Come join us on Thursday at 11:30 a.m. to listen to Peter Sankoff talk about his new book about legal writing! Everyone is welcome! UNB Prison Law Society University of New Brunswick Law Journal UNB Law UNB LawLibrary UNB Law_RJS International Law Society UNB Law

Man, if he's worried about racism wait until someone tells him about Bill 21. twitter.com/CBCPolitics/st…

MORE: Cardy's two-page resignation letter to Higgs is absolutely stunning, one of the most remarkable things I've read in New Brunswick politics. 'Wrecking ball.' 'Consolidation of power in your own hands.' 'Data my ass.'

My article, 'Canadian Anti-SLAPP Laws in Action', has just been published in the Canadian Bar Review. cbr.cba.org/index.php/cbr/… Please feel free to share. UNB Law CMLA/AdIDEM

New issue of the Canadian Bar Review/La Revue du Barreau canadien. Pieces by Noel Semple, Hilary Young, Mark P. Mancini, Amissi M. Manirabona, Ph.D., Anna Lund, Jonathan Chan, Martin Petrin, Trevor Courtis, Giacomo Marchisio & Andrew Green.
Canadian Bar Assoc., Wissam Aoun. cbr.cba.org/index.php/cbr/…

I clerked at the Supreme Court. Last night, I assumed a liberal clerk leaked the draft opinion overturning Roe. Now I think MUCH more likely it was leaked by a conservative fanatically committed to every word of Alito’s monstrous opinion. **🧵**

The DSA had a fairly open, democratic drafting process until the past few weeks.
But what is happening now is shameful. Interest groups are getting ideas tacked on — things that will become binding law for a generation — that never had any public airing, debate, or input at all.

Ooooh, aaahhhh. Pretty blue colour. :-)

Academic gravitas:

An episode of the pod with Robert Danay, Hilary Young and David Quayat (@DQ59633013) about Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya, 2020 SCC 5 was cited by Gerard Kennedy in a recent article in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

BREAKING: the first @stereodecisis podcast episode since December of 2020 is now live!

On this episode, Hilary Young and Robert Danay discuss the apparent new trend in which judges in Canada have been creating new common law torts.

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'Fining or taxing the #unvaccinated raises practical and legal problems.' Read Hilary Young's, health law expert & professor UNB, latest The Conversation Canada op ed to learn more about the legal issues.

Young's #InformedOps @ bit.ly/2Hb1s1b theconversation.com/covid-19-vacci…

UNB Law students, are you interested in helping with tenants' rights for a few hours? If so, let me know and I'll put you in touch with the NB Coalition for Tenants' Rights.

Feat. Katy Barnett Bobby Lindsay Paula Giliker Hilary Young JeannieMariePaterson among others

RCMP arrest journalists, matriarchs, land defenders on Wet’suwet’en territory thenarwhal.ca/journalists-ar…

Maybe being charged with criminal negligence causing death and being sued for negligence is also part of god's plan?

Looking for cool distractions over reading week? Check out blogs.dal.ca/dlj/2021/11/05… Hilary Young on the scope of defamation injunctions (and hey - a podcast!) SchulichSchoolofLaw

Suspected neurological illness is debilitating and even killing patients in New Brunswick, but provincial health officials are questioning whether a mysterious brain disease is really behind it. Q+A w/ Matthew Halliday, by Angela Sterritt 📘 cbc.ca/player/play/19… Front Burner