Today, @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social challenge the idea that law review articles should conclude with a set of actionable prescriptions.
This convention, they argue, constrains ambition, sidelines critique, and conflates near-term feasibility with rigor.
Abbotsford mayor says region IDed array of new infrastructure needed to prevent repeat scenario of 2021 but funding requests to government were largely ignored.
“We don’t need empty promises from the federal government that they have our back."
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Pleased to share my new article in Canadian Public Administration (available open access)! I examine how the administration of interveners at the Supreme Court of Canada has evolved since 1878. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
To take another example, Fraser #2 is now before the courts. Although the SCC found the RCMP violated substantive equality by not providing pension buyback rights to job sharing members, mostly women, the RCMP refused to apply the ruling to part-time members. Guess what? Also mostly women. Sigh.
The feeling is mutual! Glad to see this in print and already citing in some projects in the works.
Supreme Court Canada dismissed 4 leaves to appeal and granted 1. #SCC will hear #Saskatchewan use of Charter Rights s33 notwithstanding clause in #education law. #constitution
New publication in Criminology and Public Policy examining police experiences with Canada's first #drugdecriminalization policy. We highlight #policyalienation, #legalambiguity, and disparate coping mechanisms that reveal the #lawinaction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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While the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act ensures immunity from charges for simple drug possession during an overdose, the Supreme Court of Canada says that protection must also extend to arrests. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
Happy to share new paper on "State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations"
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Charter Rights #sexwork and #criminallaw: Unanimous Supreme Court Canada held that, 'challenged [criminal] offences do not violate right to security of the person protected by section 7 of Charter.' #scc
Supreme Court Canada agreed to hear case about whether it's constitutional for police to make random traffic stop without reasonable suspicion the driver has committed an offence. #SCC @cdnpress.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
One thing you notice about anti-feminism is that its public discourses are all about erecting a fantasy of men’s victimization that is clung to all the more desperately and insistently the more it contradicts the actual facts. So the more women are hurt, the more we’re told that men are suffering.
In brighter news, yesterday I recieved news that I was awarded a SSHRC doctoral grant. Grateful to live and study in a country that thinks social science is important and deserving of funding!
My research is all about street-level bureaucracy and implementing policy change. Stay tuned! 🤓
Do you get offended by this? I get similar comments when people think I'm much younger than I am in a professional environment. I'm told I'm supposed to be flattered by it. But it feels like an insult when people don't see the life/professional experience you've acquired.
To the paramedics, police, firefighters, those working at the hospitals, and members of the public that jumped in to help on the scene.
I want to say thank you.
Thank you for stepping up to take care of each other last night, and all that you will do in the coming days.
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Appreciating the careful response from VPD's interim Chief Steve Rai to media questions: "We don't want to create a police state."
Our city is grieving. That grief can tempt us to demand a more coercive state. It's powerful to see police leadership recognizing that danger, and resisting it.
Charter Rights #Toronto. Injunction granted to prevent bike lane removal. 'Ontario govt can’t remove bike lanes on Bloor, University and Yonge streets until [court] renders decision on Charter challenge by #cycling advocates.' #bikes toronto.citynews.ca/2025/04/22/c...
Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a paper about what evidence-based policy making means
What does #evidence-based #policy (EBP) mean, ask Schneider et al. Does it mean “follow the science,” focus on “what works,” or “follow the rules”? They discuss the literature & practice on EBP & note two criteria “legitimizers of EBP ought to satisfy” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032...
#Bill53 'Compassionate Intervention Act' lays out criteria, guidelines and process for a family member or guardian, health-care professional or police officer to get someone into involuntary treatment. #mentalhealth #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Obviously there are workarounds to knowing what is happening with some of our biggest public bodies on an hour by hour.
But now that I’m 98% off it, it’s odd how our government bodies became so captured to a single website to provide basic information to British Columbians.
Oh nothing, just the national federation of academic unions recommending against any non-essential travel to the United States, with a warning to exercise "particular caution" to anyone who has expressed the current administration or its policies
Supreme Court Canada 2024 year in review features a message from chief justice Richard Wagner. Reduced quality. Video available here video.isilive.ca/scc/2025_YIR... #scc #cdnlaw #cdnpoli #justice
Lawyers for the Ontario government stated in court that the objective of the Community Care and Recovery Act was not to shut down supervised consumption sites, but simply to relocate them. Did counsel mislead the court by not sharing what it knew about the government's true policy objectives?
