I am lucky enough to be a senior editor of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal in the year of its 50th anniversary. To mark this occasion the Journal is publishing a series of special issues on “Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Environmental Law, Transnational Law and Comparative Constitutionalism, and Access to Justice and Law Reform” – to quote our editor-in-chief (and Section C’s criminal law prof last year) Jamie Cameron.

The Winter 2007 issue began the anniversary series with a discussion of law and feminism. Mary Jane Mossman (my first year property prof) guest-edited it and wrote a foreword and a book review. My first two footnote assignments when I was a junior editor came from our feminism issue.

The current Spring 2008 issue, with an all new look and feel, focuses on legal ethics and professional responsibility with Trevor Farrow as a guest editor. Professor Farrow is familiar to the 2010 Osgoode class as one of the faculty leaders of the brand new Ethical Lawyering in a Global Community course. Adam Dodek whose article opens the ethics issue was my Ethical Lawyering professor. Another name in the table of contents familiar to my class is Janet Leiper, the Visiting Professor of Public Interest Law and the overseer of the Osgoode Public Interest Requirement.

These are some of the happenings and names that remind me of my first year in Osgoode and with the Law Journal. I marked the passing of three quarters of the summer watching L’année dernière à Marienbad in the Cinematheque last night. Remember last year?