This week Julie talks to Megan Campbell about coping with Crohn’s disease in law school. Megan is a 2nd year student at Windsor Law, and one of NSRLP’s wonderful research assistants; she happens to also be dealing with an often difficult-to-manage autoimmune disease. Julie and Megan discuss the complications of navigating a demanding academic program and a chronic illness at the same time, and Megan has some fantastic advice to others in similar situations.

In other news: Ulster University in Northern Ireland has published a study that comes to similar conclusions as NSRLP’s research on self-represented litigants; University of Calgary Law Faculty has produced a blog post warning about the dangers of conflating self-represented and vexatious litigants; and NSRLP has recently released our massively updated directory of National and Provincial Resources for SRLs, listing helpful organizations and websites in every province and territory. (Megan Campbell herself spent many hours on this project – thanks Megan!)

Related:

Read Megan’s bio on the NSRLP team page

Crohn’s and Colitis Canada website

Other News:

Litigants in person in Northern Ireland (Ulster University)

“People forced to represent themselves in court ‘at risk of failing to get a fair trial'” (The Irish News)

“The Increasing Risk of Conflating Self-Represented and Vexatious Litigants” (University of Calgary Law Faculty blog)

NSRLP releases updated National and Provincial Resources for SRLs

Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Ali Tejani; promotion by Moya McAlister and Ali Tejani.

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