Leonid Sirota

@doubleaspect.blog

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Legal academic; mostly Canadian and comparative public law. Associate Professor @unirdg-law.bsky.social; Senior Fellow, Macdonald Laurier Institute; blogger, doubleaspect.blog

"On this question of immigration turns, in my opinion, the whole future success of this great scheme which we are now discussing. Why, sir, there is hardly a political or financial or social problem suggested by this union that ..."

A chronic complaint:
Aide-de-Camp: "The English force, so please you"
Kaiser: "Take thy face fence... I am sick at Heart."
(Macbeth, Act V, sc 3)

"We can't tolerate situations where executives tell judges what they should do or accuse them of terrible things if they don't do it."

Article abstract: "Cybersapce, as a normative order, can be usefully understood as having a constitution, and debates about its regulation as constitutional debates. As with more familiar constitutions, these debates concern the procedures through which the rules making up the normative order of cyberspace are made and changed, the participants in these procedures, the limits on the scope and substance of these rules, and the values which these rules serve to realize. The lessons of “real life” constitutionalism, notably about the limits of constitutional design and the importance of structural protections for liberty are thus applicable in cyberspace."