Leonid Sirota
@DoubleAspect
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Legal academic, Associate Professor @UniRDG_Law. Mostly public law, dabble in jurisprudence; blogger, also mostly on (Canadian) public law.
Reading, England
Joined November 2012
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RT @JoshEakle: The courts just took a step to save the economy, the rule of law — and the very foundation of property rights. This thanks….
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Their way of thinking is, as I argue in my post, antithetical to what academia ought to stand for. And people who only see that when the other colour of woke does it are simply blind.
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Change the "pre-born babies" stuff for something about structural racism, and you get the woke left's rationale for excluding anyone to the right of Justin Trudeau from the public sphere. Vermeule is just another wokeist, and deserves the same opprobrium.
It would be peak absurdity for @Vermeullarmine (or anyone) to believe that pre-born babies are human beings and NOT want the view that allows them to be killed at will "stamped as abominable, beyond the realm of the acceptable forever".
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Quebec will ban street prayer—and invoke the notwithstanding clause to do it: As I have argued, a ban that targets prayer rather than gatherings in parks or on roads would be ultra vires the province and unconstitutional anyway
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Unable to enforce existing laws, Quebec is contemplating curtailing religious freedom even more
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RT @jaynordlinger: One of the reasons I embraced conservatism, years ago, was that conservatives were content for there to be an apolitical….
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New post: the organisers of a Canadian conference are wrong to have invited Adrian Vermeule as their keynote speaker. Link below.
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RT @AustrianEn: Liberalism, taken in its most general sense, is the only true answer to fascism.
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ICYMI: A reading list of recent-ish (since 2014) scholarship on constitutional interpretation in Canada
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A reading list on constitutional interpretation in Canada
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RT @DanNeidle: Just reported: a court judgment case with probably the most intriguing first line in UK judicial history:. (I can't lie to y….
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New post: a compilation of scholarship on constitutional interpretation in Canada published over the last decade or so, for your reading pleasure. Link below! Do let me know if you think I've missed something.
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RT @cjscalia: “You should be in no doubt that, patriotic conservative that I am, I detest the burning of the nation’s flag—and if I were ki….
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RT @AlecStapp: Still think about this every time I hear someone romanticizing the pre-industrial era
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Much of this applies, mutatis mutandis, to the "legal conservative [and libertarian] movement" in the US and its (tiny) Canadian counterpart. Non-leftist lawyers playing footsie with post liberals should understand what they are getting themselves into - and stop.
For anyone wondering why I'm so critical of the Postliberal movement right now, here's a more detailed explanation where I work through my thoughts:. 1. I didn't declare war on Postliberalism. Postliberalism declared war on economics, and specifically free-market economics. If.
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RT @bryan_caplan: Drug laws violate the right to do wrong. Immigration laws violate the right to do *right* - to work hard to give your f….
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See e.g. here, for a discussion of the misconceptions in his book (with Cass Sunstein, no less!) on the rule of law and the administrative state:
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Questionable arguments in Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule’s critique of anti-administrativism
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