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Leonid Sirota
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Leonid Sirota
@DoubleAspect
Legal academic, Associate Professor @UniRDG_Law. Mostly public law, dabble in jurisprudence; blogger, also mostly on (Canadian) public law.
Reading, England Katılım Kasım 2012
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The perennial appeal of nationalism and socialism shows how broken human nature really is.
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Mancini on Textualism in Canada, legaltheoryblog.com/2026/03/11/man… - Mark Mancini (Thompson Rivers University – Faculty of Law) has posted “Text as Anchor” in Statutory Interpretation (Forthcoming, Canadian Bar Review) on SSRN.
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@Boblowsky It's a Superior Court judge, so the Canadian Judicial Council would have jurisdiction over a complaint against him.
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@DoubleAspect Don't count on it. Only a decisive intervention of the Quebec Judicial Council ("Conseil de la magistrature du Québec") will rid us of this judge...
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Looks like a first Canadian judgment that is full of AI hallucinations. If so, I hope Geoffroy J has the good sense to resign, and quickly. lapresse.ca/actualites/jus…
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1936: A New York bill would ban Radio from answering questions related to licensed professions like law. (via our substack newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/nyc-once-ban…)
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
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I want to up the ante on this. If you have a large document collection, I will digitize it for you, for free (you pay for inference), on one condition: that we make the data publicly available immediately.
Noah Dasanaike@dasanaike
Social scientists working with materials requiring digitization can only study what machines can read. In practice, that means printed Latin-script documents from well-funded archives. In a new working paper, I show that Vision Language Models used zero-shot outperform every existing OCR system across every script evaluated, and I propose a pipeline for deploying them on new collections. I apply it to six archival collections spanning 1.8 million pages across six countries for under $1,900.
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My piece is here: journals.library.ualberta.ca/constitutional…
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Pleased to be part of this. I defend the ONCA's approach to constitutional interpretation, criticize the SCC's persistent mishandling of the Charter's s 3, and caution that courts must remain vigilant in election law—misplaced deference is as wrong as unwarranted interventionism.
Centre for Constitutional Studies@CentreConstStud
We're excited to announce publication of a new special issue of the Constitutional Forum, focusing on the Ontario Court's Appeal's decision in Fair Voting BC (a constitutional challenge to Canada's electoral system). You can access the full issue here: constitutionalstudies.ca/2026/03/forum-…
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New post: introducing my new article on Canadian constitutional conventions being forgotten or disregarded. doubleaspect.blog/2026/02/24/for…
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Finally published, in the Dalhousie LJ: a piece looking at widespread, and sometimes wilful, forgetting of some constitutional conventions in Canada, and wondering what, if anything, might be done about it. Link below.
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We won our tariff case! A 6-3 decision. Yay!!!!! Much more to come later. Here is the link to the opinion: supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf…
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Worth reading and comparing with distressingly similar tendencies and developments this side of the Channel.
Roseline Letteron@Libertescheries
La disparition progressive du jury populaire, ou la fin de la justice démocratique. libertescheries.blogspot.com/2026/02/la-dis…
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Amazing. Someone released population figures showing we’re growing faster than some stagnating European countries — albeit at a much reduced rate compared to our historic average — and the reaction on here is not “hurrah, we’re catching up” but “my God, why aren’t we dawdling along like Italy.” What would our optimistic, ambitious ancestors — the ones who thought we’d already be at 100 million by now — make of this timorous lot?
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I do hope some entreprising journalists can get to the bottom of this.
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ICYMI: A disastrous giveaway of federal power may be in progress — or not, depending on whether Quebec's Justice Minister is telling the truth!
Leonid Sirota@DoubleAspect
New post: the Quebec Justice Minister says the federal government is negotiating to give the province a role in judicial appointments. If this is true, this must be brought to light — and stopped. (With link and quotation.) doubleaspect.blog/2026/02/13/wha…
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@LawProfHolloway I can imagine. That's part of why I'm more than a little sceptical, but then again, one shouldn't bet against a government doing something daft, right?
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@DoubleAspect If true, this is exactly the sort of thing that will fuel further resentment in Alta (and, to a lesser extent, in Sask). It would be catnip for the separatist crowd.
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New post: the Quebec Justice Minister says the federal government is negotiating to give the province a role in judicial appointments. If this is true, this must be brought to light — and stopped. (With link and quotation.) doubleaspect.blog/2026/02/13/wha…
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