Leonid Sirota @DoubleAspect
Legal academic, Associate Professor @UniRDG_Law. Mostly public law, dabble in jurisprudence; blogger, also mostly on (Canadian) public law. doubleaspect.blog Reading, England Joined November 2012-
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ICYMI: Some thoughts on the law of incitement to violence, and why in real life it should be narrower than might be ideal in the abstract. doubleaspect.blog/2025/09/04/exc…
We are undoubtedly living in an age of lies, which is a difficult environment to navigate both as an individual and as a citizen of a democratic polity
We are undoubtedly living in an age of lies, which is a difficult environment to navigate both as an individual and as a citizen of a democratic polity
New post: insisting that your preferred positions aren't up for debate is either lazy bullying or a sign that you're uninterested in persuading your fellow citizens. doubleaspect.blog/2025/09/03/the…
The courts just took a step to save the economy, the rule of law — and the very foundation of property rights. This thanks in part to Ilya Somin, a principled liberal whose work just spared Americans trillions in realized and unrealized taxes. He may be the most consequential…
Quebec will ban street prayer—and invoke the notwithstanding clause to do it: lapresse.ca/actualites/pol…. As I have argued, a ban that targets prayer rather than gatherings in parks or on roads would be ultra vires the province and unconstitutional anyway doubleaspect.blog/2024/12/09/the….
One of the reasons I embraced conservatism, years ago, was that conservatives were content for there to be an apolitical sphere. Indeed, they insisted on it! The Left, by contrast, politicized everything under the sun. “The personal is the political” and all that. I thought of…
.@DoubleAspect and I have written about this corporatelawacademic.wordpress.com/2021/10/07/the…
Liberalism, taken in its most general sense, is the only true answer to fascism.
Liberalism, taken in its most general sense, is the only true answer to fascism.
ICYMI: A reading list of recent-ish (since 2014) scholarship on constitutional interpretation in Canada doubleaspect.blog/2025/08/26/rea…
Just reported: a court judgment case with probably the most intriguing first line in UK judicial history: (I can't lie to you; it gets more boring very quickly. But then it gets intriguing again, I promise.)

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