| Robson Hall (University of Manitoba Faculty of Law) | |
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| Motto | Pueris his dedit Deus scientiam (And to these children God gave knowledge (Daniel 1:17)) |
| Established | 1885 |
| Type | Public law school |
| President | Dr. David Barnard |
| Dean | Dr. Lorna A. Turnbull |
| Location | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Campus | Urban Fort Garry |
| Mascot | Bison |
| Affiliations | AUCC, IAU, CIS, CVU, UArctic, ACU, CWUAA |
| Website | http://law.robsonhall.ca |
The University of Manitoba's faculty of law, also known as Robson Hall, is located on the Fort Garry campus of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It boasts a long-standing tradition of clinical legal education, with strong links to the bar and bench, and an increasingly robust interdisciplinary research profile, particularly in feminist legal theory, human rights law, and business law.
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The University of Manitoba first became involved in legal education in 1885, when it established a three-year course of studies leading to the LL.B. degree. This course did not include instruction; it simply prescribed a reading program, with three annual examinations, which articled law students could follow concurrently with the course prescribed by the Law Society. For roughly the next quarter century, the pattern of legal education in Manitoba changed very little. Minor alterations were made from time to time, but the basic method of education continued to be apprenticeship supplemented by private study. In 1911-12 the Law Society was prompted by the Law Students Association to provide a short series of lectures. In 1913 H. A. Robson, then Manitoba's Public Utilities Commissioner and a former judge of the Court of King's Bench, organized a considerably improved course of lectures and began to lay the groundwork for the establishment in the following year of a permanent law school modeled after the Osgoode Hall Law School of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
The Manitoba Law School was jointly sponsored by the University of Manitoba and the Law Society of Manitoba; both bodies took part in its planning from the beginning. In the summer of 1914 they entered into an agreement, subsequently endorsed by legislation, which provided for the creation of the School, offering a three-year course consisting of lectures and apprenticeship leading to both an LL.B. degree and a call to the Bar of Manitoba. The expenses of the School were shared equally by the two parent bodies, and its operations were supervised by a jointly appointed Board of Trustees. This arrangement between the University of Manitoba and the Law Society of Manitoba continued until 1966, when the Law School became the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law.
Robson Hall currently offers J.D. (Juris Doctor) and LL.M. (Master of Laws) programs. The latter program was brought into existence in 1949 by the Manitoba Law School and it was substantially revamped by the Faculty of Law in 1968. Robson Hall is renowned for its strong advocacy component, which includes several required and optional courses in legal advocacy, as well as a number of mooting opportunities throughout the degree program. The school has won thirteen of the past thirty-one Western Canada Moot Trial Competitions, and consistently places at the top of national moot competitions.
Robson Hall is home to the Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law. The Centre was formed with a mandate to "integrate the disciplines of law, business and the humanities as they apply to family-controlled and other private enterprises, the principal foundation of all economic activity in Canada."[1] The Centre provides academic programs that allow students to be trained with the necessary skills to provide well-rounded legal representation and advice to a variety of private businesses.
Robson Hall is also home to the Legal Research Institute, which was created to obtain research funding and grants, as well as to engage in various research projects.[2]
The Faculty of Law's application deadline is November 1 of each year. The school accepts 101 students for entry into the J.D. program each year. The admissions policy of the school is strictly numbers-based for regular applicants (i.e. in accordance with a formula based upon GPA and LSAT scores).[3]
Robson Hall publishes three legal journals: the Canadian Journal of Human Rights, the Manitoba Law Review and the Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. It also publishes a legislative review journal entitled Underneath the Golden Boy.
The Faculty of Law is affiliated with the [Canadian Journal of Women and the Law]] through Debra Parkes, a faculty member currently serving as its chief English-language editor. It is also affiliated with the Canadian Legal Educational Annual Review (CLEAR) through Lorna Turnbull, current dean of the Faculty of Law and its founding editor.
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