The Great Transition in Legal Education

In the 1960s, the University of Manitoba Law School moved from being an downtown, practitioner-taught law school to the suburban campus of a large university. This great transition was modelled after many in Canada. The debate has arisen as to whether law schools have become excessively immersed in the bureaucracy and research orientation of universities, and should embark upon a new transition, in which academic and practical perspectives are better integrated. Bryan Schwartz has been a pioneer in the use of oral history as a dimension of academic law journals, and in this special issue, a dozen of the leaders of the 1960s-era transition candidly reflect in interviews on their lives, careers and the future of legal education. The result is a lively, readable and searching exploration that will be of interest to those reflecting on past and future of legal education throughout the world.

About the Author

Professor Bryan Schwartz is the Asper Professor of International Business and Trade Law at the University of Manitoba.
A graduate of the Master's and Doctor's program at Yale Law School, he is the author of ten books and over a hundred academic articles, and has received awards for teaching, research and scholarship. Bryan is a practicing lawyer as well, and has argued a number of cases at the Supreme Court of Canada as well as serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator in labour and international trade law cases. He is the founding and senior editor of the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law and the Underneath the Golden Boy annual review of legislation and public policy. With Darcy MacPherson, he is the senior editor of the Manitoba Law Journal.

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