I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

A public law job at Sheffield: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPW952/l...

Good read on AI mediated scholarship and the provenance problem share.google/RqTgSFi8M2zA...

For some further thoughts on Kloubakov and what has now been decided relevant to assessing the constitutionality of criminal prostitution laws in Canada, I have an article forthcoming in the Supreme Court Law Review dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Full text of C-16 - Protecting Victims Act now available www.parl.ca/DocumentView...

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Watch for the Protecting Victims Act today www.youtube.com/live/7_dAbzr...

Today we remember the best known example of sex-motivated killing in Canada. On Dec. 6, 1989, a lone white male armed with a gun entered École Polytechnique at Université of Montréal and killed 14 women because they were women, towards whom he expressed hatred. theconversation.com/sex-motivate...

The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law is inviting applications for an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor who will also serve as Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC). › www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

It’s not certain that the invocation of the notwithstanding clause shields the laws from constitutional challenge. It is important for citizens to know IF/HOW/WHY rights have been violated. It is likely that invocation shields rights violation from remedy by courts. The remedy is at the ballot box.

Just arrived. Cannot wait

PSA: sex work law in Canada Kloubakov clarified the law but researchers continue to misstate the law Sex work (involving sexual touching) is illegal. Purchasing is an offence. Providers are a party to that offence (however they will not be prosecuted) 1/2

One of the most frustrating things about commentary on Canada's criminal prostitution laws & constitutional challenges is the consistent claim that sex work is legal. It is not legal 1/ Sex work on trial: What the recently dismissed Constitutional challenge means theconversation.com/sex-work-on-...

Call for proposals is live! Join us!! Women, Disability, and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind Mar 13-14, 2026 #flsq #women #disability #intersectionality #feministlegalstudies #disabilitystudies femlaw.queensu.ca/sites/flswww...

In case you missed it ➡️ One exceptional post-grad law student will be awarded the $25K CBA Viscount Bennett Fellowship. Don't let this opportunity pass you by! Deadline: November 18. https://bit.ly/46y2RG6

Opportunity! See Gender & Justice website for details-please circulate in your networks @drlandislife.bsky.social @afipcollective.bsky.social @marissaesque.bsky.social @veronicagago.bsky.social @requenaaguilar.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @fosfeminista.bsky.social @thinkcrea.bsky.social

📣General registration for4th joint annual conference 'A feminist Politics of Radical Hope in a Time of Oppression' is now open. Details: www.lexnetwork.org/radical-hope... LEX now reviewing membership applications Details: lexnetwork.org @sharronfitz.bsky.social @genderandjustice.bsky.social

Join us Oct 31-Nov 1 for the Vulnerability, Inequality and Justice Workshop, in person or virtually. This workshop brings together scholars from across Canada to explore the concept of vulnerability in law and its role in the equality & justice project. Register now: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/eve...

I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.

Help us spread the word! The $25,000 CBA Viscount Bennett Fellowship for post-grad law students is seeking applications. Deadline to apply is November 18: bit.ly/46y2RG6

Save the date! Feminist Legal Studies Queen's Annual Conference: March 13-14, 2026 @queensulaw.bsky.social Women, Disability, and Intersectionality: Designing for Equality and Leaving No One Behind Watch this space for further information including call for papers! femlaw.queensu.ca/conferences/...

From a review of Jurist in Context William Twining: the man who radicalised the middle ground by David Sugarman

I was sad to learn of William Twining’s death. He was my partner’s LLM supervisor; we spent time together most recently in 2019 before the world locked down. I’m sure I have a better photo somewhere, but this one captures that one simple day at his home. My deepest condolences to Penelope and family

An excellent read! To serve future needs beyond those AI can meet, lawyers will require a new foundation that puts their humanity at the centre of who they are and what they do, expressed through (1) their legal intuition, (2) their professional integrity, and (3) their personal trustworthiness

My article for the Law Institute Journal (LIJ) October 2025 special issue on lawyers’ wellbeing is now available on my Substack. Please have a read and if you can help me grow my audience, I’d be very grateful for a share if you like the article 🙏🏼 open.substack.com/pub/lucindas...

It begins, it has an end, this is what you will come back to, this is your hand. -You Begin @margaretatwood.bsky.social readalittlepoetry.com/2011/03/22/y...

And yet as a Toronto sports fan, the risk of loss was real

Sex-motivated violence should be treated like a hate crime www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...

For hate crime legislation to be more than symbolic, crimes motivated by hatred must be reported, recorded, prosecuted and sentenced as hate crimes for all identifiable groups — not just some of them. With Myrna Dawson @theconversation.com theconversation.com/sex-motivate...

The road to reconciliation begins with truth Mishiikenh Kwe ~ Anishinaabe c. 2022

Good discussion of balancing autonomy and harm. Also important: “The science of decision making tells us that there are two fundamental things. What do you think of the evidence, and what are your values and preferences around applying that evidence.” www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/e...

I'm pleased to see that sex is included as an identifiable group for the purpose of proposed hate crime and intimidation offences. But see my co-authored article w Myrna Dawson addressing current failures to treat male violence as hate (link in comment) www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en...

Mr. Williams is alleged to have sexually assaulted more than 300 victims between the ages of 12 and 18 at a provincially run youth detention centre www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

“The science on the subject is pretty clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat."

Pamela Cross on why we should pay attention to a Kingston sexual assault trial involving 98 charges and 28 complainants pamelacross.ca/taking-back-...

Air Canada flight attendants overwhelmingly reject tentative agreement

🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨 @windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24 www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...

We are delighted to share the news that the second edition of The Canadian Constitutional Law Open Access Casebook (co-edited by Richard Moon, Howard Kislowicz, and Asha Kaushal) is now available on CanLII! #constitutionallaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/1159f

Welcoming our incoming class to Queen’s Law and Professor Jacob Weinrib introduces their keen minds to the language and narratives of law.

Bought my 4 year old grandson pajamas with dinosaurs on them (because he loves dinosaurs). He told me the name of each dinosaur but he was uncertain about one. So he went to get his dinosaurus (yes he has a book). The pride! #academicgrandma #mormor

Videos (and slides and transcripts) from the symposium on Legal Education and the Human Lawyer are now posted educatinghumanlawyers.com/recordings/ Check them out! #educatinghumanlawyers #legaled @osgoodenews.bsky.social @altlaw.bsky.social @theltjournal.bsky.social

New from the #CanLIIAuthorsProgram: "Litigation Abuse in Ontario Family Law Cases" by Nicholas Bala #familylaw #litigationabuse #legalcommentary zurl.co/9M0Ur

If you are heading to law school this month and a bit worried if you “belong.” You do. Here is a letter to a 1L on the First Day of Law School. Free to read. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"In response to America’s threats, Canada is in the middle of the greatest explosion of nationalism in the country’s history, far more substantial than the nationalism of the 1960s."

Political Science at Western University, Canada is searching for three tenure track assistant professors. There are two ads, one in International Politics (IR or comparative) and one in Comparative or Canadian. Ads are here: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Come work with us! Full-time International Human Rights Program Coordinator opportunity with @ihrp.bsky.social based in Toronto. The closing date is August 10th. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Excellent piece by Jennifer Llewellyn @restorativelab.bsky.social about how restorative justice offers a better way to address harm, engage communities, and bring about culture change in sexual violence cases.

Kloubakov is principally a statutory interpretation case that finally settles the question of whether new offence provisions enacted by PCEPA in response to Bedford prevent sex workers from taking safety enhancing measures found to have been prevented by offence provisions considered in Bedford 1/9