The new issue of Amicus Curiae, UWO Law’s new student paper, came out today with an article on student bloggers.
Omar Ha-Redeye and Lawrence Gridin co-authored a piece, Blogging is My Legal Education Outside the Classroom, talking about Law is Cool and Slaw.
The school paper also started posting selected articles to Law is Cool.
Liberal Party leader and Leader of the Official Opposition, Michael Ignatieff, spoke at the 2009 UWO Law Alumni Dinner.
This year marked the law school’s 50th anniversary.
The Western Law Alumni of Distinction Award was presented to Doug Ferguson, Director of the Clinical Legal Services (CLS) at Western and outgoing President of the Liberal Party.
The event was sponsored by Lerners LLP.
Omar Ha-Redeye, Doug Ferguson, and Lawrence Gridin at the 2009 UWO Law Alumni Dinner.
The detailed results of the 2009 Davies LLP Corporate Securities Moot came in recently.
Omar Ha-Redeye was ranked as one of the top 15 oralists in the national competition, which typically attracts the best mooters and business law students in the country.
Jordan Furlong of Law21 hosted Blawg Review #207, where he covered the topic of changes to the print media,
Newspapers are dying, right? We all know that — at least, all of us except the Associated Press, The Atlantic, and a few others. Jeff Jarvis at Buzz Machine and Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 get it, and they’ve been trying to explain the new rules to the surviving members of the print publishing industry, but it’s a little like teaching dinosaurs to have warm blood. The legal press hasn’t yet succumbed as badly as its mainstream relations, but its day is coming soon: Omar Ha-Redeye at Law Is Cool (one of the many Canadian law blogs we’ll be featuring during what Michel-Adrien Sheppard of Library Boy reminds us is Law Week in Canada) explains how the internet is already changing legal media too.
April exams bring May flowers.
But Mayflowers bring Pilgrims.
And Pilgrims bring disease.
Therefore, rejoice in exams, and cherish health.
Jeremy Barretto of The Court built off a recent post at Slaw on the case of George Galloway. He explores in greater depth the use of Roncarelli v Duplessis as a basis for the case.
Baretto concludes,
Whatever the case, the following question is inescapable: if Galloway is in fact a threat to our national security why was he allowed to speak freely in the US?
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada.
May spoke at Western Law as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series on How to fight climate change while restoring democracy.
See the article by Kamila Pizon on the talk.
Monia Mazigh, the wife of Maher Arar who campaigned tirelessly for his return to Canada, spoke at UWO Law today.
After a Royal Commission that exonerated him, Arar received an apology from the RCMP and compensation from the Canadian government to help cover his legal costs. Despite this, nobody has been held accountable in Canada, and he continues to face difficulties over his inclusion on lists in the U.S.
She said her husband’s case is just one of many that the Canadian public need to learn more about.
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