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Faith Dehghan – The Cost of Wearing Green and Gold
By Faith Dehghan I’ve never truly understood the undying passion sports fans feel for their team until I attended a Springboks game. Rugby...
August 22, 2025
Darius Jamal – From Coffee Cherries to Courtrooms in Rural Kenya
For the past two months, I’ve been living in Kianyaga, a small rural town on the slopes of Mount Kenya. Known for producing...
August 20, 2025
Annica Dickens — Mental Borders: How Legal Fictions Limit Our Imagination
By Annica Dickens I write about rivers I have not yet visited—not for lack of desire or feasibility, but because legal fictions hold...
July 18, 2025
Dignity in the Dining Room: A Right or Luxury?
By Brett Mazliach Early Lessons from my Internship I never imagined I’d say this: I just ate arctic char soup with a Canadian...
July 15, 2025
Ricardo Lamour – What Sits with Me: Reflections on Writing my First Gladue Report
By Ricardo Lamour For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn. These were the words spoken three quarters into my first meeting with my supervisor at...
July 10, 2025
Patricia Betts – From the Office to the Trails
By Patricia Betts - Before I started this internship in May 2025, I had never been west of Strathroy, Ontario, a small town...
July 10, 2025
Ronan van Rooij – A love letter to Gambian cuisine
View from the beach in Brufut By Ronan van Rooij When one arrives in the Gambia one is met with profound hospitality and...
June 25, 2025
Mitch Thompson – Building into my role at the Métis Nation – Saskatchewan
By Mitch T J'écris ce blog pour décrire mes premières impressions du Saskatoon et mon introduction au travail de Métis Nation - Saskatchewan...
May 28, 2025
Ximena Ramírez Villanueva – Transitional Justice, Community Transformation, and Personal Reflections from Comuna 13
By Ximena Ramírez Villanueva Rediscovering Comuna 13 Through New Perspectives During the last two weeks of my internship with Avocats Sans Frontières, I...
September 4, 2024
Isabela Restrepo – What la Pura Vida Taught me about Law and Life
By Isabela Restrepo Warning: At the risk of sounding cliché, this is yet another story about growing up as a first-generation immigrant in...
September 3, 2024
Ximena Ramírez Villanueva – Building Bridges: Resilience and Reconciliation in Colombia’s Conflict Landscape
By Ximena Ramírez Villanueva I arrived in Bogotá for my internship with Avocats Sans Frontières filled with anticipation. I was especially eager to...
September 1, 2024
Lucia Quintero Lossada – The Importance of Knowing what You do not Know
Six weeks ago, I arrived in Lima, Peru, innocently thinking that my cultural heritage had prepared me for what was to come. This...
August 4, 2024
