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A handwritten letter from an incarcerated man got Benjamin Perrin rethinking Canada’s criminal justice system. Perrin, a professor in UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law and former advisor to the Harper government, found the man’s accounts deeply disturbing. They prompted him to rethink the legal system he had worked in, researched and taught about his entire professional life. In …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan has plunged the country into nine months of unrest and exposed bitter divisions within Israeli society. On Tuesday, the country’s gaze shifted from the streets to the courtroom, where Supreme Court judges began to deliberate over the very laws meant to curtail their power. Israel’s High Court is hearing …