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Referendum Trudeau

He campaigned in poetry but governed in prose

Rinkside Reading

What does hockey’s literature say about the sport?

Alarm Bells

Fort McMurray and fires hence

Allan C. Hutchinson

Allan C. Hutchinson is Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and author of Is Killing People Right? Further Great Cases That Shaped Society, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

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Allan C. Hutchinson

Style and Substance

What happens when we view legal judgements as literary documents? December 2015
Trying to get your head around what is going on in judicial opinions is no easy task. The legal world is professionally opaque and often deliberately so; it is as though there was a continuing and ill-disguised conspiracy against the laity. Furthermore, because judges come in many, but not all, shapes and sizes, so do their judgements—they can be…