W. Wesley Pue, (in Canada's Legal Inheritances, forthcoming, Legal Research Institute, Spring, 1996) [also appeared in (1995) 23 Manitoba Law Journal, 654-688]
Common Law Legal Education in Canada's Age of Light, Soap and Water

CONTENTS

The origins of modern common law legal education in Canada are found in the cultural projects of elite Anglo-Canadian lawyers in the first decades of this Century. Though crucially important, the contributions of lawyers in the prairie provinces during the years around the Great War have been insufficiently recognized. Acting both locally and through a national organization they had created (the Canadian Bar Association), prairie lawyers sought to radically rework the ways in which lawyers qualified for admission to the profession. By ensuring the appropriate acculturation of lawyers they hoped to produce a "living law" capable of withstanding the multiple challenges presented by the social and political diversity of early twentieth century Canada. The table of contents is as follows:

Introduction

1. The March of Progress
2. Pedants, Practitioners and Prophets
3. (Yet) Another Formative Era?
4. The West Wants In

Saskatchewan & Alberta
Manitoba
Canadian Bar Association as a Prairie Cultural Expression
5. Regenerating Law: Legal Education as Cultural Allegory

Ira MacKay
J. A. M. Aikins
R. W. Lee
U.S.A. Influences on Canadian Thought About Legal Education
6. Taking Civilization's Survival Seriously