️🌐final countdown to a historic moment for #ClimateJustice: in a few minutes, InterAmerican Court of Human Rights will deliver landmark authoritative judicial opinion on States' climate obligations #AOLetsGo #OpiniónConsultiva 🧵key elements of context & analysis in thread👇 24235
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonLegal Affairs Canada @lawscribes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Supreme Court Canada dismissed leave to appeal in youth Charter Rights challenge to Ontario greenhouse gas law. Per ONCA an new hearing will be held for 're-determination.' #climatechange #environment #onlaw 003
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 24/04/2025There's no surer sign of spring than this around here. 141
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 09/04/2025If you have a pile of grading to do, why not do it in the mountains, especially if you can leverage grandparents for childcare in the process? 040
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonNigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Good to see Safe Food Matters et al continuing to demand accountability from PMRA in relation to the licensing of glyphosate-based pesticides in Canada. And I expect this decision by Justice Zinn to become a leading authority on review of decisions w/out supporting reasons. #canpolidecisions.fct-cf.gc.ca Friends of the Earth Canada v. Canada (Attorney General) - Federal Court 173
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Justice Blackhawk of Canada's Federal Court has issued a very detailed & thoughtful decision on the relevance of UNDRIP to decision making by the federal Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in Kebaowek First Nation v Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, 2025 FC 319 decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi...decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca Kebaowek First Nation v. Canadian Nuclear Laboratories - Federal Court 123
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonCritical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 16/02/2025For anyone on this platform with an interest in the ways in which law and space are entangled with one another (i.e. critical legal geographies), please check out this starter pack: go.bsky.app/4cqybPr Consider it a living document. If you would like to be included or removed, just let us know. 1103
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonCritical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 21/01/2025The Critical Legal Geographies Network is now on Bluesky. 112
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Prairie winters don't get the love they deserve #yxe 050
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonThe Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/12/2024Yukon could get a new Indigenous-led protected area as big as Vancouver Island. The Ross River Dena Council, Yukon and Canada are studying protections for caribou habitat in an area where both the landscape and the Kaska people have been disturbed by colonization. thenarwhal.ca/ross-river-d...thenarwhal.caA new Indigenous protected area in Yukon | The NarwhalThe proposed protected area could cover eight per cent of Yukon, and be co-managed by the Ross River Dena Council and the territorial and federal governments 112333
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonMarkus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Canada strangely argues at the ICJ that the right to life is not informed by the environment and the 'content' of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is 'undefined'. Also argues that the principle of prevention does not exist in the field of climate change. 121
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024More winter photos from Saskatoon, because why not? #yxe 080
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonBreen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Saskatoon temps were around −28°C this week, just like 34 years ago. Why −28°C? Why 34 years ago? Neil Stonechild was arrested by two #Saskatoon police officers & left in a field northwest of the city on Nov 25, 1990. Neil was found by construction workers 34 years ago today, frozen to death. 1012463
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonMarkus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 29/11/2024First Full Text Draft of the Plastics Treaty - many options still open but this could be a milestone in the process. The institutional provisions are very much inspired by the #ParisAgreement wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...wedocs.unep.org 078
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Another prairie winter appreciation post. #yxe 080
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonNigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 28/11/2024A gentle reminder to this new community that if you want to grow connectivity and vitality in this space you need to re-post (and not just like) those posts that resonate with you and that you think deserve a broader audience. #bluesky won't do it for you. It's not like the other place. 24530
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The Supreme Court of Canada just released a fascinating new decision on the Honour of the Crown. Building on a recent case on legislative reconciliation in the child and family services context, it has outlined a complementary framework for contractual reconciliation: www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier...scc-csc.caSupreme Court of Canada - 40619The Supreme Court confirms that the province of Quebec breached the requirements of good faith and the principle of the honour of the Crown in carrying out agreements on police services in an Indigenous community. 162
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonTrevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social · 25/11/2024How do carbon taxes affect food prices? In our latest paper, @dr_jen_winter and I analyze both direct and indirect impacts across the entire food supply chain: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abs… It's the most detailed exploration of CTaxes and food yet! 🤓 #cdnecon #cdnpoli 34429213
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 25/11/2024It's a peacefully quiet day on the USask campus for the few of us who have to be here today. 040
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonMartin Z. Olszynski @molszyns.bsky.social · 22/11/2024“Climate change threatens to make almost everyone poorer. So, naturally, some governments and individuals are looking to the courts to make fossil fuel companies pony up. And they just got billions of dollars worth of encouragement.” #cdnpoli www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...nationalmagazine.caCan Big Oil be made to pay like Big Tobacco?Those who want fossil fuel companies to pony up encouraged by proposal requiring tobacco giants to provide provinces, territories and smokers billions in compensation 0154
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Our first real snow came late this season. But Mother Nature seems to be making up for lost time. 050
Reposted by Benjamin RalstonNtina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Excellent short piece by Jolene Lim on the recent Shell climate change 'It would be misguided for companies and their legal advisors to read the Court of Appeal’s decision as an endorsement of ‘business as usual’.' cil.nus.edu.sg/blogs/milieu...cil.nus.edu.sg 074
Reposted by Benjamin Ralstonannajanel.bsky.social @annajanel.bsky.social · 11/11/2024‼️ CfP: Canadian Law and Society annual meeting will be held at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law 11-13 June 2025! Proposals are due 15 January 2025. ‼️ Please share widely! 📢 076
Benjamin Ralston @benjamin-ralston.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Might as well get a first post intro out of the way while this Twitter exodus is still unfolding. I teach, research, & occasionally post about environmental law, administrative law & Aboriginal law. And when I'm not on campus, I'm hanging around these two & my partner, @shoshannapaul.bsky.social. 250