Research Catalog

Title

Law and learning : report to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada / by the Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law.

Author

Consultative Group on Research and Education in Law.

Publication

Ottawa : The Council, 1983.

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Additional Authors

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Description

ix, 186, 212, x p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Droit et le savoir.

Subject

• Law > Study and teaching > Canada
• Law teachers > Canada
• Legal research > Canada

Note

• "Catalogue no. CR22-6/1983"--t.p. verso.
• English and French.
• Title on added t.p.: Le droit et le savoir.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography : p. 183-186.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Chapter 1. The threshold question: why a study of research and education in law? -- Chapter 2. Canadian legal education -- a historical perspective -- The evolution of Canadian law faculties -- Comparisons and conclusions -- Chapter 3. Law faculties today -- Undergraduate enrolment -- Graduate enrolment -- Numbers of faculty, and the issue of student/teacher ratios -- Teacher ratios -- Allocation of resources -- Salaries -- The LLB curriculum -- Graduate studies -- Research -- Libraries -- Continuing legal education, public legal education and bar admission -- Professoriate -- Influences on legal education and research -- Contact with "other" officia Canadian language/legal culture -- Guidelines for development -- Chapter 4. Themes and structures in legal education -- Humane professionalism: aspiration and achievement -- The academic education of lawyers -- Eclecticism and pluralism in legal education -- The study of law in arts and other faculties --^
• Chapter 5. Perspectives on legal research -- The development of legal scholarship in Canada -- Types of legal research -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Inventory and analysis of legal research -- Chapter 7. Academic legal research -- Profile of law professors as legal researchers -- Formal and informal scholarly networks in law -- Law as a university-based discipline -- Influence of the educational context -- Chapter 8. Professional and public legal research -- Public legal research -- Chapter 9. Resources for legal research -- Sources of funds for legal research -- Research tools and publications -- Limited resources and crucial themes in legal scholarship -- Chapter 10. Toward a scholarly discipline of law -- Scholarship in Canadian law faculties: a review -- The professional nexus -- The making of scholars: first degree and graduate studies -- Support for quality and quantity in legal scholarship -- Scholars, lawyers and governments -- Chapter 11. Conclusions and recommendations --^
• General conclusions -- Recommendations -- Implementation -- Appendices : -- 1. Terms of reference of the consultative group on research and education in law -- 2. Regional consultations -- 3. List of briefs -- Select bibliography

ISBN

0662524365 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library