“HIV, Consent and Criminal Wrongs”

Tweet (2011) 57:4 The Criminal Law Quarterly 464-485. The issue of criminalizing the failure to disclosure HIV has been hotly contested in Canada for the last fifteen years.  I wrote this article to address what I have always viewed as an inadequate conceptual framework for analyzing it.  The Supreme Court of Canada propelled us down ...

“‘The question calls for an answer, and I propose to answer it’: The Patriation Reference as Constitutional Method”

“‘The question calls for an answer, and I propose to answer it’: The Patriation Reference as Constitutional Method”
Tweet (2011) 54 The Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 143-166. I was invited to contribute this piece as part of a commemorative panel on the Patriation Reference at the Osgoode 2010 Constitutional Cases Conference.  While most people analyze the Reference for what it says about constitutional conventions, I took a different approach.  I wanted to ...

“Developments in Constitutional Law – The 2009-2010 Term”

“Developments in Constitutional Law – The 2009-2010 Term”
Tweet (with Michael Plaxton)  (2010) 52 The Supreme Court Law Review 65-164

“Women and Power (or Powerful Women)”

“Women and Power (or Powerful Women)”
Tweet “Women and Power (or Powerful Women)”  in C. Mathen and K. Brooks, eds. Women, Law and Equality: A Discussion Guide  (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010) 177-264

“Developments in Constitutional Law – The 2008-2009 Term”

“Developments in Constitutional Law – The 2008-2009 Term”
Tweet (2009) 48 The Supreme Court Law Review 71-120

“What Religious Freedom Jurisprudence Reveals About Equality”

“What Religious Freedom Jurisprudence Reveals About Equality”
Tweet (2009) 6:2 Journal of Law and Equality 163-200. In the late 2000’s I was thinking a lot about women’s equality as it relates to freedom of religion. This piece grew out of that work. In it I investigate an interesting trend that really crystallized during that period: the presence of far more robust substantive ...

Book Review: “Kate Malleson and Peter Russell, eds: Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power”

Book Review: “Kate Malleson and Peter Russell, eds: Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power”
Tweet (2007-08) 39 Ottawa Law Review 133-141