Category Archives: Legal Education

Petition

Posted on April 8, 2017 by

Teaching course in “Legal Accounting” at the law school, in the mid-1980s. Course relating to law office management, but also including introductory financial accounting. Very introductory, but necessary. Remember meeting one of my recently-qualified legal colleagues, one year after commencement … Continue reading →

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Delegation II

Posted on December 4, 2016 by

R. Douglas Elliott, at the 2016 Osgoode Forum on Administrative Law and Practice, commenting on the actions of various law societies in deferring to a central body of law deans to tell the various provincial law societies whether a law … Continue reading →

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Constant

Posted on November 15, 2016 by

Needed to mark some accounting exams. Decided to go to the law library. Knew it well, 1973-1976. Three years, day and night. Back, on occasion. Such as this. Some different configurations, but same tables and desks. Different people, same feeling. … Continue reading →

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What the law student doesn’t know II

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

Wrote about the problems of legal education and lawyer qualification here and here, among other commentaries. Related themes from a 2009 article by Jordan Furlong, “The crossed purposes of legal education“: One of the signs that change is underway in … Continue reading →

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Insecure Excellence

Posted on April 8, 2016 by

Have discussed the weak qualification process for lawyers in Ontario and, it appears, in terms of the questionable acceptable quality of various Canadian law degrees, throughout common law provinces in Canada. Have compared the qualification processes for professional accountants, which … Continue reading →

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List and Filter

Posted on May 15, 2015 by

There was a time, at least through the 1970s, when law firms actively sought particular law students, rather than there being a more formalized selection process of law students in a general applicant pool for articling positions. At the University … Continue reading →

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Susan Cavan

Posted on February 26, 2015 by

She was in the same section as I was in one of the Ontario Bar Admission Course classes, 1977-1978. Back when there were classes at the Ontario Bar Admission Course, thus enabling students from different schools and backgrounds to get … Continue reading →

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Show Me The Approach

Posted on July 10, 2014 by

From an earlier piece, in relation to law school examinations: In January of 1974, the results of the mid-term exams were posted at my law school. In the Contracts course in my section, I ended up with the highest mark. … Continue reading →

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Dr. Hayek: Opinion

Posted on May 19, 2014 by

Dr. Emil J. Hayek taught Commercial for many years in the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. He was unique, in having earned a doctorate in law at a time when the most common professorial … Continue reading →

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Taken Aside

Posted on March 10, 2014 by

Owe much to first term of first year law school, 1973. Came there with some fog of the times. Emphasis on the contrary. The radicalism of the extremely comfortable, which was typical of so much of the supposedly countercultural. Had … Continue reading →

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