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
As I write, it is May 19, feast day of the patron saint of lawyers, St. Ives, a.k.a. Yves, Yvo, Ivo, Ervoan, and Evona. He lived from 1253 to 1303, and was canonized by Pope Clement VI in 1347. Still, his fate at the hands of folk culture proves that, no matter what benefit lawyers ha
The Supreme Court of Canada has given the Liberal government until June 6 to amend the Criminal Code so that “physician-assisted death” is legal in specified circumstances. Yet some Senate members have threatened to delay the amendment’s passage. While this looks like a potential cont