Law prof. Books: Implied Consent & Sexual Assault; Sovereignty, Restraint & Guidance; Tenth Justice.
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1. Get comfortable with statutes - and in particular the Criminal Code. You need to be able to sensibly parse statutory provisions even when no court has looked at them yet. And you will understand cases better when you independently examine the provisions they construe.
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We started hearsay yesterday, and I gave my class an illustration of a classic hearsay problem. This morning, out of curiosity, I ran a photo of my whiteboard drawing through AI. Amazing! It was good enough that I put it on my course page.
And here is my artistry at work again, caught by @DwightNewmanLaw the other day when I was teaching Jurisprudence.
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It is law faculty hiring season, and before you make an offer you'd better run the candidate's recent papers through Pangram. I AM NOT saying that a positive result should disqualify anyone, or even count against them. I think AI makes our work better and we should use it. I AM saying that the degree of everyone's AI copying/pasting over the last couple of years will soon be catalogued by critics of higher education and out in the open--just understand that and decide how comfortable you are with it.
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We started hearsay yesterday, and I gave my class an illustration of a classic hearsay problem. This morning, out of curiosity, I ran a photo of my whiteboard drawing through AI. Amazing! It was good enough that I put it on my course page.
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I am grateful for this generous review of my article by @brandonwduke on @IReadJotwell. conlaw.jotwell.com/two-ways-…
SCC announced today that Zadeh is coming down this week. 1 down, 20 more to go!
Could be a busy month for the Supreme Court of Canada! Lots of cases left to be decided in which Justice Martin sat on the panel. If she's going to participate in the outcome, they'll need to get decided in the next 5 weeks...
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Did a quick check, using ChatGPT and Claude to vet each other, and it appears that, over the past 20 years, there are at most 13 SCC decisions in which a Justice who heard the case was excluded because he/she ran out of time, post-retirement. Possibly much lower.
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Could be a busy month for the Supreme Court of Canada! Lots of cases left to be decided in which Justice Martin sat on the panel. If she's going to participate in the outcome, they'll need to get decided in the next 5 weeks...
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Canada gives retired justices six months to participate in reserved cases they sat in. So, ex-justice Sheilah Martin may or may not participate in some 21 judgments in the next 5 weeks: michaelplaxton.substack.com/…
The 6 months’ grace is better than Australia’s transitional chaos…
Did a quick check, using ChatGPT and Claude to vet each other, and it appears that, over the past 20 years, there are at most 13 SCC decisions in which a Justice who heard the case was excluded because he/she ran out of time, post-retirement. Possibly much lower.
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I am actually quite enjoying Samuel Alito's book, So Ordered. It is only a collection of speeches, but a whole lot packed into them.
I am actually quite enjoying Samuel Alito's book, So Ordered. It is only a collection of speeches, but a whole lot packed into them.
Could be a busy month for the Supreme Court of Canada! Lots of cases left to be decided in which Justice Martin sat on the panel. If she's going to participate in the outcome, they'll need to get decided in the next 5 weeks...
michaelplaxton.substack.com/…
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Getting my grubby little paws on actual evidence.
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Legal Theory Bookworm: “Truth About Natural Law” by Tamanaha: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11416…
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Curious development in Canadian causation law. "Legal causation" has always included "remoteness" in the US, but the touchstone for "proximate cause" is generally foreseeability. It's not clear to me why we should dispense with the term "legal causation." teapawt.org/MichaelPlaxton/status/…
