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Chevron Corp. v. Naranjo: Goliath’s global anti-enforcement injunction against David The clichéd David vs. Goliath depiction is one which is often used when describing legal cases. But Ecuador’s Lago Agrio community vs. the Chevron Corporation is one legal battle which aptly fits the analogy. The controversial case has a long history, involving alleged envir […]

I apologize for the at-times-Toronto-centric nature of this blog, but public transit in Rob Ford’s Hogtown is too contentious an issue to ignore. Though this case stems from the before-Ford era, the issues that it considers are as pressing today as ever. Back in 2003—under the leadership of Mel Lastman, of all people—the City of [...]

In our first year torts class, our professor told us that those people who came to law school thinking that they were going to change the world had come to the wrong place. The law, by its nature, is a conservative institution. It follows social momentum, it doesn’t create it; it is complicit in the [...]