Greetings from the DeanWe are less than five months away from opening our doors to the charter class. There is much to do; however, much also has been accomplished. We want to share with you a progress report. In the pages that follow you will find a snapshot of where things stand on: the PACI renovation, staff hiring, curriculum, admissions, the library and an outline of things yet to do.It is an exciting time for us and we are happy to share that excitement with you.

Lee Stuesser, Founding Dean of Law

Faculty of Law Update

Admission to our charter class closed on November 1, 2012. There were over 1,000 applications, which presented a daunting task as we undertook a holistic file review for all applicants. An initial review of the applications was followed by a second review. The process has been long, but worthwhile. We are taking great care to get the right fit of students for our charter class. Unfortunately many qualified people simply cannot be admitted – there are only 55 places. We are now in a rolling admission cycle. Offers of admission are sent out and as we receive the responses we look to fill our class. The cycle may well continue, as it does for all law schools, into the summer months.

Admissions Update

The quality of a law school is directly related to the quality of its staff. Over the past six months, the first year founding team has been put together – academic, administrative and library staff.

During the fall an Appointment Committee of experienced Lakehead University faculty worked with the Dean of Law to hire academic staff. The Committee included: Professor Gerald Phillips, Faculty of Business Administration, Dr. Judith Leggatt, Department of English, and Dr. Carney Matheson, Chair Department of Anthropology.

The Committee was seeking individuals with a strong academic background or extensive legal experience, who are both scholars and teachers. In particular, the Committee was looking for people who enjoy being in the classroom, who will engage and challenge students, and who have a passion for teaching. The following four were selected out of a pool of over 100 applicants, and we are very pleased to have them as part of our founding team:

Dr. Mariette Brennan comes to us from Bond University’s Faculty of Law where she is an Assistant Professor and has taught for four years in the areas of Canadian Constitutional Law and Foundations of Canadian Law, in the Canadian Law Program.

A Canadian, Mariette is looking forward to returning to Canada. She received her Ph.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2012 following her Master of Laws at the University of Essex and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Ottawa in 2003. Upon graduating she practiced for a few years in Windsor, Ontario with McTague Law Firm LLP before beginning her post graduate studies. Her research interests focus on international human rights and health law.

Mariette will teach first year Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility.

Dr. Frances Chapman comes to us from St. Jerome’s University – University of Waterloo, where she has taught as an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies program since 2009 and prior to that as a contract lecturer since 2007. During her time at St. Je-rome’s she has established a strong reputation for her classroom teaching and in 2012 received the UW Legal Studies Society Distinguished Professor Award. Frances also spent time in private practice with the firm of Cohen Highly LLP in London, Ontario.

Dr. Chapman was admitted to the Bar in 2003 after having completed her Juris Doctor at the University of Western Ontario. She returned in 2005 to complete an LL.M. and then went on to Osgoode Hall where she obtained a Ph.D. in 2009. Her research interests lie in the area of criminal defence.

Frances will teach first year Torts and Professional Responsibility.

Karen Drake - B.A. (Hons) (Lakehead University – Philosophy), M.A. (Queen’s University – Philosophy), J.D. (University of Toronto)

Karen is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario and an LL.M. candidate at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the intersection between liberalism and Aboriginal rights, the legal traditions of Indigenous peoples, and Canadian law in relation to Aboriginal peoples, with a focus on the Métis Nation. She previously served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Indigenous Law Journal and recently received the June Callwood Fellowship in Aboriginal Law.

Karen has been extensively involved with the Métis community. She was delighted to assist with founding the Métis Voyageur De-velopment Fund as the organization’s Vice Chair. She has also previously served on the Thunder Bay Métis Council and as a Director with the Métis Artists’ Collective.

As an associate lawyer with Erickson & Partners, Karen previously practised in the area of civil litigation, focusing on Aboriginal legal issues, human rights, and labour and employment law. Prior to that, she articled with Cassels Brock and Blackwell LLP.

She subsequently completed a clerkship with the Ontario Court of Appeal, where she clerked for Justice Stephen Borins, Justice Susan Lang, Justice Harry LaForme, and Justice Gloria Epstein.

Karen will teach first year Native Canadian World Views & Law and Property Law.

Jason MacLean's teaching and research interests include environmental and natural resources law, corporate law (particularly corporate social responsibility), competition law, constitutional law, and contract law.

He received a joint B.C.L. / LL.B. from the McGill Faculty of Law in 2006 and clerked for Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada in 2007-2008. Before joining the Law Faculty at Lakehead University, Jason practiced law as a litigator, first with the firm Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York and then with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto. He has also served as a Legal Consultant to the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation and the Canadian Securities Transition Office (2008-2010). He is called to the Bar in New York and Ontario.

