John Reilly, Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community

Abstract

Judge John Reilly‟s new book, Bad Medicine, is not by conventional standards an academic monograph. In fact, Reilly makes no pretence towards his book being a scholarly one, and this is possibly one of its greatest strengths. He has a message to deliver, not just for academics and policy makers, but for Canada and possibly the world at large. He disavows the often mysterious and arcane jargon that academia insists must be correct in order to make his message accessible to anyone who may venture to read it, from the most educated to the least educated.