The YunusovQuestion
TorontoSince June 202099 conversationsLatest: 26 October 2026
Pulat Yunusov interviews lawyers and judges about their life, work, and cases.
The latest · No. 99 · Season 6, episode 7
Noel Semple
on the Civil Rules Review, judicial independence, and civil jury trials
Noel Semple is an associate professor at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, where he teaches civil procedure and legal ethics.
Before that
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- 95Sujit Choudhry57:48Jul 2025Charter litigation, polarization, and notwithstanding clauseTranscript
- 94Kannon Shanmugam45:05Jun 2025SCOTUS, DOJ, Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, and changing meanings of wordsTranscript
- 93Walied Soliman48:00Jan 2025Global law firms, corporate lawyers, special situations, and the Middle EastTranscript
- 92Annamaria Enenajor50:28Dec 2024Intelligence, the ideals of criminal law practice, and fighting crimeTranscript
- 91Ken McEwan, K.C.39:44Oct 2024The Rogers case, litigating on the West coast, and Ontario's influence on BCTranscript
- 90Justice Mew55:42Sep 2024Being from England, hearing civil and criminal cases, limitation periods, and emotionTranscript
- 89Justin Safayeni57:09Jul 2024Stockwoods, admin law, defending journalists, and growth as a litigatorTranscript
99conversations
12with judges
78hours of talk
6seasons
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A book of lessons from the guests
99 conversations with lawyers and judges hold a great deal of hard-won advice. Pulat is gathering it into a book. Readers can help: mark the passages in the transcripts that stay with you.