Fair! Though, I am in a Canadian social science department and I sometimes hear this sentiment echoed. I worry the views of legal scholarship in the US has coloured how social scientists think of law journals broadly 🙈.
Ok... but this feels like an American problem. My experience with Canadian law reviews has mirrored my experiences with social science journals (in a good way). Peer review is standard here. Law students are involved but not in the same way as the US... Curious what other Can legal scholars think.
4 pp of screenshots of table of contents: 1Introduction: Of Constitutions and Constitutional TheoryRichard Bellamy and Jeff King Part IValues 2Human DignityJeremy Waldron 3RightsRowan Cruft 4EqualityAnnabelle Lever 5LibertyPhilip Pettit 6Well-BeingSarah Conly 7Self-GovernmentThomas Christiano 8Justice: Procedural and SubstantiveRainer Forst 9RecognitionHelder De Schutter Part IIModalities 10ImpartialityMatthew H. Kramer 11Constitutional LegitimacyNomi Claire Lazar 12SovereigntyDavid Dyzenhaus 13Constituent PowerMartin Loughlin 14RepresentationNadia Urbinati 15DeliberationSimone Chambers 16OppositionGrégoire Webber 17The Separation of PowersJacob T. Levy 18The Rule of LawJeff King 19Constitutional ConventionsJon Elster 20SecularismCécile Laborde 21Constitutional ReviewChristoph Möllers 22Constitutional InterpretationTimothy Endicott 23ProportionalityGeorge Letsas 24Civil DisobedienceCandice Delmas 25Constitutional EntrenchmentN. W. Barber 26Emergency PowersKarin Loevy 27RegulationJulia Black 28Cost–Benefit AnalysisMatthew Adler 29RevolutionNimer Sultany continued in alt text of #2
4 pp of table of contents , divided into the alt text of first two screenshots Part IIIInstitutions AThe State 30The StateAnna-Bettina Kaiser 31The Material ConstitutionMarco Goldoni 32FederalismStephen Tierney 33ConsociationalismJoseph Lacey and Nenad Stojanović 34CorporatismSteven Klein 35Guarantor (or the So-called “Fourth Branch”) InstitutionsTarunabh Khaitan 36Central BanksJens van ’t Klooster BThe Executive 37Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Their HybridsSteffen Ganghof 38PrerogativeThomas Poole 39The Administrative StateBlake Emerson 40Executive RulemakingSusan Rose-Ackerman CThe Democratic System 41Constituent AssembliesJoel Colón-Ríos 42CitizenshipElizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh 43ElectionsDaniel Weinstock 44Political PartiesJonathan White and Lea Ypi 45LegislaturesRichard Ekins 46ReferendumsSilvia Suteu 47Citizens’ Juries/MinipublicsCristina Lafont DThe Legal System 48Constitutional Courts and Supreme CourtsChristine Landfried 49Judicial IndependenceDavid Kosař and Samuel Spáč 50Bills of RightsRichard Bellamy 51Administrative LawFarrah Ahmed 52Horizontal EffectOliver Gerstenberg EThe Global System 53Global and National ConstitutionalismCarmen E. Pavel 54Regional IntegrationTurkuler Isiksel 55International OrganisationsAnne Peters Part IVChallenges for Constitutional Democracy 56InequalityRoberto Gargarella 57PopulismPaul Blokker 58Climate ChangeJocelyn Stacey 59MigrationSarah Song 60Constitutional HardballMark Tushnet
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The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory is now available electronically.
@rbellamy.bsky.social @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social @alixabeth.bsky.social inter alia
A nation's sovereignty is not just about borders, resources, or political independence— it also depends on strong institutions that serve the common good. https://bit.ly/4c0h3eU 1/2
Protecting Canadian democracy is precisely what the Canada Elections Act is for and one of its great features is that it forbids undue influence from foreigners. Read more from this opinion piece in CBA National: https://bit.ly/4iokHBS
I’m on CBC’s Front Burner pod today with Jeet Heer, talking about the history and current moment of Canada nationalism — and what we might do with it.
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