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Educating Men And Women For Service Through Law: Osgoode Hall Law School 1963-1988, Mary Jane Mossman
Educating Men And Women For Service Through Law: Osgoode Hall Law School 1963-1988, Mary Jane Mossman
Dalhousie Law Journal
My work... has assumed the shape of ... a spiral curriculum, circling around the same issues, though trying to keep them open-ended. This statement was penned by Northrop Frye in Spiritus Mundi in the context of reflections about creativity and literary criticism, but it aptly describes as well the intellectual ferment of writing about legal education in Canada during the past few decades. Indeed, Frye's suggestion that the above quotation "may be only a rationalization for not having budged an inch in eighteen years ' may similarly offer an important clue about the legal education debate in Canada and the …
The Teaching Of The Law Of Thailand, Ted L. Mcdorman
The Teaching Of The Law Of Thailand, Ted L. Mcdorman
Dalhousie Law Journal
Within the last few years Canada has begun to realize that it is a Pacific Rim country with substantial connections and interests in Asia. As part of this awakening Canadian interest in Asian affairs the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria decided to develop and offer a course entitled "Legal Issues in Southeast Asia", with the hope that such a course would provide a forum for a systematic, informed comparison of the legal systems of Asia.
Dean Christie's Letter, Innis Christie
Dean Christie's Letter, Innis Christie
Innis Christie Collection
The move back into the Weldon Law Building has been completed, except for the Law Library, which will continue to be house in the University's Killam Library until the spring of 1989. It has been a great boost to morale to have everybody under the same roof again.
Teaching Professional Responsibility In Law School, Alvin Esau
Teaching Professional Responsibility In Law School, Alvin Esau
Dalhousie Law Journal
After eight years of teaching a three-credit course on The Legal Profession and Professional Responsibility to second- and third-year law students, I am left with a sense of great dissatisfaction with the whole enterprise. So deep is my dissatisfaction that I am questioning whether to continue or move into a different course instead. This paper is an opportunity to take stock of my experience and attempt to map out the causes of my dissatisfaction, and to seek some vision, if possible, of what the course should be about, how to teach it, and why I should bother. To give the …
The Teaching Of Legislation In Canadian Law Faculties, W Maclauchlan, T G. Ison, H N. Janisch, P A. Coté
The Teaching Of Legislation In Canadian Law Faculties, W Maclauchlan, T G. Ison, H N. Janisch, P A. Coté
Dalhousie Law Journal
Wade MacLauchlan: On behalf of Pierre Issalys, who serves as co- President of the Administrative Law Section of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, and myself, I would like to welcome you to our annual section meeting. The subject which has been adopted for today's meeting is: "The Teaching of Legislation in Canadian Law Faculties". We have the good fortune to have as panelists three of the most experienced and vital teachers of Administrative Law in the country. Professors Terry Ison of Osgoode Hall Law School, Hudson Janisch of the University of Toronto and Pierre-Andr6 Cot6 of l'Universit6 de Montr6al …
Les Sciences Jurisdiques À L'Université Du Québec À Montréal: Fifteen Years Later, Robert D. Bureau, Carol Jobin
Les Sciences Jurisdiques À L'Université Du Québec À Montréal: Fifteen Years Later, Robert D. Bureau, Carol Jobin
Dalhousie Law Journal
The experiment of the Law Department as a new approach to legal education has been going on now for 15 years. It has directly involved more than 1,500 people as students, instructors (professors and sessional lecturers) and support staff (administrative and library personnel, etc.). This experiment has a unique identity, indeed a distinctive image, which has given rise to a certain amount of controversy in the Quebec legal milieu. Especially since the debates stemming from the publication of the Law and Learning Report, it seems that the experiment has also aroused a certain amount of curiosity in the Canadian legal …
International Law And The Grotian Heritage, L C. Green
International Law And The Grotian Heritage, L C. Green
Dalhousie Law Journal
Recent emphasis on codification of this or that aspect of international law has encouraged a number of writers to re-examine the "classics" with a view to ascertaining the extent to which we have moved from the 17th and 18th centuries and how far the views of the "teachers" are still relevant or may even today be regarded as lexferenda. Coincident with the fourth centenary of the birth of Grotius, the Interuniversitair Instituut voor International Recht T.M.C. Asser Instituut in cooperation with the Grotiana Foundation organized a commemorative colloquium in the Peace Palace and the Academy of International Law at the …
Quebec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes And Traditional Ambiguities, J Ec Brierley
Quebec Legal Education Since 1945: Cultural Paradoxes And Traditional Ambiguities, J Ec Brierley
Dalhousie Law Journal
Some remarkable things have occurred in Quebec legal education over the last forty years. All phases of the educational process have been the object of an official government enquiry (as a consequence of widespread student discontent that led to street demonstrations); a major sociological and futuristic study of the profession and of university studies has attempted to stimulate a major shift in the intellectual orientations of legal education to ready us for the year 2000; the loss by the Quebec legal professions of lawyers and notaries of substantial power to the profit of a government agency regulating all professions in …
La Faculté De Droit De L'Universite De Sherbrooke, Jean-Marie Lavoie
La Faculté De Droit De L'Universite De Sherbrooke, Jean-Marie Lavoie
Dalhousie Law Journal
httLa Faculte de droit de l'Universite de Sherbrooke c~lbrait en 1984 le trenti&me anniversaire de sa fondation. L'occasion est appropriee pour dresser un portrait de 1'&volution de notre institution et degager, si possible, les perspectives de son avenir.