Jason is co-author of the second edition of a leading text on CSR, Corporate Social Responsibility: A Legal Analysis (2nd ed., Lex-isNexis, forthcoming in 2014). He is also a contributing editor of the Global Competition Litigation Review and the Constitutional and Administrative Law Editor of the Toronto Law Journal. He writes about a variety of legal issues as a guest blogger on the Univer-sity of Alberta Faculty of Law Blog, http://ualbertalaw.typepad.com

Jason will teach first year Contracts. Once our faculty arrives in July, we’ll provide photos!

The Founding Team - Faculty Administration and Library

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The Founding Team - Faculty Administration and LibraryA law librarian is a key person in any law school and we are very pleased to have an experienced law librarian join our team. Rob Hudson is the founding Head Librarian of the Faculty of Law Library.

Prior to his employment at Lakehead University he was the founding Law Librarian and Lecturer at Qatar University, College of Law, in the Middle East. Other law librarian postings include Associate Dean for Library at the Phoenix School of Law, Arizona, Interim Director and Head of Public Services at the Law Library and Technology Centre at NSU, Florida, and Faculty Services Librarian at St. Thomas University School of Law, Florida.

Rob received his M.L.I.S. from the University of British Columbia where he began his library career as a law library student assistant and has been working in law libraries since 2003. He received his J.D. at Valparaiso University Law School, Indiana, and Ed.Specialist doctoral degree in Educational Technology from NSU. Rob also holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of California, Riverside.

He and his family arrived in Thunder Bay in January. His two young girls had never seen snow be-fore. They have now been well introduced to a Canadian winter.

Rob will teach first year Foundations of Canadian Law and legal research.Rob Hudson, Head Librarian

Maria Dufresne is the Manager for the Faculty of Law. She brings with her an ideal combination of legal and university governance experience. She has over 20 years experience working in the legal community – first in Toronto and then in Thunder Bay. In 2002, Maria joined Lakehead University, when she took up her position as Executive Assistant to the Provost and Vice-President (Academic).

Since 2005 she has been an instrumental member of the team that spearheaded the initiative for a Faculty of Law at Lakehead University and she has a passion for the Law School and its mission.

Maria’s role will encompass administrative oversight of the Faculty, its program, staff and schedule, as well as engaging the community.

Annet Maurer is the Admission Specialist for the Faculty of Law.

Annet recently returned to Thunder Bay with her Australian husband and young son after living in Australia for twelve years. She brings with her an abundance of administrative and managerial experience. Annet’s primary task has been to review applications as we proceed through our admission cycle, as well as provide support for the administrative functions.

We are teaching law differently, in that we are going to take full advantage of our small size to integrate lawyering skills into our first year curriculum. To that end we will be using a class/tutorial system and we are looking for practitioners to act as tutors. The tutors are an integral part of our program, where the practice of law fuses with theory. Each professor in the core courses will plan and coordinate the tutorial exercises. The tutorials will provide that personal, hands-on instruction in groups of no more than 10 students. For example, in criminal law the skill set will focus on oral communication. Instruction will be given to the students on making court submissions. The students will then learn by doing and will be called upon to do a bail exercise and a guilty plea. Our tutors will help in preparing students for the exercises and in giving feedback.If you are interested in a tutor position and would like more information, please see the notice on page 7 or go to law.lakeheadu.ca/employment.The deadline to apply is May 15, 2013.

Call for Clinical Instructors

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First Year CurriculumAn important priority was to finalize the first year curriculum for the Faculty of Law. Provided below is an outline of the curriculum. It shows that many of the courses will be split into two sections and, in turn, there will be tutorials in most courses.

The use of tutorials will provide a more enriching experience for our students and provide more personal education.

Course Description Term Offered Credit Value # of Sections

Tutorials

Law 1000 Canadian Constitutional Law:Examines the distribution of legislative powers between the federal parliament and the provincial legislatures and the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Full Year 1.0 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two Yes

Law 1020 Contract Law: Explores the basic principles of contract law from formation of a contract to remedies available for breach of contract.

Full Year 1.0 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two Yes

Law 1040 Criminal Law: Criminal law is a survey course intended to introduce students to substantive and procedural aspects of Canadian criminal law.

Full Year 1.0 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two Yes

Law 1060 Tort Law:Examines the law of torts, with particular focus on the law of negligence, as well as looking at other legislative systems intended to compensate persons for damage and injury.

Full Year 1.0 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two Yes

Law 1510 Foundations of Canadian Law: Provides an introduction to the sources of Canadian common law and statute law, principles of interpretation, legal analysis, and legal research.

