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Legal Education In Canadian Schools?, Hugh M. Kindred

Dalhousie Law Journal

Law courses have exploded across school programmes in recent years. From one end of Canada to the other, thousands of students and hundreds of school teachers are now studying law. Just what they are learning is uncertain for, apart from a head count of those present in the classroom, there is little curricular enquiry and even less organisation. The effort appears to be an unled mass movement rather than a planned educational development. And its size is still growing. The origins of this explosion of legal interest explain its unorganised character. The pressure for legal education has come from the …