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Mary Liston
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Law Prof @AllardLaw @UBC ssrn.com/author=91545. Public law enthusiast, admin law mavin, reasonable person (except when hungry), gardener, beekeeper.
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We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference, 1-4 July 2026, Cape Town.
The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy".
Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382...
Details⬇️
August 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Allard Law alumni Nermin Karim, Mara Selanders and Joey Doyle discussed their experiences completing our Specialization in Law and Social Justice and how it helped shape their careers. allard.ubc.ca/about-us/new...
How Allard Law’s Specialization in Law and Social Justice can ground your social justice career
Allard Law alumni shared their experiences with Allard Law’s Specialization in Law and Social Justice.
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August 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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May 20, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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We're excited to announce publication of a new special issue of the Constitutional Forum!! The new issue presents new scholarship on the Charter's application to private legal relations (its "horizontal effect"). You can view the full issue for free here: www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2025/04/foru...
May 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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brennancenter.org
President Trump has declared 8 national emergencies since the beginning of his second term. And we are only 100 days in — making this a record invocation of emergency power by any modern U.S. president.
April 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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allard.ubc.ca
Op-ed: Professor Scott Franks argues a recent petition to stop land acknowledgments lacks an understanding of Canada’s constitutional framework and has a deep mischaracterization of land acknowledgments as a “political position”. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Land acknowledgments aren’t political. They uphold the rule of law in Canada
A petition from four faculty members and a student from the University of British Columbia is based on a misunderstanding of Canada’s constitutional framework
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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I stand with Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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marinklevy.bsky.social
An important piece from Trevor Morrison and @rickpildes.bsky.social today 👇
Opinion | This Is What the Courts Can Do if Trump Defies Them
How the escalating measures available to courts would work.
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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BC Law Students! @BCLawInstitute &CBA-BC's new Mathew Good Memorial Prize. Submit your essay exploring #A2J & law reform. Winner gets $1,000 prize (courtesy @LawFoundationBC) & opportunity 2B published on BCLI website & in CBABC BarTalk. Details: bcli.org/matgoodprize
The BCLI Mathew Good Memorial Prize - British Columbia Law Institute
About the BCLI Mathew Good Memorial Prize The British Columbia Law Institute (BCLI), with the support of Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia (CBABC), is pleased to announce the first annual BCL...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?” Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence. “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked. Shumate said, “it absolutely is.” “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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A Dicey Anthology
The anthology Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey: The Enduring Legacy of a Victorian Constitutionalist (Hart/Bloomsbury), edited by Catherine Marshall and Céline Roynier, has been published: Every student in law and in…
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December 24, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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The House of Commons Library is a national treasure, and this looks like a really valuable primer, by David Torrance, on how laws are made, where powers are exercised, and what we need to know if we want to understand how (and by whom) we're governed.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
The United Kingdom constitution - a mapping exercise
A briefing paper which "maps" (or summarises) the main elements of the United Kingdom's uncodified constitution.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 27, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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@lpcprof.bsky.social I'd like to be added to the law and humanities list
November 17, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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We have three faculty positions @AllardLaw with deadlines approaching. Please circulate! And, if one of the positions fits you, please consider applying! Info here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/new...
New faculty job postings at Allard Law
The Peter A. Allard School of Law is recognized as one of the leading law schools in Canada. Allard Law invites applications for three faculty member appointments.
allard.ubc.ca
October 24, 2024 at 4:59 AM
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Tenure-track or tenured Asst, Assoc, or Full Prof appointment @AllardLaw. An open position, but we are particularly interested in disability, health, domestic human rights, natural resources, and/or law & technology areas. Deadline: Nov 18, 2024. Ad here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our...
Careers at Allard Law
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top public universities globally. A large part of what makes us unique is the community o...
allard.ubc.ca
October 17, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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REMINDER: @AllardLaw is hiring a full-time tenured or tenure-track appointment for an Indigenous scholar at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Deadline extended to November 4, 2024. Please circulate and/or consider applying! Posting here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our...
Careers at Allard Law
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top public universities globally. A large part of what makes us unique is the community o...
allard.ubc.ca
October 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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REMINDER: As part of @UBC’s Black Cohort Hiring Initiative, @AllardLaw is hiring at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. The deadline to apply for this position is October 31, 2024. Please circulate and/or consider applying! Posting here: allard.ubc.ca/about-us/our...
