The Lawyers Weekly article that Omar refers to also quotes from
a Slaw comment about the Waldman lawsuit, attributing the words to «one lawyer commenting on the Slaw legal weblog» rather than a specific person.
Given that the LW writer quoted from
a Slaw comment, we're entitled to assume she read the Slaw lead article and all of the comments.
The 20 December 2005 judgment of Judge John Jones in Kitzmiller v. Dover School District (here in PDF, 139 pages) is worthwhile reading (and was briefly mentioned in an earlier
SLAW comment on a different topic).
http://blog.lesaonline.org/ The time stamp (Alberta time) on this is 10 minutes after
your Slaw Comment.
And somehow more directly than via
Slaw comments.
Well Google has been the subject of many
Slaw comments, but it's on the legal side that it's hit the news recently.
One of the reasons I love checking Lektora for
Slaw comments!
Well, I've made a few changes recently, and started to use the RSS feed for
Slaw Comments.
I welcome
Slaw comments and thoughts.
Not exact matches
I hope you love this
slaw as much as the first one, and when you make it let me know what you think in the
comments below!
Before you fill my
comment box that the purpose of crack
slaw is to be low carb alternative to egg rolls, I decided to make it both ways.
There's a lot involved here, so I'll have to
comment in more detail within my
Slaw article, but the economics of $ 40,000 / month per 1,000 visitors — remember that's visitors and not clients — is very poor.
It will be very important for people like the members of
Slaw, i.e. sophisticated users of legal information systems, to
comment.
Of course
Slaw gets lots of
comments — because we have lots of contributors talking amongst ourselves which makes others feel a bit more comfortable to join in.
The easiest way of replying to your statements is to ask that you read the articles cited in my
comment, and the other relevant articles listed on my SSRN author's page, at: http://ssrn.com/author=1398484; and listed on my
Slaw author's page, at: http://www.
slaw.ca/author/chasse/ However, I offer the following few
comments, but each requires the fuller explanation as set out in those articles.
While some have defended the Statement (see Omar Ha - Redeye here on
SLAW and Renatta Austin's
comments on The Current) most commentary has been harshly... [more]
Five and a half years ago, I wrote a
comment on
Slaw questioning why the Canada Elections Act precluded most non-resident Canadians from voting.
The problem, however, as Anne Vespry cogently argued on our legal ethics listserv (and «Bob Smith» also noted in
comments on Omar Ha - Redeye's
SLAW column), is that it is not clear that there is a legal basis for claiming that Ontario lawyers have a duty to promote equality, diversity and inclusion understood as a requirement to take active steps toward making the profession more equal, diverse and inclusive.
While some have defended the Statement (see Omar Ha - Redeye here on
SLAW and Renatta Austin's
comments on The Current) most commentary has been harshly critical.
[25] Bradley Wright, January 20, 2016 (8:00 pm),
comment on Karen Dyck, «Innovating Regulation on the Prairies,»
Slaw, January 20, 2016, http://www.
slaw.ca/2016/01/20/innovating-regulation-on-the-prairies/.
Add to that the more than 10,000
comments you've given us, and the
Slaw community has produced the equivalent of something like 66 novels.
We do not moderate
comments on
Slaw in the sense that we do not preview them before their publication; we do, however, promptly delete those that we find to be objectionable in one way or another — typically because they are simply attempts to promote the commenter's business.
In sum, with a rate of apparently anonymous
commenting at around 10 %, I'm persuaded that it's not a problem on
Slaw.
Quite a bit; until 2010 mixed martial arts was illegal in Ontario; however, a regulatory change announced last August and
commented on here at
Slaw at the time was implemented last Autumn and allowed for this multi-million dollar... [more]
With your indulgence, I'd like to ask
Slaw readers to
comment (via this blog or via Twitter @CanLII) on what manner of legal scholarship they want to see and what role if any they see for CanLII.
If you currently enjoy the discussion here at
Slaw via RSS, you may also wish to add the
comments feed for your feed reader.
Those who get
Slaw's entries by RSS or email may not regularly read
comments to our posts and so might have missed a rather important, laconic
comment to my entry yesterday on the New York Times's deep linking feature.
See the «public
comment version» of the draft 2nd edition of the Sedona Canada Principles, cited in my
Slaw post, for Feb. 12, 2015: «Electronic Discovery: The Concept and Purpose of the Sedona Canada Principles 2nd Edition» (http://goo.gl/L8cfMA).
I think the second StatsCan graph, headed \ Violent crime rate, 1962 to 2007 \, at this source is of assistance (source here, for some reason
Slaw keeps translating quote marks in my
comments as backslashes, which corrupts the hyperlink — anyone interested in viewing the graph should click on the link and then delete the final backslash from their address bar — or just go to the StatsCan Daily for July 17, 2008).
As valid as that
comment may be in the legal sphere generally, I would suggest that he check out
Slaw to determine its validity here.
You can subscribe to the
comments on
Slaw either as a separate matter (RSS, email) or as part of a subscription combining posts and... [more]
These
comments and developments were what I had in mind when I made my largely unsuccessful attempts to generate a discussion on
Slaw of what good research is or to explore the ideas of Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
A teacher and an author, John will add much lustre to
Slaw and certainly knows how to provoke us into a discussion: his mild, short first
comment on CanLII has rapidly turned into the hottest thread here in quite a while.
This is heartwarming for those of us who post to
Slaw: your
comments, whatever their complexion, are our rewards, and you've been bountiful.
We've reached a new milestone here on
Slaw:
comment number ten thousand.
Ben Schorr mentioned the case on
Slaw recently, starting with the
comment that «One thing has become clear in the last few months: Hollywood has declared war on the Internet.»
And finally, thank - you for the
comments you've been submitting to
Slaw Emmanuel, it's this type of conversation that keeps us all engaged.
Constructive criticism is important to a lawyer's development, and thoughtful
comments from
Slaw's wide and wise readership will no doubt help to encourage these and other students to pursue the difficult ethical matters they raise.
Comments are welcome on the posts themselves, or here at
Slaw.
Although I suspect someone on
SLAW has likely already
commented on what follows, I couldn't easily find a post (although Simon Fodden's post here in 2008 discusses CanLII's Database Search).
Many thanks, Simon, for the plug and your generous (as always)
comments —
Slaw has been Law21's biggest booster since its launch, and I really appreciate the tremendous support from
Slaw's authors and readers!
I also pose a question for
Slaw readers»
comments.
That blog generated more
comments than anything I have written for
Slaw and it led to numerous articling students, as well as one parent of an articling student, writing to me privately to share their experiences about articling.
Slaw's RSS feed for
comments hasn't been working properly, for some people at least, for the last four or five days, for reasons that we don't yet understand.
And curiously, as I reached the millennial mark, we as a group were also reaching a pair of important milestones (should say «kilostones» I guess): there have been 3003 posts to
Slaw since its inception, and 4010
comments made on those posts.
We do not moderate
comments on
Slaw in the sense that we do not preview them before their publication; we do, however, promptly delete those that we find to be objectionable in one way or... [more]
First, take the time to work through the
comments at the bottom of the
Slaw article.
This may be mere self - reflection for
Slaw, but I think it will be interesting some time from now to be able to look back and actually see the posts we made in a particular week and to have access to the various links referred to in the posts and
comments... [more]
I searched the
SLAW archives for the phrase «open access,» and Simon's two posts here and here (attracting no
comments) were the only results.
It would appear that the RSS feed for
Slaw has been hacked and an advertising link inserted at the top of both the post and
comment feeds.