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After Intervenus Interruptus in the Chevron Case

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The Canadian Bar Association Needs to Make Some Changes On October 16,  2014, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) dropped its application to intervene in Chevron v Yaiguaje, an upcoming Supreme Court case, just before the October 17 filing deadline. Chevron is appealing an Ontario Court of Appeal decision allowing a group of Ecuadorian villagers to seek damages from Chevron’s Canadian assets. In...

Looking Back and Beyond: Equality for Women in Law Schools and the Profession

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JIHEE (MARIE) PARK <Staff Writer> More and more women are being admitted to law schools, a trend that is being observed across the country and over the past many decades. A long time ago, it was a remarkable struggle to be able to attend law school as a woman, but today the statistics show that women trump men in this calling, at least in number. Of the entering class of 2012 of the first...

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