Robson Crim Legal Blog

I believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. It was remarkably brave for her to come forward. She revealed important truths about gender inequalities that persist.

Having said that, I also believe it is crucial that a missing perspective needs to be brought to bear on the contr...

This week, a Canadian criminal court rendered our country’s first sentences in relation to polygamy convictions in more than a century.[i] A few weeks earlier, a Canadian family court legally recognized three unmarried adults in a polyamorous relationship as legal pare...

#JusticeforTinaFontaine  #Indigenous    #JusticeforColtenBoushie

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”
-Atticus Finch [1] 

Every year, I teach criminal law to legal studies students: undergrads who, in large pa...

In 2017, when the #MeToo movement was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Tarana Burke, credited by Time for creating the movement, said “Now the work really begins.” And, as retiring Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Justice MacLachlin told the CBC in an int...

On October 18, Robson Crim launched the new Manitoba Law Journal special issue on Criminal Law. As part of that event we invited Professor Rebecca Bromwich to speak about the Ashley Smith affair ten years after the tragedy.

Professor Bromwich undertakes a critical disco...