As a supplement to our Sunday Summary each month, Supreme Advocacy LLP in Ottawa presents Supreme One-Liners, a super-short descriptive guide to the most recent decisions at the Supreme Court of Canada. Supreme Advocacy LLP offers its more comprehensive weekly electronic newsletter, Supreme Advocacy Letter, summarizing all Appeals, Oral Judgments and Leaves to Appeal granted....Read More

By 2035, society had largely abandoned walking as a means of transportation. Urban planners, motivated by efficiency and data-driven optimisation, redesigned cities around autonomous electric vehicles. Pedestrian streets were repurposed into rapid transit corridors. Walking was confined to indoor spaces, explicitly private residences and commercial complexes. Walking was only executed to partake in menial, non-essential...Read More

[Image by Amy Lloyd] Listening to Season 29 of Wondery’s Business Wars, it’s clear that AIRBUS is outpacing its competition. Several factors contribute to AIRBUS’s dominance, but one stands out: its corporate culture of innovation[1] extending even to its legal and procurement teams. As of at least 2015, AIRBUS has a “contract innovators team” that...Read More

A recent CBC article from British Columbia indicated that a self-represented party used Microsoft Copilot to assist with legal research: the artificial intelligence (AI) program generated 10 cases, nine of which were hallucinated. The hallucinated cases were ‘caught’ during a proceeding at the Civil Resolution Tribunal, but this incident and the possibility of others like...Read More

A few weeks ago, I went to the dentist for the first time in years—thanks to finally having work benefits. I expected a routine cleaning, some X-rays, and maybe a reminder to floss more. Instead, the appointment took an unexpected turn when the dentist launched into a sales pitch for Invisalign. At 29, with relatively...Read More

When a stranger breaks the rules in a scary way, it is always tempting to banish them. This old-fashioned word might suggest disgraced medieval nobles driven from of their kingdoms. But banishment occurs whenever a person is cast out from what used to be their home or social group. A few examples of modern-day banishment:...Read More

Civility and its importance are contested in the Canadian legal profession and the Canadian legal academy. [1] Moreover, civility and the broader concept of professionalism have a shameful history as exclusionary concepts with significant negative impact on the ability of members of equity-seeking groups to join the legal profession and succeed in the practice of...Read More

I was recently speaking with someone about the Internet’s “Eternal September”, which is the concept that starting in 1993/1994 so many new users started using the internet that it could never settle into the online equivalent of November on campus, when people have figured things out where their classes are and where to get the...Read More

An email from a faculty member at the University of Toronto on the topic of AI made the rounds at law schools across Canada recently. It’s about using AI on final exams. It points out that if a student has an app already open when they launch Examplify – the software most schools use to...Read More