These are the blogs of Slaw's contributors.

INTRODUCTION In the midst of writing this post yesterday, January 6th, I thought back to that day in 2021 when Donald Trump attempted a coup in the United States to seize the presidency despite having ...

A common message we hear today is that AI will soon bring about sweeping changes to the practice of law, making us so much more efficient that we’ll have plenty of time for other things. I’ve kept my ...

It has been a year of paradoxes and extremes. From economics to politics, global phenomena have spread onto our shores. Populism, strongman tactics, fear of the other, class division, and the marching ...

In “The Lawyer as Friend,” a famous 1976 law review article, Charles Fried proposed that a lawyer should act as a “special-purpose friend” to each of his or her clients. Within the bounds of the ...

The Federal Court of Appeal took the occasion of an appeal of the order of the Patented Medicines Prices Review Board (the “Board”) that required a patentee to share reports on medicines that were no ...

Recently, NSRLP participated in the 2024 National Pro Bono Conference, held in Montreal. The two-day event brought lawyers, academics, community workers and judges together to discuss issues of access ...

Every week we present the summary of a decision handed down by a Québec court provided to us by SOQUIJ and considered to be of interest to our readers throughout Canada. SOQUIJ is attached to the ...

For many legal practitioners, the thought of a visual contract is terrifying. Afterall, without all the flowery legalese, how will a court know how to interpret the contract? Except that the ...

Since the publication of the ADR Institute of Canada’s Med-Arb Rules in 2020, Med-Arb has become much more widely accepted as an integrated dispute resolution process in Ontario. Despite this many ...

If you glance at the news, it feels as if the world is on fire—both literally and figuratively. Climate change wreaks havoc across continents, pandemics challenge our healthcare systems, wars and ...