Double Aspect Pod – Details, episodes & analysis

Mark Mancini and Leonid Sirota discuss Leonid's article "(How) can big government be kept accountable?", which he recently wrote for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

To read more about this and other Canadian constitutional and administrative law issues, check out the award winning Double Aspect Blog.

In this episode, Mark Mancini and Leonid Sirota discuss Justice Russell Brown's June 12, 2023, retirement from the Supreme Court of Canada, in the midst of a lengthy investigation by the Canadian Judicial Council into alleged misbehaviour. To read more about this and other Canadian constitutional and administrative law issues, check out the award winning Double Aspect blog.

Professor Camden Hutchison joins co-hosts Mark Mancini and Leonid Sirota to discuss his new paper "Freedom of Expression: Values and Harms", recently published in the Alberta Law Review.

In the interview, Professor Hutchison explains his concerns with how Canada's courts engage in a "value analysis" when evaluating section 2(b) Charter claims. He suggests a new "harm analysis" approach as a useful alternative, and answers questions about the limits and applications of this new methodology.

To read more about this and other Canadian constitutional and administrative law issues, check out the award winning Double Aspect Blog.

For a special episode aimed at law students, especially students who are just starting law school, the Double Aspect Pod welcomes its first guest, Justice David Stratas of the Federal Court of Appeal. Justice Stratas shares his experience and thoughts on what it takes to succeed in law school ― and beyond.

Some further reading:

Justice Stratas writing tips; and also, Mark Mancini's post on "The First Year of Law School".

Welcome to Double Aspect's experimental venture into podcasting! Canadian public law scholars and bloggers Leonid Sirota and Mark Mancini try out a new medium to discuss the merits/procedure distinction in recent administrative law cases, a case that tickles their respective interests in election law and statutory interpretation, and recent controversy over medical assistance in dying. The technical side of things will take some work (on Sirota's end), but we hope that the conversation is interesting enough to make up for it. Please let us know what you think!

A few links: 

• The Double Aspect blog
• Mancini's Sunday Evening Administrative Review newsletter
• Sirota & Mancini's post on Therrien v Directeur Général des élections