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Dispute Resolution, Access To Civil Justice And Legal Education, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Dispute Resolution, Access To Civil Justice And Legal Education, Trevor C. W. Farrow
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This article examines current dispute resolution teaching and research programs in the context of improving access to justice through recent civil justice reform initiatives. Animated by extensive domestic and international literature, online and survey-based research, the article explores the landscape of alternative dispute resolution education (primarily at law schools), comments on the need for continued thinking and reform and acts as a leading resource to assist in the ongoing, collaborative development of dispute resolution initiatives in legal education in Canada and abroad.
Globalizing Approaches To Legal Education And Training: Canada To Japan, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Globalizing Approaches To Legal Education And Training: Canada To Japan, Trevor C. W. Farrow
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Dispute Resolution And Legal Education: A Bibliography, Trevor C. W. Farrow
Dispute Resolution And Legal Education: A Bibliography, Trevor C. W. Farrow
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Madly Off In One Direction: Mcgill’S New Integrated, Poly-Jural, Trans-Systemic Law Program, Harry W. Arthurs
Madly Off In One Direction: Mcgill’S New Integrated, Poly-Jural, Trans-Systemic Law Program, Harry W. Arthurs
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In 1994, the McGill Faculty of Law organized a two-day faculty retreat, seeking to lay the foundations of a new curriculum. This desire was in part a response to the contradictions inherent to the faculty, but also stemmed from a deep-seated preoccupation with ‘polyjurality’, non-state normativity, transnational legal systems, and legal theory—a preoccupation that dates back to its origins, over 150 years ago. The author, while praising McGill's efforts at reinventing itself, laments a certain reserve toward interdisciplinarity. He conjectures that at least some understand the teaching of polyjurality and transsystemic law as a project that is largely concerned with …
A Core Curriculum For The Transnational Legal Education Of Jd And Llb Students: Surveying The Approach Of The International, Comparative And Transnational Law Program At Osgoode Hall Law School, Craig Scott
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My task is simple enough: to approach the question whether there is a core JD or LLB curriculum for transnational lawyers by briefly narrating Osgoode Hall Law School's experiment with the International Comparative and Transnational (ICT) Law Program that began four years ago.' By way of a preface, I hasten to make two points. The first point to note is that Osgoode's ICT Program is, to date, not mandatory for all our LL.B. students but, rather, an optional specialization; currently, about one-quarter of each year's entering class of around 280 students choose to take enter the program by taking the …