Some quick thoughts on Trowbridge

Some quick thoughts on Trowbridge

Short answer: No.

I am going to have all the fact patterns.

Last week, I announced that my course on Evidence Law will be ‘device-free’, in the sense that students will be barred from using electronic devices - such as laptops, smartphones, smart-glasses, etc.

Last week, I announced that my course on Evidence Law will be ‘device-free’, in the sense that students will be barred from using electronic devices - such as laptops, smartphones, smart-glasses, etc.

Why we're going device-free this term.

Why we're going device-free this term.

Law schools better start figuring it out.

Law schools better start figuring it out.

AI, Legal Education & the University of Chicago Law School's Report

Americans do not care for artificial intelligence. Recent polling shows that their attitudes mostly range from ambivalence to horror.

AI, Legal Education & the University of Chicago Law School's Report

Top AI systems show bias towards rewarding overly complex prose styles and only match human examiners for grade bands around half the time, research finds.

How will you justify our existence?

The basic arguments in a nutshell

Uncertainty about the position of the Prime Minister has raised the question whether Andy Burnham, currently the Mayor of Greater Manchester, might return to the House of Commons in order to challe…

On the National Requirement and Canadian legal education

A reply to Emmett Macfarlane

A reply to Emmett Macfarlane

Alford v Canada and a recent exchange

Alford v Canada and a recent exchange

In Monday’s post on Robertson, I ended by expressing the concern that all the Court of Appeal’s talk about bright-line rules and regulated fields seems to obscure or distort something important about ...

In Monday’s post on Robertson, I ended by expressing the concern that all the Court of Appeal’s talk about bright-line rules and regulated fields seems to obscure or distort something important about ...

A short note on Robertson

Michael Law-Smith (University of Ottawa - Faculty of Law; University of Toronto - Department of Philosophy) has posted Criminal Trials and Truth on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The traditional account of the criminal trial holds that its fundamental purpose is to search for the truth—that is, the truth of whether the accused factually committed the alleged crime. However, purely truth-seeking accounts, as well as more nuanced side-constraint and pluralist accounts, fail to adequately explain the relationship between the epistemic principles and those of political morality shaping the criminal trial.

A short note on Robertson

By standard accounts, there are fifty-four constitutions across the federal, state, and territorial governments of the United States. But in fact, there are 230 other governmental constitutions that currently govern peoples and territories within the United States. These constitutions not only flow from a sovereignty that existed prior to the United States but also came out of a legal movement that asserted its independence from both the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. This Article tells the story of these constitutions — the constitutions of Native nations.

A breakdown of the proposed offence in Bill C-16

A breakdown of the proposed offence in Bill C-16

A breakdown of the proposed offence in Bill C-16

More on Primus & the Future of Legal Education

More on Primus & the Future of Legal Education

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Thoughts on Richard Primus' Recent Paper

Thoughts on Richard Primus' Recent Paper

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