BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 6-3 vote, strikes down Trump’s tariffs as not authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Roberts writes the court’s opinion. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

This would normally be scheduled for next week, but I made a short explainer about Halifax's current budget problems and am dropping it early because the events are currently happening. youtube.com/shorts/3sGdD...

Congratulations to Schulich Law Associate Professor Naiomi Metallic (BA ’02, LLB ’05), Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, who was named the 2026 Indspire Award Laureate for Law & Justice when the award recipients were announced on February 12. More: https://bit.ly/3O7kd91

I'm pretty sure it's still Norm Macdonald.

We are hiring at UNB Law! Contact me if you’d like more information. www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...

No better place to do a PhD!

"International Hoops Terms With Cleanthony Early" has to be the wildest sports category in Jeopardy! history.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Our former students doing good work on this case.

#rjweek2025 the Restorative Lab supported the organizing committee for the 2025 National Restorative Justice Symposium in Ottawa. The keynote panel ft. Jennifer Llewellyn, Chair in Restorative Justice at @schulichlaw.bsky.social who shared her vision of the future of restorative justice in Canada.

Tonight!

Tomorrow at @schulichlaw.bsky.social -- come for the talk, stay for snacks and beverages!

Tomorrow at @schulichlaw.bsky.social -- come for the talk, stay for snacks and beverages!

"Before we ended our call, Goertzel told me about an event he’d just been to in San Francisco on AI consciousness and parapsychology:'“ESP, precognition, and whatnot.'" www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

Please join us this Wednesday for a free film screening of The Secret Path at 4 p.m. in the Ko'jua Okuom in the Downie Wenjack Legacy Space in the Killam learning commons. All are welcome! @dalhousie.bsky.social @downiewenjack.bsky.social

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

@schulichlaw.bsky.social is inviting applications for an Infectious Disease Innovation Governance (IDIG) Research Fellow. The posting closes on November 3, 2025: dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19632

This is big. ‘Daniel Sampson was innocent’: leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated

"In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved." As a Cdn tax historian, I find this popular idea irritating. Equality of sacrifice? Sure! Abundant public revenue? Yay! But how? A 🧵 w/sources #cdnhist

Racial Capitalism and International Tax Law: The Story of Global Jim Crow (http://bit.ly/3JG8CLP) digs deep into the technical complexities of the global tax system (bet you didn't even know there was one!).

Some thoughts on the Air Canada flight attendants strike #AirCanada 1. Air Canada and the government expected the Minister's order to get the flight attendants back to work because unions in Canada tend to follow the law in bargaining. But

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

For groups with lawyers, one wonders if they sub in briefs for taxes.

2/3 The ultimate cause is climate change. And pointing to the proximate cause misses the real reason for the fire. There have always been people doing dumb stuff, carelessness, inattention, even arson! But all of that only results in the terrible wildfires we see now because of climate change.

Emancipation Day, officially recognized in Nova Scotia since 2021, lands on August 1 as a call to confront Canada’s history of slavery and the ongoing realities of anti-Black racism.

Behold, all the correspondence submitted to the Halifax Clerks office for the mayor’s Jun 10 motion to pause cycling work.

I've had this saved on my phone forever but I can't find the original artist and I'd really like to buy a print. Internet can you help?

cc: Halifax

The decimal points are less important than the government’s rhetoric when it comes to a wealth tax, argues @tom-clark.bsky.social. “Wealth never lies down and waits to be taxed.” www.prospectmagazine...

@schulichlaw.bsky.social PhD student Loveth Ovedje’s (LLM '24) latest OpenThink blog post is now live! Read it here 💻 The Paris Climate Agreement 10 Years After: Climate Finance - Who Pays The Bill?" blogs.dal.ca/openthink/th... #weldonproud @dalgradstudies.bsky.social

If you think AI = LLMs, you'd be 100% correct to think AI is a sham: good at working within its training database, trash at almost anything else. And that efforts to foist this shit on people too quickly are deeply problematic But AI is a lot more than LLMs. Linguistic confusion is a prob.

this is amazing. And disturbing. Both at the same time.

Congratulations to Dianna Burns, 2024/25 recipient of the Governor General’s Gold Medal Award in Humanities and Social Sciences. The award is presented by the Faculty of Graduate Studies to recognize an outstanding master’s graduate based on their dedication to academic excellence. #weldonproud 👏👏👏

Great place to work for a law librarian! cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/...

"as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can 'result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.'" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

For anyone thinking about doing a PhD in Law, expressions of interest for Pitch-a-PhD at The University of Sydney Law School are now open for international applicants. Please share widely. Submission link: lnkd.in/gcibSc9g Scholarships info here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

I am a computer scientist, and CS needs more political teaching, not less. Where did this data come from? Why is it like this? Who decided? How will this tool be used? What social & political assumptions are embedded in a design? There’s a reason I teach this… www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...

If you, like me, got turned on to Spier and Mackay menswear by @dieworkwear.bsky.social, tariffs just got real!!!

Please note: Dalhousie Legal Aid Service has moved to 500-5991 Spring Garden Road, on the 5th floor of the Halifax Professional Centre at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Robie Street. Social Justice Drop-In Clinics will resume on May 1. Questions? Email [email protected] or call 902-423-8105.

Informative post by @arlenejk.bsky.social demolishing Poilievre's tirade against the non-existent no-pipelines bill ablawg.ca/2025/04/21/t...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

This story for the New Yorker is the culmination of many years of reporting on and thinking about one thing: What's the deal with pitching? It was nice to reconnect with people I know from the baseball world, and I have now seen the inside of a person's elbow. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

@schulichlaw.bsky.social is hiring for two fantastic academic fellowships for next year, aimed at those with a clear research plan and an interest in law school teaching. The first is the Prudy Crawford Fellowship, designed to support scholarship in business law broadly understood.

For law students in Canada and abroad: Peer Zumbansen and others @ McGill Law have put together this fantastic, one-week, for-credit summer school on business, law and sustainability. Applications due March 10. Share widely!

‘If you have the ability to do something you have a responsibility to do it’: Remembering Harry Critchley www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Please join the Elizabeth Fry Society on Thursday, March 6th, from 6 to 8:30 pm @schulichlaw.bsky.social for a candle light vigil to mourn those lost to intimate partner violence and to reflect on strategy for prevention, and demand action.

Great opportunity!