University of Wisconsin–Madison

Tag: Canada

Doug Ford’s attacks on judges are an affront to Canadian democracy

Doug Ford has increasingly made judges a political target, treating attacks on them as a routine talking point. At the recent Premiers’ conference, he called judges “weak-kneed” over bail reform, and in the past he has dismissed judicial independence as a “joke,” floated the idea of electing judges, and vowed to appoint only “like-minded” ones. …

Hutchinson (2008), “In the Public Interest’: The Responsibilities and Rights of Government Lawyers”

This article critiques the default assumption that government lawyers share the same ethical duties as private lawyers and proposes a new framework grounded in a democratic understanding of law and justice.