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Dalhousie Law Journal

Journal

1983

Common Law

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The Common Law In The Twentieth Century, A. J. Stone Q.C. Oct 1983

The Common Law In The Twentieth Century, A. J. Stone Q.C.

Dalhousie Law Journal

Comparing the judicial with the legislative approach to law-making is the stuff of academic debate. I do not propose to enter upon that debate in this short discussion, except to concede that each approach has its strengths, each its weaknesses, and each its separate role. My purpose is, rather, to examine the making of law by the judiciary as it illustrates the inherent capacity of the common law for change and for growth in a dynamic society. This century has seen several extraordinary developments of the common law in Canada, England, and the United States, the leading example of which …


Teaching The Common Law In The French Language, Michel Bastarache Apr 1983

Teaching The Common Law In The French Language, Michel Bastarache

Dalhousie Law Journal

There are many difficulties associated with the setting up of a new law school; these difficulties were compounded at the Universit6 de Moncton with considerations relative to the language of instruction, the particularities of the clientele, it being relatively small and unconcentrated geographically, the lack of a legal tradition in French language communities outside of Quebec. My purpose here is not to analyse in a general way the experience of the last four years at the Universit6 de Moncton, but to consider only one aspect of this experience, the one which is the most often put to me in the …