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American Influences, Canadian Realities : How "American" Is Canadian Legal Education?, Philip Girard
American Influences, Canadian Realities : How "American" Is Canadian Legal Education?, Philip Girard
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Teaching Civil Obligations (Or What I Learned About Law, Legal Thinking And Teaching), Allan C. Hutchinson
Teaching Civil Obligations (Or What I Learned About Law, Legal Thinking And Teaching), Allan C. Hutchinson
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In most of my decades-long teaching and professorial career, I primarily taught Torts, but never Contracts. However, last year, I agreed to teach jointly a postgraduate class of 35 students on “Civil Obligations.” It was a decision that conformed to one of the more unsettling tropes of my life— “act in haste, repent at leisure.” My role in this arrangement was, after a general opening about the nature of civil obligations and the interface of Contract and Tort, to assume responsibility for the Contracts component of the course. This presented itself as a considerable task, but I thought that it …