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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

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…