[Introductory note: In 1929, the “Famous Five” feminist activists (Henrietta Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy,and Irene Parlby) argued in the Supreme Court of Canada that women were “persons,” as the Canadian constitution puts it, qualified to sit in the country’
As a bit of fun on this hot summer’s Friday, an offering from Miller’s Maxims, my writings as self-appointed poet laureate to the Canadian bar. The Law Does Not Concern Itself with Truffles De minimis non curat lex (“The law does not concern itself with trifles” – an old l
I recently completed a book – Justice as Nostalgia: A New Theory of Justice as Integral to Culture – promulgating a notion of justice based on an archetypal approach to the social contract, an approach incorporating the conscientious neighbour (a more demanding “reasonable person,” as