Law @ UofT:
Law as a Great University Subject
Markus Dubber
A Program
- Kennedy, Foreword
(1935):
There is evident at the University of Toronto a growing interest in law as a great university subject, as a scientific education, and as an instrument of social justice, which is all undoubtedly part of the world-wide renaissance of legal studies which we are to-day witnessing....
The University of Toronto Law Journal is thus born in a world of new legal activities and in the environment of special developments in the University of Toronto. It is appropriate to make a short statement of the aims and hopes of its founders and editors. First, all the editors are members of the University of Toronto--whether as teachers or as students. As students together in the same university, our common devotion to legal studies may provide further incentive to legal scholarship, and that enthusiasms given to a common editorial purpose will bear fruit in future authorship, constructive criticism, in deepening and purifying the social functions of law, and in elevating the standards of legal learning. Secondly, we hope that the University of Toronto Law Journal will contain contributions not merely on common-law subjects but on comparative law, ... on public law, on international law, and on special legal developments in the British Empire and the United States....
Origins
- Kennedy (1879-1963)
- Risk, The Many Minds of W.P.M. Kennedy
- Risk, Volume 1 of the Journal: A Tribute and Belated Review
- Risk, "When the World Was Turned Upside Down" [e.legal]
- Friedland, The
Enigmatic W.P.M. Kennedy
- Wright (1904-1967)
- Laskin, Cecil Wright: A Personal Memoir
- Bickenbach & Kyer, The Harvardization of Caesar Wright (1983)
- Willis (1907-1997)
- Risk, My Continuing Legal Education
- Risk, In
Memoriam
- Laskin (1912-1984)
- Friedland, Bora Laskin: Legendary Force
Legal Education
- Kennedy, Legal Subjects in the Universities of Canada (1933)
- Kennedy, Law
as a Social Science (1934):
FIRST YEAR
(1) Roman History
(2) Economics
(3) Philosophy
(4) Introduction to Legal Science
(5) History of the Judicial System and Equity
(6) The Law of Contract
SECOND YEAR
(1) Can. Constitutional History
(2) Philosophy
(3) The Law of Torts
(4) Criminal Law
(5) Real Property
(6) Roman & Comp. Civil Law
(7) Development of Int'l Law
THIRD YEAR
(1) Political Science
(2) Philosophy
(3) History of English Law
(4) English Constitutional Law
(5) Administrative Law
(6) Private International Law
FOURTH YEAR
(1) Modern Political Science
(2) Philosophy
(3) Canadian Constitutional Law
(4) Comparative Constitutional and Administrative Law
(5) Industrial Law
(6) Municipal Law
(7) Public International Law
(8) Jurisprudence
- Wright, Law and the Law Schools (1938) [e.legal]
- Wright, The University Law Schools (1950) [e.legal]
- Wright, The Outlook for Ontario Legal Education (1957)
- Wright, The University Law Schools (1950) [e.legal]
- Willis, What Makes a Law School Great? (1980)
Scholarship
- Public Law
- Administrative Law
- Kennedy, Aspects of Administrative Law in Canada (1934)
- Willis, Three Approaches to Administrative Law (1935)
- Willis, Delegatus Non Potest Delegare (1943) [e.legal]
- Willis, Note on NolanÕs Case (1951) [e.legal]
- Letters to the Editor [e.legal]
- Willis, Canadian Administrative Law in Retrospect (1974)
- Constitutional Law
- Laskin, "Peace, Order and Good Government" Re-examined (1947) [e.legal]
- Private Law
- Tort Law
- Wright, Gross Negligence (1927/1983)
- Wright, An Extra-Legal Approach to Law (1932) [e.legal]
Back to the Future: A UofT Model?
- Critical
Analysis of Law ("constructive criticism")
- Analysis
- "legal learning"
- Critique
- critical distance: "philosophical, juristic and sociological criticism" (Kennedy)
- interdisciplinary/external
- philosophical, sociological, and economic, historical, psychological, literary, etc.
- intradisciplinary/internal
- juristic and comparative
- Critique
& analysis; liberal & professional; Kennedy
& Wright
