These are great resources for practitioners engaging with the GAA & for scholars thinking about financial consumer protection law.

Rachel's LLM thesis, which looked at the history behind the Guarantees Acknowledgement Act & efforts to reform it, is also now available through the University of Alberta's thesis depository: era.library.ualberta.ca/items/8738fe...

Yes please!

Right back at you, Florence. 💚

My new article, published in the Ottawa Law Review, details 9 strategies that judges use to promote fairness in adversarial hearings, where one party is frequently absent or self-represented & what this means for the security of tenure of borrowers. rdo-olr.org/security-of-...

I had a student this year say they liked this approach because it was easier for them to extract stuff from & put it into their notes. So that's one data point!

I haven't taught corporations in a number of years now, but in some of my other courses, I have moved towards a word document per topic and then I excerpt cases & articles in it, and add in some of my own commentary/editor's notes. I like that it's pretty easy to edit & all in one place.

We had an "in-house" casebook that I inherited from my senior colleagues and then updated year to year to reflect changes in the case law (not a ton of work) and changes in my focus in terms of topics in the class (more work, but entirely self-imposed).