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Dean Christie's Letter, Innis Christie Oct 1990

Dean Christie's Letter, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

What a year! For one thing, it was the first year in the new Sir James Dunn Law Library and the refurbished Weldon Law Building. It seemed to me that the academic year had hardly gotten under way when we were into official opening ceremonies. The opening in the atrium, following the fall convocation on Saturday, October 21, was a fine ceremony, culminating in the unveiling of a plaque by the premier of Nova Scotia, Dal law alumnus The Honourable John M. Buchannan '58, and Mr. Donald Sobey, chairman of the capital campaign which paid for the building.


Research In A Changing World Of Law And Technology, Morris L. Cohen May 1990

Research In A Changing World Of Law And Technology, Morris L. Cohen

Dalhousie Law Journal

As a long-time friend and admirer of legal education at Dalhousie, it is an honor and a pleasure for me to offer the Read lecture this year. It is particularly warming to have Mrs. Read and the next two generations of Reads here today, since Dean Read was the strongest proponent of the law library's development during his deanship here. One of the designated topics for these lectures has been legal education. With the dedication of the addition to the Weldon Building housing the restored Sir James Dunn Law Library, and the designation of a librarian, for the first time, …


Dean Christie's Letter, Innis Christie Oct 1989

Dean Christie's Letter, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

The new Sir James Dunn Law Library is open! The Official Opening, capping an exciting week of Law School "happenings", will be on October 21, 1989, but the real "Opening" occurred in mid-May. Summer student maintenance employees had worked night and day from the end of exams moving books from their temporary storage in the Killam Library to the new Law Library, to the accomplishment of ubiquitous rock music blaring from their radio. On the morning of Monday, May 15, Chief Law Librarian, Professor Christian Wiktor, solemnly intruded on them and firmly turned the radio off, with the announcement: "This …