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How to Date a 1L
Here’s an interesting Facebook group that’s popped up: How to Date a 1L: First Year Required Companion Class. For anyone who has been there, you know how bang-on this is. From their wall: Fidelity: •…
BC Sues UVic Law Grad over Outstanding Loan
The Times Colonist reports that BC’s Ministry of the Attorney-General is launching an action against a former University of Victoria Law student to recover $20,000 in student-aid debt. The student, one Kent Daniel Glowinski, is…
If school kills creativity, what about law school?
Sir Ken Robinson offers some critique of our education system in this video from 2006. Perhaps some of this could be used in law school reform. Who ever heard of creativity in law school?
Planet Law
The 1Ls in my law school put this one together. It’s actually not that far off from an accurate description of what goes on. Planet Law: 1L Obiter Dicta Video 2010 from Steven Pulver on…
Billing By The Hour
There has been a great deal of discussion among legal commentators about the failure of hourly billing for legal services and the need for alternatives. The most recent article I’ve seen is in the CBA’s…
Tell ’em They’re Your 1st Choice (Even if They’re Not)
Here’s a great piece from Andrew Black of Windsor Law. I think he’s funny, even though he beat me in a moot (I’m not bitter or anything). If you get an OCI friend, Cop it…
An Interview with Quebec’s first black lawyer
Anthony Morgan, a McGill law student and president of the Black Law Students’ Association of Canada, interviewed Frederick Phillips, McGill’s first black law grad and Quebec’s first black lawyer. You can read the interview on…
“Bleeding hearts in law school”
On Friday, Kory Teneycke, a former top adviser to PM Stephen Harper, was interviewed on CTV’s Power Play about the Khadr decision: Here’s a transcript of the best parts: All of the same sob story…
LSAT Accomodation
A would-be law student has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario in Arenson v. Law School Admission Council. She was requesting accommodations for the LSAT exam due to her disability. See…
The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand
From Volume III, Issue II of Amicus Curiae, Western Law’s Student Paper Canada was a different place before Trudeaumania swept the nation, and the man we know as Ivan Rand, founding Dean of this law…
Panel Proclaims Prorogation Problem Political
An expert panel on prorogation was convened on Thursday at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. The panel featured law professor David Schneiderman, director of Fair Vote Canada Larry Gordon, Globe & Mail correspondent…