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6 Mar 2024, 4:00 am
” Adam Dodek, “Mispronouncing names isn’t okay, and it has nothing to do with being ‘woke’” There’s a movement underway in the legal community to focus attention on the proper pronunciation of names in legal settings. [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:00 am
This piece was written as an op-ed assignment in Professor Adam Dodek’s Professional Responsibility course. [read post]
23 May 2023, 4:00 am
. ___________ [1] Constance Backhouse, “Gender and Race in the Construction of ‘Legal Professionalism’: Historical Perspectives” in Adam Dodek & Alice Woolley, eds, In Search of the Ethical Lawyer: Stories from the Canadian Legal Profession (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016) 126 at 134-137. [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
… Double Aspect It’s Not What You Think Originalism has long been, in Adam Dodek’s pithy phrase, a “dirty word” in Canadian constitutional law. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 4:00 am
Pour … Double AspectIt’s Not What You Think Originalism has long been, in Adam Dodek’s pithy phrase, a “dirty word” in Canadian constitutional law. [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 11:02 am
(Merriam Webster) There is a ticking time bomb buried deep in the 2022 Federal Budget.It is deviously hidden at page 274 in Annex 3 in a manner so as to avoid detection, debate and the democratic process itself. [read post]
31 Aug 2021, 4:00 am
In 2016, Adam Dodek wrote a Slaw column entitled “Ending Bullying in the Legal Profession”, in which he called on Law Societies to turn their attention from incivility to focus on bullying instead. [read post]
13 Jul 2021, 9:17 am
Devlin, “Begun in Faith: Continued in Determination”, in Adam Dodek and Alice Woolley, eds. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 9:44 am
LAW LIBRARY reference room (level 2): KE4120 .P82 2020Craig Forcese, Adam Dodek, Philip Bryden, Richard Haigh, Mary Liston & Constance MacIntosh, eds. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 7:42 am
I spoke about the first at the Symposium commemorating the 125th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada in September 2000, reproduced in the Canadian Bar Review, with a revised and updated version appearing previously in 2010 in Judicial Independence in Context, edited by Adam Dodek and Lorne Sossin. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 4:00 am
As Adam Dodek has said, the Supreme Court used “the language of discretion while invoking the logic of duty”.[7] He argued that the test ought to be mandatory, framing it as a lawyer’s duty to take steps to prevent harm based on a moral imperative that flows from the privileged position lawyers hold within society. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 4:00 am
(Adam Dodek’s Slaw posts are essential reading on this). [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 4:00 am
On October 25 & 26, Windsor Law proudly hosted the 2019 conference of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. [read post]
28 Nov 2019, 4:01 am
Boyle on Dispute Resolution [Slaw archives] Adam Dodek on Legal Education [Slaw archives] John Gregory on Legal Technology [Slaw archives] Patricia Hughes on Justice Issues [Slaw archives] Cameron Hutchison on Legal Ethics [Slaw archives] Ian Mackenzie on Adjudication [Slaw archives] Matt Maurer on Cannabis Law [Slaw archives] National Self-Represented Litigants Project on Access to Justice [Slaw archives] Amy Salyzyn on Legal Ethics [Slaw archives] Noel Semple on Legal Ethics… [read post]
3 Sep 2019, 10:29 am
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue the UK Parliament last week reminded us of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s twice-proroguing of the Canadian Parliament in the space of about a year. [read post]
13 Aug 2019, 11:38 am
Indeed, given Chief Justice Wagner’s suggestion, it is worth noting a critique of his own performance during the question and answer session, by (now) Dean Adam Dodek, who suggested in a Globe and Mail commentary, that since the first hearing “the hearings have since denigrated into a legal equivalent of a Seinfeld episode: a hearing about nothing – or at least nothing of legal significance”. [read post]
10 Apr 2019, 4:00 am
(Craig Forcese’s post explains the principles very well, and Adam Dodek makes a persuasive argument that conjoining the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice roles is a mistake). [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 4:00 am
Retired Supreme Court of Canada judges can and do practice law in Canada. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 6:48 pm
Although the broad range of abuse was not covered, it has been noted before by Dean Adam Dodek that the abuse ranges from unpaid or underpaid work, termination without cause, harassment, and the absence of proper supervision or feedback. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 3:32 pm
Former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould’s resistance to the pressure by various actors to instruct the director of public prosecutions to offer to negotiate a remediation agreement (the Canadian name for a deferred prosecution agreement) with SNC-Lavalin and her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee have been explained in different ways: respect for the rule of law and the role of the attorney general, a lack of pragmatism or political experience, too much sense of self, a desire… [read post]