University Of Ottawa, Faculty Of Law-Common Law Section: The Past Ten Years, H. A. Hubbard
University Of Ottawa, Faculty Of Law-Common Law Section: The Past Ten Years, H. A. Hubbard
Dalhousie Law Journal
The character of the Common Law Section of our Faculty of Law has changed dramatically in the years since our move into our present quarters in Fauteux Hall in the Fall of 1973. In order to appreciate fully the scope of these changes, it is necessary to contrast the development of our school over the past decade with the situation that preceeded it. When the University of Ottawa opened its Faculty of Law in 1953, it renewed an undertaking begun nearly seventy years before. In 1887, a law school was established at the University of Ottawa and its first Dean, …
The University Of Alberta Faculty Of Law, Frank D. Jones
The University Of Alberta Faculty Of Law, Frank D. Jones
Dalhousie Law Journal
The University of Alberta was founded in 1908, three years after the Province of Alberta was created from the Northwest Territories. From the beginning the University has played a pivotal role in the life of the province. As the first and only university in the province it educated the business and professional class in the new society. Few young residents of the province ventured elsewhere to obtain a university education, and if they did, they obtained their first degree at the University of Alberta. The central importance of the Edmonton campus continued until the University of Calgary was established in …
Law As A Social Science, R. Lynn Campbell
Law As A Social Science, R. Lynn Campbell
Dalhousie Law Journal
Law is offered as an undergraduate social science discipline at Carleton University. Students may take programmes leading to both Major and Honours B.A. degrees in law or may also undertake the study of law in a combined Major or Honours programme in conjunction with another discipline. Successful completion of any programme does not qualify the graduate for admission to any bar admission programme nor is any credit given towards a law degree for courses taken at Carleton.' The purpose of the programme is to promote an awareness of the place of rules respecting human conduct in political, social and economic …
Legal Education At Calgary: Blending Progress And Tradition, John P. S. Mclaren
Legal Education At Calgary: Blending Progress And Tradition, John P. S. Mclaren
Dalhousie Law Journal
The gestation period of the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary was a long one. After a short lived attempt to operate the Calgary College of Law in 1912-14, the southern Alberta city had to await the founding of the University of Calgary in 1966 before the setting up of a law school would emerge again as a serious possibility.' In 1969, after positive recommendations from both the Law Society of Alberta and the Calgary Bar Association that a law school be established at the new university, the latter under the leadership of President Fred Carruthers formed a sub-committee of …
Reaction To The Arthurs Report, Innis Christie, Janice Dicken Mcginnis, David T. Fraser
Reaction To The Arthurs Report, Innis Christie, Janice Dicken Mcginnis, David T. Fraser
Innis Christie Collection
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 …
La Faculte De Droit De I'Universite De Montreal - Histoire Recente, Roger Comtois
La Faculte De Droit De I'Universite De Montreal - Histoire Recente, Roger Comtois
Dalhousie Law Journal
La Facult6 de Droit de l'Universit6 de Montreal a f~t6 son centenaire en 1978. Notre collgue, le Professeur Jean H6tu a publi, 'a cette occasion, un Album-souvenir. L'auteur a fait une magnifique synth~se de l'histoire de la Facult6. 11 a fait la chronique quotidienne de l'enseignement du droit ' I'Universit6 de Montreal depuis l'inauguration officielle de la succursale de I'Universit6 Laval ia Montr6al, le 6 janvier 1878. Le premier octobre de la mbme annie marquait le d6but officiel des cours de la Facult6 de droit au Cabinet de Lecture paroissial, i l'angle des rues Notre-Dame et Saint-Franqois-Xavier. Dans la pr6face …
The University Of Manitoba Faculty Of Law 1966-1984, Clifford H. C. Edwards, Jack R. London
The University Of Manitoba Faculty Of Law 1966-1984, Clifford H. C. Edwards, Jack R. London
Dalhousie Law Journal
