Lists

Here are some of the things I like and that I tend to rec­om­mend to peo­ple.

Podcasts

• Borderlines (Canadian im­mi­gra­tion law and pol­i­cy)
• Cambie Report (Vancouver pol­i­tics)
• The Docket (Canadian law, of­ten crim­i­nal law)
• Electon Profit Makers (I will not try to de­scribe this work of art)
• In All Fairness (Canadian le­gal pod­cast fo­cus­ing on the ju­di­cia­ry, pub­lic law, and the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice)
• Intrepid (Canadian na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty law and pol­i­cy)
• Ipse Dixit (Legal schol­ar­ship; in­ter­views with au­thors about their writ­ing)
• Judge John Hodgman (Humanism, com­e­dy, whether a hot dog is a sand­wich)
• Just Between Us (Alison Raskin and Gaby Dunn chat, con­duct in­ter­views, and an­swer ques­tions)
• Law Bytes (Michael Geist and guests on Canadian tech­nol­o­gy law)
• The Lawfare Podcast (US na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty law and pol­i­cy)
• Media Indigena (Indigenous is­sues in Canada)
• On the Media (American week­ly ra­dio show from WNYC, cov­er­ing any­thing touch­ing jour­nal­ism, tech, and ex­pres­sion)
• Oral Argument (Legal the­o­ry, writ­ing, ju­rispru­dence, etc.)
• Politicoast (BC and Canadian pol­i­tics)
• Strict Scrutiny (US Supreme Court)
• The Trauma-Informed Lawyer (“a do-no-fur­ther-harm, re­la­tion­al ap­proach to the prac­tice of law”; “ed­u­ca­tion about trau­ma, vic­ar­i­ous trau­ma and trau­ma-in­formed law­yer­ing”)

New music

Where I like to find new mu­sic.

• BBC Sounds
• NTS Radio
• PyroRadio
• RinseFM

Books

Find me on Goodreads.

Some supplementary material for law school

Here are some sources I’ve found in­ter­est­ing and help­ful through­out law school.

• Craig Forcese, “Public Law and Legislation” (presents the con­sti­tu­tion­al prin­ci­ples un­der­ly­ing pub­lic pow­er in Canada, sources of le­git­i­ma­cy and ac­count­abil­i­ty, and the process of cre­at­ing leg­is­la­tion)
• Craig Forcese, “Administrative Law” (how courts re­view ex­ec­u­tive acts; in­cludes up­dates from Vavilov)
• The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, “Charter: A Course” (pod­cast about Canadian Constitutional Law & Litigation)
• Intrepid pod­cast’s “Muskoka Chair Chats” episodes 126, 127, 128, 129, 134 (an ex­plain­er se­ries on the Charter)
• John Borrows, “Law 340” (YouTube se­ries on Canada’s Aboriginal law, with some dis­cus­sion about Indigenous law as well)
• Supreme Advocacy’s “SCC Weekly” and “Student Extras” email lists

Writing resources

Just some things that have influenced how I com­mu­ni­cate.

• Bryan A. Garner, Garner’s Modern English Usage, 4th ed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
• Louise Rosenblatt, Literature as Exploration, 5th ed (New York: MLA, 1995).
• Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner, Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).
• Edward Tufte, Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd ed, (Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001).
• Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada (Winnipeg: Highwater Press, 2016).