We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference, 1-4 July 2026, Cape Town. The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy". Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382... Details⬇️

Allard Law alumni Nermin Karim, Mara Selanders and Joey Doyle discussed their experiences completing our Specialization in Law and Social Justice and how it helped shape their careers. allard.ubc.ca/about-us/new...

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We're excited to announce publication of a new special issue of the Constitutional Forum!! The new issue presents new scholarship on the Charter's application to private legal relations (its "horizontal effect"). You can view the full issue for free here: www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2025/04/foru...

President Trump has declared 8 national emergencies since the beginning of his second term. And we are only 100 days in — making this a record invocation of emergency power by any modern U.S. president.

Op-ed: Professor Scott Franks argues a recent petition to stop land acknowledgments lacks an understanding of Canada’s constitutional framework and has a deep mischaracterization of land acknowledgments as a “political position”. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I stand with Ukraine.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

An important piece from Trevor Morrison and @rickpildes.bsky.social today 👇

BC Law Students! @BCLawInstitute &CBA-BC's new Mathew Good Memorial Prize. Submit your essay exploring #A2J & law reform. Winner gets $1,000 prize (courtesy @LawFoundationBC) & opportunity 2B published on BCLI website & in CBABC BarTalk. Details: bcli.org/matgoodprize

BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The House of Commons Library is a national treasure, and this looks like a really valuable primer, by David Torrance, on how laws are made, where powers are exercised, and what we need to know if we want to understand how (and by whom) we're governed. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

@lpcprof.bsky.social I'd like to be added to the law and humanities list

We have three faculty positions @AllardLaw with deadlines approaching. Please circulate! And, if one of the positions fits you, please consider applying! Info here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/new...

Tenure-track or tenured Asst, Assoc, or Full Prof appointment @AllardLaw. An open position, but we are particularly interested in disability, health, domestic human rights, natural resources, and/or law & technology areas. Deadline: Nov 18, 2024. Ad here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our...

REMINDER: @AllardLaw is hiring a full-time tenured or tenure-track appointment for an Indigenous scholar at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Deadline extended to November 4, 2024. Please circulate and/or consider applying! Posting here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our...

REMINDER: As part of @UBC’s Black Cohort Hiring Initiative, @AllardLaw is hiring at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The deadline to apply for this position is October 31, 2024. Please circulate and/or consider applying! Posting here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our...

Prof. Jared Wesley - a cautious, thoughtful observer of political affairs - writes an important post everyone should read: “The UCP is a threat to democracy” drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/the-ucp-is... (also, not gonna say I called it, but I called it: emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/whats-at-s...)

I sure did. And here’s what I said.

B.C. formally recognizes Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii: The unprecedented agreement – which has been decades in the making – was reached outside of the courts or the B.C. treaty process

A good story: Edward Roncarelli had a wonderful life which is in itself a tribute to his equally wonderful father Frank

Wonderful opportunity alert! Write in Residence @GreenCollegeUBC . Details here greencollege.ubc.ca/writer-resid...

With its extra funding, the IRS has... -Collected $160 million from rich tax cheats (so far) -Audited Microsoft and charged it $29 billion in back taxes -Made it easier to file taxes through free-filing programs in 13 states Remember this as the GOP tries to gut the agency.

With FIVE days left in 2023, we want to share FIVE reasons to contribute to the Internet Archive. 5️⃣: Our Collections-With millions of books, movies, software, audio & images, collections are at the core of the work we do, all as a result of your desire for knowledge: archive.org/donate/?orig...

Once again, minority language rights are the most interesting Charter rights of all: Commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest c. Ministre de l’Éducation / decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-.... #scc

Remembering a very fine @icon-s.bsky.social conference in Wellington with superb local hosts.. Check out this NYTimes piece on returning avian life and the wildlife preserve that I was fortunate to visit courtesy of one fantastic host @dreddieclark.bsky.social : www.nytimes.com/2023/12/04/w...

And, if you don't have access to Law360 Canada, see the pith and substance here: twitter.com/AllardLaw/st...

Read my views in the Law360Canada piece on Democracy Watch v BC (Lt Gov), 2023 BCCA 404--"BC fixed election date law ‘establishes a presumptive, but not absolute’ date, Appeal Court says"--(re)confirming statutory fixed election dates don't limit LG/premier's powers re dissolut'n/prorog'n of Leg.

I am dipping my twittery toes in the bluesky waters to test it out. I hope it is better than that *other* place.