From its inception in 1914, the Manitoba Law School had been the joint responsibility of the University of Manitoba and The Law Society of Manitoba. Its four year programme was intended to combine both academic and practical training so that on its completion the graduating student obtained not only his Bachelor of Laws Degree but also his call to the Bar of Manitoba. By the early sixties, however, with the burgeoning of legal education in universities across the country, it became clear that an overhaul of the system was necessary in Manitoba. If legal education was to meet the demands …
Teaching Law Ethically: Is It Possible?, Mary Jewell
Teaching Law Ethically: Is It Possible?, Mary Jewell
Dalhousie Law Journal
In the past few years the public has been deluged with a constant barrage of unfavourable articles, newsreels, television shows, movies, books, and commentaries about lawyers. This constantly increasing quantity is infinitesimal in size when compared to the vast array of material written by legal educators in the last thirty years. If it can be accepted that the popular press represents to some extent the voice of the people, it may be suggested that society is trying to say something about its lawyers and the role they play in society. The message is clear and unequivocal: lawyers are not nice …
Chinese Legal Education: A First-Hand Account By A Canadian Law Student, Bing Ho
Chinese Legal Education: A First-Hand Account By A Canadian Law Student, Bing Ho
Dalhousie Law Journal
In an article published in China's leading law journal,1 Professor Chen Shouyi, the Dean of the Department of Law at Peking University reviewed the last three decades of Chinese legal education. Tentative but steady progress was made after the founding of the Republic in 1949. During the anti-rightist campaign begun in 1957, however, legal institutions came under harsh official attack. Following that, Chinese legal education suffered setback after setback. In the period between 1959 and 1965, it was "on a continuously downward slope". 2 During this time, the Ministry of Justice was abolished, as were all subsidiary departments for the …
The Search For Competence: Implications For Academe, F. Murray Fraser
The Search For Competence: Implications For Academe, F. Murray Fraser
Dalhousie Law Journal
Professor Francis Allen states succinctly the problem which faces academic lawyers in these times of rapid and dramatic change: ... law schools in Canada and the United States are undergoing an identity crisis as they attempt to provide broad interdisciplinary and humanistic education and, at the same time, meet the demands for training in legal skills.' The problem is not new. The statement simply reflects the harsh reality of Canadian legal education: the natural tensions which result from the interdependence of university programs in law and the later processes of admission and continuing education under the jurisdiction of governing bodies. …
Law Schools Under Attack, D. A. Soberman
Law Schools Under Attack, D. A. Soberman
Dalhousie Law Journal
We are in danger of losing the creative tension in Canadian legal education, a creative tension that has made the enterprise worthwhile. Let me explain this rather large claim. The academic study of law has a long history of close association with universities of the western world. Law was a founding faculty at the University of Bologna and formed part of all the great early universities of mediaeval Europe. Despite the fact that many students in these universities today do go on to careers in law, the study of law remains an undergraduate liberal discipline for large numbers who do …
Teaching The Common Law In The French Language, Michel Bastarache
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 …
La Facultd De Droit De I'Universitd Laval De 1970 A Nos Jours, Ivan Bernier
La Facultd De Droit De I'Universitd Laval De 1970 A Nos Jours, Ivan Bernier
Dalhousie Law Journal
La Facult6 de droit de l'Universit6 Laval, depuis le tout debut des ann6es 1970, se trouve engag6e dans une transformation en profondeur de ses structures, de son programme et de ses orientations. Trois p6riodes peuvent 8tre distingu6es dans cette 6volution r6cente. La premi6re, qui recoupe en gros les ann6es 1970-1975, concerne essentiellement les structures de l'enseignement de ler cycle. La seconde, qui s'6tend de 1975 A 1980, peut 8tre consid6r6e comme une p6riode de consolidation. Enfin la trosi~me, qui d6bute avec la nouvelle decade, en est une de remise en question de son programme et de ses orientations.
