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Reaction To The Arthurs Report, Innis Christie, Janice Dicken Mcginnis, David T. Fraser Jan 1985

Reaction To The Arthurs Report, Innis Christie, Janice Dicken Mcginnis, David T. Fraser

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It is now more than two years since the publication of Law and Learning: The Report of The Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, known to all legal academics as "the Arthurs Report". In that time the Canadian Bar Review has published one commentary on the Report and there have been a few comments in academic law journals, but the reaction in print is not commensurate with the importance of the Report or the interest in it among teachers and scholars of law in Canada generally and at …


The Law School Curriculum, Innis Christie May 1976

The Law School Curriculum, Innis Christie

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When I graduated from the Dalhousie Law School in 1962 there were 40 people in my class, about 100 students in the School altogether, and a full-time faculty of eight. Now there is a full-time faculty of 36, the first year class this year totalled 158 and the student population is well over 400. With this increase, the Dalhousie Law School, has, more or less, stayed in step with other law schools across the country. I start with numbers because numbers are important in an educational institution. With four times as many students and four times as many faculty members, …