Fall Term 0.5 FCE

3 hrs per week

One Yes

Law 1530 Native Canadian World Views and Law: Introduces students to world views from the perspective of Ab-original Peoples in Canada and how these perspectives fit within the legal system.

Fall Term 0.5 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two No

Law 1550 Professional Responsibility: Professional Responsibility provides a general introduction to the issues and problems of professional responsibility and the ethics of lawyering.

Winter Term 0.5 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two Yes

Law 1570 Property Law: Examines law associated with real and personal property with special emphasis on Aboriginal and natural resource law issues.

Winter Term 0.5 FCE

3 hrs per week

Two Yes

As you may have heard there was a protest directed at the approval of the first year curriculum and specifically the Native Canadian World Views and Law course. The protesters wanted the course to be taught via the Department of Indigenous Learning. The Dean of Law took the position that all core first year courses had to be taught in the Faculty of Law and by full time law faculty. Lakehead University Academic Senate ultimately approved the law curriculum as presented and the protesters ended their protest.

The Faculty of Law is committed to seeing that the perspectives of the Aboriginal communities are respected and included in the law program. To that end a non-credit course Law 1535: Aboriginal Perspectives will be woven into the first year of studies. This will be a course of interaction, which will introduce students to Aboriginal culture, traditions and perspectives through speakers, dialogue and experience-based opportunities. We look forward to working with the Aboriginal communities to make this an enriching course for our students.

Classes will begin on September 3rd. During the week of September 3 to 6 we will have orientation for our students and a formal opening ceremony for the Faculty of Law. At present the plans remain a work in progress, but we do anticipate an announcement on the formal opening shortly.

Orientation Week - September 3 to 6

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First Year Curriculum About the PACI building

We recently received digital copies of old postcards of Port Arthur Collegiate Insti-tute, from 1912 and 1952.

Alterations were made to the main building to add classrooms in both 1925 and in 1954.

Taking advantage of its high location, a harbour lookout shelter was built adjacent to the school.

To commemorate former students killed during both World Wars, memorial plaques and photographs were installed

in the entrance area of the main floor hall-way. The plaques and photos are a part of the historical designation of the building and will remain in place.

In 1972, a gymnasium was built into the hill, though it was “ill-received” due to its lack of architectural connection to the main building.

It is great to see the changes over the years and we are confident that the renovated law school will do us all proud once completed.

Quick FactsYear built: 1909Architect: Henry Simpson

Building Contractor: George OttoConstruction Material: Simpson Island Sandstone

Designated as a historic building: May 25, 1983Operated as a Public School: September 6, 1910 to June 2007

Work has been underway since the fall to convert the historic Port Arthur Collegiate Institute (PACI) building from a high school to a law school. The work is progressing well. The contractor is DRD Construction Services and the architect is FORM Architecture.Phase I of the renovation focuses on the library and office spaces. Our staff will be arriving for July 1 and the first priority is to have their office space ready. Similarly, the library needs lead time in order to be ready for September 1. The library will be both a wonderful work and study space, but also an architectural jewel.Phase II will begin shortly and its focus will be on the classroom spaces, which do not need as major a renovation.

Thanks to Kieren Somerfield for providing us with the digital images.

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The Law Society of Upper Canada has requested proposals for a Law Practice Program, which would prepare law students for the practice of law. It is an alternative to articling as a pathway to accredita-tion.The Law Society calls for pilot projects where providers would establish an approximately four month practice program and a four month working placement. The Faculty of Law at Lakehead intends to submit a proposal. It is our view that this is in the best in-terests of the students and of the profession in Northern Ontario. Its proposal will be novel, in that it is looking to incorporate the Law Practice Program and the four month placement into the three year law degree. It will do so by having our students take more hours of class each semester. Our students will have 18 credit hours of instruction each semester as compared to the typical 15 credit hours. The Federation of Law Societies requires a minimum of 90 credit hours for the Common Law Degree; the Lakehead JD will require 108 credit hours. We are, therefore, in a position to do more over the three years of our program of studies. We also intend to integrate lawyering skills throughout our curricu-lum. We look at this as a real opportunity to fuse legal theory with the practice of law. It will also help to alleviate lawyer shortages in the North as sole practitioners and smaller firms are more willing to take student placements for four months then a commit to a full ten month period of articles. And, for the students, it will not cost additional fees; nor will it require additional months of time after graduation.As part of its proposal submission, the Faculty of law at Lakehead would like to provide a list of po-tential placement principals, keeping in mind that we would not need placements until September, 2015. A placement requires “Articling like training” for the four month placement. Unlike articling, placements would be unpaid – as they are part of the third year law program. The placements would be coordinated by the Faculty of Law and could be either in the September or January terms.If you would be willing to provide a placement, please refer to the form on page 8 and return it to the Faculty of Law as indicated. We would appreciate receiving any statements of interest by May 30 to include with our proposal.

