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Volume 22, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Colin Ground, Elizabeth Kanyikwa, Nicholas Lenco, Derrick White

Volume 22, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Colin Ground, Elizabeth Kanyikwa, Nicholas Lenco, Derrick White

Volume 21, No. 7

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Colin Ground, Elizabeth Kanyikwa, Nicholas Lenco, Derrick White

An Analysis Of Gender In Admission To The Canadian Common Law Schools From 1985-86 To 1994-95, Brian M. Mazer

Dalhousie Law Journal

Using statistical data covering a ten year period, this study examines the issue of gender representation in admissions to first year law study at common law schools in Canada. After addressing three identifiable steps in the admission process-applications, offers and registration-the author concludes that while there has been progress and the gap has narrowed, the problem of gender inequality persists.

A Case For Compulsory Legal Ethics Education In Canadian Law Schools, Jocelyn Downie

Dalhousie Law Journal

The author presents principled arguments, consequentialist arguments, arguments by analogy and arguments by authority in support of her conclusion that Canadian law schools should have compulsory legal ethics education. Among other things, she argues that legal ethics education is an imperfect but essential way to meet the obligations that arise from the public trust placed in the legal profession. She also explores a number of benefits that can accrue to students, law schools, the legal profession and society in general when ethics is a compulsory component of legal education.

Volume 20, No. 6

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Doug Downey

Volume 20, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Doug Downey

Volume 22, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Colin Ground, Elizabeth Kanyikwa, Nicholas Lenco, Derrick White

Volume 20, No. 4

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Volume 20, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Volume 20, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Volume 20, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Lynn Burshtein, Doug Downey, David Swayze

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Nicholas Sapp

Teacher Power In The Law School Classroom, Julie Macfarlane

Dalhousie Law Journal

Law teachers make choices over syllabus material, teaching methods and assessment formats, and thus inevitably exercise some control over what and how students learn. The actualpowerof each individual law professor will depend on the context of her particular classroom and her perceived credibility, generally defined by the university as the demonstration of a particular (rationalist) model of subject expertise. The intrinsic hierarchies and highly competitive culture of law school sustain this traditional model of knowledge along with its congruent image of the professor as autonomous, powerful and the focus of the classroom. Feminist law teachers and others who wish to …

Volume 19, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Book Review Of Contracts: Cases And Commentaries, Richard F. Devlin Frsc

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The fifth edition of Boyle and Percy, Contracts: Cases and Commentaries manifests this tension between the ideas market and the products market. When one contrasts this edition to the first there is a significant, though by no means fundamental, shift in emphasis. The ideas dimension has taken on a larger role, but mostly in the form of a grafting onto the conventional structure rather than through conceptual reorientation. The following brief comments attempt to assess the benefits and costs of this incrementalist strategy in the spirit of what bell hooks and Cornel West have described as "critical affirmation".

Interview With Innis Christie In Dalhousie Law School: An Oral History, Ronald St. John Macdonald

Innis Christie Collection

Innis M. Christie

Born: Amherst, Nova Scotia, 8 November 1937

Legal Education: Dalhousie, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School

Areas of specialization: Labour Law, Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics, Administrative Law

Service on the full-time faculty: 1971-

Interview: Monday, 5 December 1988, Thursday, 15 December 1988, Thursday, 21 December 1988

Volume 19, No. 4

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 19, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 19, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 19, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Douglas A. Isbister, Linda E. Klaamas, Kenneth P. Serné

Photography: David Swayze

Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 18, No. 5

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Normative, And Somewhere To Go? Reflections On Professional Responsibility, Richard F. Devlin Frsc

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

In this article the author offers some reflections on professional responsibility. He straddles the optimist and pessimist perspectives espousing ''pessoptimism" as a more adequate position than either extreme. The author begins by deconstructing the title of the conference in which the paper was delivered: "A New Look: A National Conference on the Legal Profession and Ethics," which took place in Calgary, in June 1994. Pursuing a middle path between the optimistic and pessimistic approaches to professional responsibility, the author outlines the parameters of his ethical vision which provides some directions for legal practice. There are three elements to his restructured …

Some Thoughts On A More Humanist And Equitable Legal Education, A. Wayne Mackay

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

This article starts with the premise that all teaching is a communication of values between student and teacher. An important challenge in confronting law is making it more inclusive and equitable. A critical step in this process is first recognizing one's own biases. Only then will genuine dialogue about the inherent biases in the legal profession and in law schools be possible. Making law schools more inclusive entails not only superficial changes, but an examination of what is taught, how it is taught and how students are evaluated.

Volume 18, No. 4

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Volume 18, No. 3

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Editorial Assistant: Matt Bernier

Volume 18, No. 2

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen, Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Editorial Assistant: Matt Bernier

Volume 18, No. 1

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Scott Rollwagen; Garth Stevens, Don Urquhart

Associate Production Editor: Kevin Kimmis

Photography: Jamie Stuart

Editorial Assistant: Matt Bernier

Re University Of Saskatchewan Faculty Association And University Of Saskatchewan, Innis Christie, Nancy Hopkins, Suzie Scott

Innis Christie Collection

This is the determination of an Arbitration Committee established to hear and determine whether or not the grounds for the President's recommendation for the dismissal of Lucinda Vandervort, a tenured Associate Professor, are established and, if established, whether or not they constitute good and sufficient cause for dismissal. The Committee has already issued an interim decision that, even if established, the grounds for the President's recommendation for dismissal do not constitute good and sufficient cause for dismissal and Professor Vandervort has been fully reinstated pending this determination. We advised the parties of our conclusion to that effect after the University …

Playing The Game, Allan C. Hutchinson

Dalhousie Law Journal

Soccer is my game. It has been part of my life and, therefore, a part of me since before I can remember. Much of my early years was spent kicking a ball around in one setting or another. Sleeping or waking, I was never far from a soccer ball. On my own against a wall or with a couple of likeminded friends, I took the part of legendary favourites and played out some of soccer's great games. The stuff of boyhood fantasizing, some of my best memories can still be traced back to my grandfather's back yard or the local …

Volume 17, No. 6

The Weldon Times

A student-run newspaper published at the School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Editors: Jolaine Antonio, Mike Christie, Chris Spiteri