I have a grant to research “public legal education,” or “PLE,” in Canada. A lot of people have asked me just exactly what “PLE” is and just exactly what kind of research I’m doing of it. These same people are also interested to know what in the hell I’m going to do after I […]

The other day I wrote about public/community legal education and the administrative errands I was running all last week. One thing that I didn’t get to was signs. From the first day that I entered Canada for my fellowship year, travelling across southeastern British Columbia and then slowly north through the provincial parks along […]

Yesterday afternoon I went to watch the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which is in a short session right now primarily to consider a spending bill. But yesterday afternoon was the one afternoon during this short session that private members’ bills would be considered, and Progressive Conservative MLA Ted Morton endeavored to bring up a […]

A week’s worth of relocation errands has sapped my energy a lot more than I could have expected. Some of these have involved a government agency and waiting in line, something that I would not have enjoyed one bit four years ago. But now that I’ve gone through law school, and especially now that I’m […]

I’m not inclined to blog. I am, for one thing, perplexed by the number of private-life details that folks reveal in their blogs and worried that I’ll end up doing the same thing. I remain concerned, but I’m realizing that a blog will be an efficient, although impersonal, way of updating family, friends, […]