Legal Practice Program

The Faculty of Law’s Library is currently a construction zone; however, once complete the library will have a collection capacity for 18,000 volumes, seating for 100, and a mezzanine level consisting of study space for 20 study carrels, three small group study rooms, and an instructional lab. Soft seat-ing and computer desks will be dispersed throughout the stacks, and are planned as well to be on the main floor of the library. The collection will be a mixture of digital and print. Both print and digital resources will include a core of primary and secondary materials with particular strength in Aboriginal law, Natural Resources law, and Northern practice materials suitable for rural and small town lawyering in accord with the mission of the Faculty of Law. As we develop the collection, we endeavor where possible to enlarge access to interested groups outside of the law school. For example, we recently obtained HeinOnLine, which is a leading electronic journal database, and our use licence makes it available for researchers in other university faculties.

A note about the Law Library

Contact UsQuestions or comments?General comments: law@lakeheadu.caLibrary questions: rhudson1@lakeheadu.ca

We anticipate sending out another update in July.

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Lakehead University, Faculty of Law wishes to express its sincere thank you to members of the profession who have supported the establishment of the Faculty and have given of their time and efforts to ensure excellence for the new law degree program. The Faculty of Law is now seeking qualified practitioners to teach tutorials during the 2013/2014 academic year. Description of the Tutorial Role: We will be using a class/tutorial system in our first year courses in which classroom instruction is complemented by tutorials. The tutorial assignments, reading and objectives are set by the professor and we are looking for our tutors to bring their practical experience to bear on the academic subject areas. The tutorial instructors will also assist in the delivery of skill training within the subject such as: judging of arguments, skill feedback and assignment marking. Time Commitment: One hour per week through 12 weeks each term. In addition tutors can anticipate an additional 3-4 hours of skill assessment and marking. The tutorials will normally be scheduled for later in the afternoon. Each tutor will also have to participate in an orientation/teaching session prior to the start of term. Available positions: Please note that we anticipate that individuals may well wish to teach more than one tutorial in a subject area back to back.

Requirements: A degree or graduate degree in law, professional practice experience and a commitment to teaching excellence. Clinical Honorarium: $1,000.00 honorarium for each tutorial (12 week term).For further information, please contact Lee Stuesser, Dean of the Faculty of Law, at (807) 346-7898 or lstuesse@lakeheadu.ca. Note, Lakehead University is an equal opportunity employer. Interested applicants should submit a resume, a statement of their teaching and practice interests and the names and addresses of three references to: Professor Lee Stuesser Dean, Faculty of Law Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1

Email: lawfaculty@lakeheadu.ca

Applications close on May 15, 2013.

Call for Clinical Instructors

Fall Semester 2013 Winter Semester 2013Subject # of Tutorials Subject # of Tutorials

Constitutional Law 4 Constitutional Law 4Criminal Law 4 Criminal Law 4Contract Law 4 Contract Law 4Torts 4 Torts 4

Property Law 4Prof Responsibility 4

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Law Practice Program Statement of Interest

The Faculty of Law at Lakehead University is looking to establish a Law Practice Program, within its three year JD law degree. A four month placement is a required component of the Program. Placement provides hands-on practical training to the students. To take on a student in placement is to accept an undertaking to commit time and effort in order to provide the student with as meaningful and varied a professional experience as the Principal’s practice reasonably permits. The responsibilities of placement principals encompass commitment, teaching and role-modelling, among others.

Eligibility Criteria 1. Experience: A member must have been actively engaged in the practice of law for three of

the five years immediately preceding the commencement of the relevant place ment period.

2. Competency & Ethical Standards: A member must be in good standing with the Law Society. A member with a negative history with the Law Society (as per Articling Principals) may be denied the privilege of acting as a Placement Principal.

3. Prospective Principals with any of the following are not eligible to act as a Placement Principal:

a. Open complaints being investigated by the Investigation Department of the Professional Regulation Division, or b. Open complaints containing allegations of sexual harassment and/or discrimination, or c. Outstanding disciplinary proceedings.

Name:Year of Call to the Bar: Law Society Member No:Name of Firm, Business or Employer:Address:Telephone: Fax:Email:

I am interested in acting as a principal placement: Yes Please select: Fall term (Sept - Dec) Winter term (Jan - April)

Signed: Date:

Return signed forms to: Professor Lee Stuesser Dean, Faculty of Law Lakehead University 955 Oliver Road Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1

Email: lawfaculty@lakeheadu.ca8