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Law Is Cool is a new blawg and podcast addressing issues related to law school and the legal field with a Canadian focus. The contents are intended for 1) current and potential law students; 2) graduates reviewing for their bar exam; and 3) members of the general public interested in learning more about the law.

Author: Adrian Di Lullo and Gerard Kennedy are law students at Queen’s University this year; Thomas Wisdom is a law student at Osgoode Hall; Daniel Simard is in the joint LLB and Masters of Environmental Studies at Osgoode Hall and York University; Gail Geronimo is a law student at the University of Ottawa; Jacob Kaufman, Navjot Dhaliwal, Ken Saddington and Omar Ha-Redeye are are law students at the University of Western Ontario; Kashif Ahmed and Vimal Baid are law students at the University of Saskatchewan; Marie Winfield is a law student at the McGill University in Montreal; Rob Evans is in the LLB/JD joint program at the University of Windsor and University of Detroit Mercy.

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Recent Posts from Law Is Cool

  • Sexual assault sentencing

    Quebec woman avoids jail for sex assault on son A 55-year-old woman has been given a conditional sentence, to be served in the community, for sexually assaulting her teenage son.

  • Cop Tasers 10 Year Old…

    In a story that seems even more far fetched than an episode of “COPS” an Arkansas police officer has been suspended in part for applying his taser to a 10 year old girl. However, the…

  • Stripping of citizenship

    Accused war criminal wins chance to keep citizenship An appeal court has ordered the federal cabinet to revisit its decision to strip accused Nazi war criminal Helmut Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship.

  • Court officer ordered to apologize

    In the latest developments of this bizarre case in Maricopa County, Arizona, Judge Gary Donohue has ruled that detention officer Adam Stoddard acted inappropriately when he removed and photocopied a document from the file of…

  • A contract to end the homework

    How one family won the battle to ban homework Shelli and Tom Milley were exhausted by the weepy weeknight struggles over math problems and writing assignments with their three school-aged children. They were fed up…

  • Secret lists

    ‘No-fly’ watchdogs blasted Tonda MacCharles writes: Canada’s “no-fly” list took effect in June 2007, and almost everything about it – the number of names, the deletions, how it works – is classified. It is believed…

  • No “necessity” defence for environmental activist in Utah case

    A Utah District Court judge ruled yesterday that environmental activist, Tim DeChristopher, would not be able to present a defence of necessity at the trial where he faces charges for fraud and for violating the…

  • Serial rapist not forgotten

    Cold case search resumes for Woodland Rapist The Woodland Rapist case haunts seasoned investigators as it did when his reign of terror gripped the Oakville community in the days after a joint Halton-Peel-Waterloo task force…

  • Strikers To Target Students…

    Yesterday at 00:01, the London Transit Commission went on strike for the first time in almost 30 years.  The local 741 Amalgamated Transit Union and the City of London are, depending on who you talk…

  • Lobbyism

    Ottawa tightening rules on lobbyists Susan Delacourt and Richard Brennan write for the Toronto Star: The federal government is cracking down on lobbyists working for Crown corporations and institutions such as the Toronto Port Authority and…


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