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From time to time Slaw publishes posts by guest bloggers. The author will be identified at the start of the entry, and some biographical material will be available at its end.

Posts by Guest Blogger

Lawyers Should Not Abuse Their Perceived Legal Authority in Public Debate

by Fred Wu

Law Student-Led Legal Research Day Supports Environmental Law Reform

by Conner Wear

Book Review of the Mighty Hughes

by John D. Waddell, Q.C.

Beyond the Bitcoin Crash: Ontario Law Lays a Foundation for Enforceable Smart Contracts

by Charles von Simson

The T-Shaped Lawyer: Successful Skills and Abilities of Current and Future Lawyers

by Fernando Garcia

On the LSUC Dialogue on Licensing, Pt 2: Where Is Access to Justice?

by David Wiseman

On the LSUC Dialogue on Licensing, Pt 1: Is There a Need for Change?

by David Wiseman

New MMS.watch Website Tracks Constitutionality of Canadian Mandatory Minimum Sentences

by Matthew Oleynik

Curation Over Creation: Getting the Most Out of Existing Legal Information

by Benjamin Miller

The Positive Parenting Project: A Collaborative Local Initiative in the Therapeutic Justice Movement

by Liesha Earle

Lessons Learned in Criminal Law

by Anne-Marie McElroy

An AI to Make Me Smarter

by David Collier-Brown

Holding Refugees Hostage at Legal Aid Ontario

by Sean Rehaag

The Case for Redesigning Caselaw

by David Collier-Brown

The Accessibility of the LSAT: A Response to Dean Sossin and Dean Holloway

by Abdalla Barqawi

Suing for Defamation – a Call for Restraint

by Howard Winkler

Translation at SOQUIJ

by Vera Roy

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, We Are the Greatest of Them All: The Ideal and Challenge of Humility in the Legal Profession

by Karla Carranza

Constructing Competence: One Student’s Experience in Legal Education

by Sunil Sharma

The Need for a Broader Public Safety Exception: Ethical Duties to Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

by Jessica Moldaver

The Limits of Codes of Professional Conduct and the Value of a Lawyer Following Their Own Conscience: Lessons From Atticus Finch

by Catarina Ferreira

“Truth, Justice, and the Ethical Way”: The Legal Ethics of Government Lawyers

by Michele Valentini

Lawyers Behaving ‘Badly’: Should Lawyers Be Breaking the Rules?

by Tiffany Thomas

David Versus Goliath – Lawyer’s Professional Responsibility & Self-Represented Litigants

by Gurinder Gujral

The Lawyer Licensing System in Ontario

by Peter Wardle

Critical and Emerging Issues in Blockchain Law

by Addison Cameron-Huff and Donald B. Johnston

Dismantling the Roadblocks to Judicial Diversity

by Anna Wong

Canadian Association of Muslim Women in Law Receives 2016 SABA Diversity Award

by Fathima Cader

Standard of Review: The Great Passion of Canadian Law?

by John Kleefeld

‘If Not Us, Who? if Not Now, When?’: Reflections on the Law Society’s Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees Working Group Report

by Joanne St. Lewis

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