Macfarlane on CBC Radio

Professor Julie Macfarlane is helping CBC Radio listeners better understand complex legal issues by discussing them in everyday language with Windsor Morning's affable host, Tony Doucette. Macfarlane explains that she pitched the idea for a series of interviews to help make inaccessible legal issues more comprehensible by offering listeners sufficient information (but not too much!) to enable them to develop informed opinions on current issues.

"My focus for the program is on public interest issues - that is, issues that I believe that everyone should have a chance to form an opinion on and not think 'that all sounds like legal gobbledygook, I’m not interested'," says Macfarlane. She says the next step is to develop a website spin off that will allow people to ask questions, get more information and get a discussion going. 

CBC is calling the series 'Legally Speaking.' Here are links to the first interviews:

Interview 1 explores the controversial citizenship act C-24. Who does it apply to?

Interview 2 looks at Bill C-51. How does it really affect you and me?

Interview 3:  Justin Trudeau made a promise during the election campaign to legalize marijuana, but what does that really mean?

 

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