Developments In Legal Education At Mcgill, 1970-1980, J. E. C. Brierley
Developments In Legal Education At Mcgill, 1970-1980, J. E. C. Brierley
Dalhousie Law Journal
In order to trace the developments in legal education at McGill during the last decade, it is first of all necessary to recall the principal initiatives which occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. These were, in chronological order, the creation of the Institute of Air & Space Law in 1951 and the offering of higher degrees in that speciality; the creation of the Institute of Comparative Law in 1965 to give particular focus to graduate work at McGill in fields other than air and space law; and the institution, in 1968, of a programme of undergraduate study leading to the …
Legal Education In Saskatchewan: The Last Ten Years, Donald H. Clark
Legal Education In Saskatchewan: The Last Ten Years, Donald H. Clark
Dalhousie Law Journal
It may appear immodest to note how appropriate it is that the Dalhousie Law Journal should include Saskatchewan in this survey of recent trends in Canadian legal education. Yet from an historical standpoint, the ties between the respective universities have always been strong, and the influence of native Maritimers on the development of the College of Law in Saskatoon, as my colleague Howard McConnell (himself a New Brunswicker) observes in Prairie Justice, "can hardly be overestimated".' The University's first President, Walter Murray, brought west in 1909 one of his former students at Dalhousie, Arthur Moxon, destined to become the College …
Recent Developments In Legal Education At The University Of Toronto, Frank Iacobucci
Recent Developments In Legal Education At The University Of Toronto, Frank Iacobucci
Dalhousie Law Journal
As has been the case in other Canadian law schools, the period of the 1970's and early 1980's has seen a number of significant changes in legal education at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. These changes reflect several underlying themes. The first is that the Law School should remain committed to its strengths in the common law and traditional legal subjects. The second is that we in law schools have much to gain from other disciplines in the teaching and sLudying of lav esp6al-y r times -when -nev areas of la-, praifkularly those spawned by technological …
Law At Western: 1968-1982, Philip Slayton
Law At Western: 1968-1982, Philip Slayton
Dalhousie Law Journal
How to assess a decade or more at a law school? Bare facts - the numbers of students and professors, growth in budgets, courses added and dropped, etc. - have the advantage of objectivity (colleagues cannot disagree even were the facts uncongenial), but will leave some important things unsaid. For example, what have been "environmental" advantages and disadvantages, and how has the School responded to them? And what has been the change in the quality of the School's endeavours; especially, has the Faculty become better? These questions -and particularly the second - are not easy to address. A law school's …
The University Of New Brunswick Faculty Of Law, Edward Veitch
The University Of New Brunswick Faculty Of Law, Edward Veitch
Dalhousie Law Journal
Approaching twenty years ago Dean Ryan Q.C. (now Mr. Justice Ryan of the Federal Court, Appeal Division) described concisely' the development of the institution from a professional training school to a University faculty within the old, established provincial University.2 He dealt successively with the make-up of the student body, the growth of the curriculum, the educational background of the teachers and mentioned the stresses and strains of growth. It is now appropriate to bring all of that information up to date. At the outset it must be observed that the transmogrification from training school to department within the academy has …
Foreword, Bora Laskin Right Honourable
Foreword, Bora Laskin Right Honourable
Dalhousie Law Journal
I am an unabashed admirer of John Willis; and I have credentials that entitle me to speak of his teaching and his writing. We were law school colleagues for some fifteen years and were close personal friends for an even longer period. We remain such close friends today. What was remarkable about John Willis was the range of his teaching. I doubt that any other full-time teacher, at a time when the curriculum was limited and structured, exhibited his command of as many. subjects. Let me list the important ones: administrative (and constitutional) law; history of English law; equity (including …
A Practical Legal Education, William E. Conklin
A Practical Legal Education, William E. Conklin
Dalhousie Law Journal
One of the central issues in regard to legal education during the past half century has been whether law faculties ought to have a theoretical or practical character. The debate has been an intense one. It has taken on many forms and grown from many diverse circumstances. Law societies periodically resurrect the issue. Professional law faculties interminably debate it. Positions are taken, factions are formed, and the unresolved outcome of the debate has left curriculum and initial assumptions relatively unchatged." This essay questions one of the most important assumptions of that debate - namely, that a practical legal education is …
The Social Costs Of Incompetence: An Educator's View, A. Wayne Mackay
The Social Costs Of Incompetence: An Educator's View, A. Wayne Mackay
Dalhousie Law Journal
After I had cut off my hands and grown new ones, something my former hands had longed for came and asked to be rocked. After my plucked out eyes had withered and new ones grown, something my former eyes had wept for came asking to be pitied. 2 The above quotation has been applied to lawyers and in particular the process of legal education. It is a distressing thought for anyone who cares about the law and considers it a worthy profession. Must people sever hands that can rock and pluck out eyes that can pity in order to become …