Careers at Allard Law
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top public universities globally. A large part of what makes us unique is the community o...
allard.ubc.ca
October 15, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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emmettmacfarlane.com
Prof. Jared Wesley - a cautious, thoughtful observer of political affairs - writes an important post everyone should read: “The UCP is a threat to democracy”
drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/the-ucp-is...

(also, not gonna say I called it, but I called it: emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/whats-at-s...)
The UCP is a threat to democracy
It's time we stopped pretending otherwise and took action
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May 1, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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I sure did. And here’s what I said.
Remarks delivered at April 18 2024 student-faculty-staff press conference at Columbia University, outside the President’s House, in the wake of riot police removing peaceful protestors from campus.* My name is Joseph Howley and I'm an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics. I'm here as a member of several faculty groups: Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, the AAUP, and a group of more than 20 Jewish faculty members who two weeks ago sent a letter to Minouche Shafik ahead of the Congressional hearing expression our grave concerns. I'm here today to stand with our students. I have previously risen on occasions like this to speak as a Jewish member faculty because it seemed important to me that Jewish professors be here to say certain things. But I’m here today simply a professor, as a member of this community, as someone who walks their kids to school every day across this campus, as someone who of playing the identity politics games, of being divided from the rest Yesterday our university leaders went in front of Congress and in the face of absurd and hateful interrogation from white nationalist lawmakers, conceded a series of laughable and dangerous propositions about the nature of language and politics and our university. Worse, they endangered the professional reputations and safety of faculty members by discussing discipline and hiring and firing on live television and seeming to bargain away the careers of my colleagues in the face of political pressure. And today, still clinging, after six months, and an actual chemical attack on protestors on our campus, still clinging to the idea that rhetoric and words are a form of threat and unsafety on this campus, in the name of public safety, they have endangered every single member of this campus community and our students in particular by bringing the police onto campus. I wish the last few months had left me with greater confidence that the University’s response today was about how students we Major decisions at this institution are being guided by people who are more concerned with PR and appeasing Republican House members and special interest groups than with the values of a liberal education and a just society. This is what happens when faculty are not in the room. This is what happens when expensive lawyers who don’t know our institution or values are brought in to enforce our rules and discipline our students and advise our leaders. We get cops dragging students off campus when we have done find without them for more than fifty years. I need to stress as a member of this faculty what a violation it is of historic norms on this campus to see riot cops breaking up peaceful protests. It will be an historic stain on our reputation and is already a deep wound in our community. Today more than a hundred of our brave students risked arrest and violence at the hands of police standing up for something they believe in. I can’t help but contrast their courage and principles Columbia can either be a world-class place of research and learning, or we can be an institution that resorts to law-and-order responses to protest even when there’s no threat to safety or operations, but we can’t be both. We can either be a top tier university that supports the safety and well being of all community members or we can be an institution that allows nationalist politics to dictate speech codes and use of force against our students. But we can’t be both. Tonight hundreds of faculty are going to bed wondering, what now? what’s next? what can we do? I don’t have any good answers, but I know one thing: we all need to stand with our students. We need to ask, how did this happen? How did our leaders get such bad advice and make such terrible mistakes? In the absence of real leadership we the faculty all need to pull together and create space to ask these questions, to heal and repair our community, and reclaim this proud institution. And that begins with getting nationalis
April 21, 2024 at 1:50 PM
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theglobeandmail.com
B.C. formally recognizes Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii: The unprecedented agreement – which has been decades in the making – was reached outside of the courts or the B.C. treaty process
B.C. formally recognizes Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii
The unprecedented agreement – which has been decades in the making – was reached outside of the courts or the B.C. treaty process
www.theglobeandmail.com
April 15, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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A good story: Edward Roncarelli had a wonderful life which is in itself a tribute to his equally wonderful father Frank
Edward RONCARELLI Obituary (2024) - The Globe and Mail
Ettore (Edward, Ed or Etti), Alessandro Roncarelli, age 91, died on March 19, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada. Ed was born in Milan, Italy, in 1932. Choosing not to live under the Mussolini regime, his father
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March 23, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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Wonderful opportunity alert! Write in Residence @GreenCollegeUBC . Details here greencollege.ubc.ca/writer-resid...
Writer in Residence at Green College: 2024 Call for Applications | Green College
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February 9, 2024 at 12:53 AM
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With its extra funding, the IRS has...
-Collected $160 million from rich tax cheats (so far)
-Audited Microsoft and charged it $29 billion in back taxes
-Made it easier to file taxes through free-filing programs in 13 states
Remember this as the GOP tries to gut the agency.
January 12, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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December 27, 2023 at 3:11 PM