In order to control entry into the market of new
Canadian faculties of law or foreign universities offering Canadian Law degrees, the Federation of Law Societies has sought to define what is a Canadian law degree.
Not exact matches
Gary is quite right that the commercial publishers maintain databases
of Canadian legal scholarship in digital form, and that they make these available to
law faculties and
law students free
of cost.
It's the single largest donation to UBC's
law faculty and one
of the biggest donations ever given to a
Canadian law school.
Would legal writing and legal research be taught by
law librarians (who, at
Canadian universities, are themselves
faculty with little or no experience
of legal practice), or would the responsibility be given to adjunct
faculty from the practising bar, with hands - on experience
of research in practice?
Law school dean and chairwoman
of the Council
of Canadian Law Deans, Camille Cameron, took to the podium to give the Dalhousie community an update on their alma mater, including building renovations,
faculty retirements and that the Indigenous Blacks and Mi» kmaq initiative, launched in 1989, will graduate its 200th student in Dal's 200th year.
The
Canadian Association
of Legal Ethics has created a series
of seven videos that will make it easier for
law school
faculty, bar admissions and continuing professional development programs to explore contemporary legal ethics issues.
Ours is the first
Canadian campus to use the program, and the
Faculties of Arts,
Law and Business have made it available to their students.
In its place, the school began a
faculty - run journal with a more specific focus, the
Canadian Journal
of Law and Jurisprudence (CJLJ).
An article in yesterday's The Globe and Mail «Ontario Schools Compete for
Law Faculties» outlines the efforts of three Ontario universities in trying to set up the first Canadian law school in almost thirty yea
Law Faculties» outlines the efforts
of three Ontario universities in trying to set up the first
Canadian law school in almost thirty yea
law school in almost thirty years.
Any member
of CALT holding an appointment (tenured, tenure - track, post-doc or sessional contract) at a
faculty or department
of law at a
Canadian university is eligible to enter the competition within seven years
of commencing the first such appointment.
The annual volumes and 1997/2001 Consolidated Volume have been sent to the Reference Section
of Canadian University
Faculties of Law, the National Library
of Canada, Ottawa,
Law Libraries
of Supreme and Provincial Courts, Department
of Justice, Memorial University, Grenfell Campus, Queen Elizabeth II Library, the Centre for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies and Departmental Libraries, the
Law Society
of Newfoundland and Labrador and public libraries in the province.
The Council
of Canadian Law Deans had expressed concern that any requirements established by law societies not be unnecessarily intrusive into the curriculum of law faculti
Law Deans had expressed concern that any requirements established by
law societies not be unnecessarily intrusive into the curriculum of law faculti
law societies not be unnecessarily intrusive into the curriculum
of law faculti
law faculties.
Fortunately, the dean
of every
Canadian law school could put forward examples
of faculty members who do not seem discouraged by the demands that require them to balance committed and skilled teaching, innovative scholarship and engagement with the community.
The scholarship is part
of a program to provide financial aid to students with physical, mental, intellectual, or sensory impairments for undergraduate or grad studies at
Canadian law faculties.
After years
of running a
Law School Survey that ranked faculties of law across Canada by gathering results of a questionnaire sent to alumni, Canadian Lawyer is doing things a bit differently this ye
Law School Survey that ranked
faculties of law across Canada by gathering results of a questionnaire sent to alumni, Canadian Lawyer is doing things a bit differently this ye
law across Canada by gathering results
of a questionnaire sent to alumni,
Canadian Lawyer is doing things a bit differently this year.
Rogers, CEO, Stewart McKelvey Montreal: Yves Fortier, chairman emeritus, Ogilvy Renault LLP Toronto: Clay Horner, partner, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Toronto: Paul Copeland, human rights lawyer and former
Law Society of Upper Canada bencher Ottawa: Eugene Meehan, partner, Lang Michener LLP and former Canadian Bar Association president Edmonton: Anne McLellan, former attorney general of Canada, now counsel with Bennett Jones LLP and special faculty member at University of Alberta In - house counsel: Melissa Kennedy, general counsel, corporate secretary, and senior vice president corporate affairs, Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan Legal academia: Ian Holloway, dean, University of Western Ontario law school Inter
Law Society
of Upper Canada bencher Ottawa: Eugene Meehan, partner, Lang Michener LLP and former
Canadian Bar Association president Edmonton: Anne McLellan, former attorney general
of Canada, now counsel with Bennett Jones LLP and special
faculty member at University
of Alberta In - house counsel: Melissa Kennedy, general counsel, corporate secretary, and senior vice president corporate affairs, Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan Legal academia: Ian Holloway, dean, University
of Western Ontario
law school Inter
law school Internal
Canadian courts, legal periodicals,
law faculties and lawyers rely on the Guide to maintain a uniform system
of legal citation.
As has worked in the past, when the neutral citation system for
Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for
Canadian judgments, I would suggest the work be entrusted to a core working group supported by an advisory board representative
of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the
Canadian Judicial Council), the
law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum), legal writing and research
faculty,
law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English legal communities.
We are so dominated by TV's American depiction
of trials that even materials put out by
Canadian law faculties and
law publishers show judicial gavels all the time.
To acknowledge once again the limits
of this description, while most
Canadian law faculties and individual professors subscribe to these anti-fundamentalist propositions, they do so with varying degrees
of conviction, and actually act on their implications with varying degrees
of consistency.
We have put together a comprehensive list
of all
Canadian law schools with links to their websites including their
faculty,
law journals,
law libraries, admissions information, and curriculum guide.