A History of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review

MALCOLM MACLAREN

ABSTRACT

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review began in 1942 as the law students' newspaper at the University of Toronto. Its ambition was modest: to record the life and times of the law school. As legal education at the University dramatically changed in the early 1950s, so did the Law Review. The professionalization of the publication mirrored the professionalization of the law school. From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, the publication came to serve as a forum for intellectual debate, displaying an increasing sophistication and responsiveness to contemporary legal science and philosophy. The Law Review of the last two decades - in both product and process - is a testament to the developments that have revolutionized legal scholarship and education in the same period. The publication now seeks to become Canada's central forum for student participation in legal debate.

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Citation: (1997) 55(2) U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 375.
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