The Pardy School of Law

How the law works, and how it doesn’t.

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A matter of accommodation

Are academic accommodations unjust? The argument continues anew in this commentary on why giving some students more help than others undermines a key good offered by universities.

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Canada’s Cold War

In 1972, Team Canada was fighting for our way of life against an adversary who sought to tear it down. That foe is back and, this time, our team has switched sides.

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WHO’s on first

The game of Global Public Health is not played on a baseball diamond. But the game is real, and so are the players. Who made the team, who’s out, who’s up to bat, and what’s the goal? Bruce Pardy breaks it down.

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We approach state singularity

We are approaching the moment when state and society become indistinguishable, and legal norms and expectations irrelevant. How do we escape?

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock