TOP TECH: Law students’ app AU REVOIR: Tributes to EXPANDED CARE: Free robe wins international competition three prized professors bank inspires lawyers in other cities E T C U I O D UAlberta LaSwUMMER 2021 H U T J E I W R P NEW DIRECTIONS DURING AN HISTORIC YEAR Legacy Gifts: Shape Future Leaders Joanne Cave, ‘20 JD Begins her clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada in September 2021 When you include the University of Alberta Faculty of Law as part of your estate plan, you inspire the next generation of law students and leaders. 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All material 39 Publications 18 copyright 2021 and may not be reprinted without ALUMNI express written permission of the Faculty of Law. 40 Clothed in Care Canada Post Free robe bank Publications Agreement finds traction 8 TURNING POINTS No. 40063511 42 Consolidating Taking stock of Faculty changes during PRINTED IN CANADA Constitution’s an historic year Burke Group Inc. Documents Return undeliverable Book distils and copies to: 18 WINNING LEGAL TECH organizes material Faculty of Law University of Alberta Students’ automated complaints app wins thematically 177 Law Centre international competition 43 Class Notes Edmonton, AB T6G 2H5 Visit us online at 20 RETIREES BID US AU REVOIR COMMUNITY ualberta.ca/law and find us on: Professors Catherine Bell, Philip Bryden 44 New Scholarship for and Tamara Buckwold leave Faculty     BIPOC Students 46 In Memoriam Cover photo by: Steve Glen and Diana Van Oorschot || 3 || UAlberta.ca/law KEEP IN TOUCH! UAlbertaLaw Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn UPFRONT A MESSAGE FROM DEAN BARBARA KEEP IN TOUCH! BILLINGSLEY initiatives. And, as I hope you will see clearly from the stories in this magazine, through it all we have done more than survive — we have thrived! Our faculty members, students, staff and alumni have continued to do great things, both in and out of the virtual classroom, and we have come through the year with many successes and achievements. Looking ahead, September 2021 will mark 100 years since the Faculty of Law started delivering legal education as a three-year full- UAlbertaLaw time program on the University of Alberta campus. There could not be a more fitting time to be welcoming our students back to campus for in-person classes! As I write this message, we are planning and very much looking forward to having faculty, students, instructors and staff physically back in the Law Centre for the 2021-2022 academic year. While it is comforting to know that we can deliver our Hello Fellow Alumni! program virtually if needed, there is no substitute for having the members Welcome to the 2021 edition of “Without Prejudice,” our University of our academic community working, of Alberta Faculty of Law alumni magazine. learning and socializing together in a About a year ago, I penned my first “dean’s message” for this common space. Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn magazine. It has been quite a year since then! As alumni, you are valued members Like the rest of the world, over the past 12 months the Faculty of that community, and I hope to responded and adapted to the global pandemic. For us, that meant see many of you in the Law Centre delivering all of our classes, exams and events in an online format. At the and at Law Faculty events during the same time, we managed drastic budget cuts and, with the benefit of an upcoming academic year. overwhelming show of support from our alumni, we preserved our status as an autonomous Faculty amid the university’s major restructuring Barbara Billingsley || 5 || UAlberta.ca/law UPFRONT HIGHLIGHTS Indigenous law students take on national and international leadership positions Two Faculty of Law students were elected in November to represent Indigenous law students across Canada at the Indigenous Bar Association and the National Indigenous Law Students’ Association. Nêhiyaw (Cree) law student Anita Cardinal-Stewart, ‘22 JD, became the vice-president First Nations for the National Indigenous Law Students’ Association (NILSA) and student representative for the Indigenous Bar Association (IBA) She is now NILSA president (See page 29). Métis law student Kienna Shkopich-Hunter, ‘22 JD, was named acting communications officer for NILSA. In October, Indigenous law student Casey Caines, '23 JD, led and organized youth groups from all over the world during 2020’s YOUNGA Forum Global Takeover of the United Nations. Kienna Shkopich-Hunter, '22 JD NOVEMBER 3RD FEBRUARY 26TH Government plaza named in honour of alumna Violet King Henry In February, Edmonton’ s Federal Building Plaza, near the Alberta legislature, was renamed the Violet King Henry Plaza in honour of Violet King, ‘53 LLB, who was the first Black woman to practise law in Canada. After graduation, she also became just the second woman lawyer in Calgary, where she practised criminal law, often speaking to issues of racism and gender inequality. In 1956, she moved to Ottawa to work for the federal Citizenship and Immigration department, and later moved to the United States where she became the first woman to hold a senior management position with the U.S.’ s national YMCA organization. King Henry died in New York City in 1982, at age 52. Violet King, ‘53 LLB || 6 || PhD students in Indigenous law and animal law win prestigious Killam Scholarships For the first time, doctoral students at the Faculty of Law have been awarded Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarships. Naiomi Metallic and Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere are each recipients of the awards, which include a stipend of $45,000 annually for two years. Metallic’s thesis is on the implementation of Indigenous laws in Canada, with an inter-societal law focus. Her supervisor is Assistant Professor Hadley Friedland. Born and raised on the Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec, Metallic is an assistant professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, where she’s the Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy. Before entering academia in 2016, she practised law with a focus on Aboriginal law and Indigenous governance. Rodriguez Ferrere’s thesis is on animal protection enforcement, focusing on Alberta and New Zealand. Naiomi Metallic Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere He argues that the enforcement is so deficient it undermines the rule of law and thus becomes a of Otago. He earned his master of laws at the University of constitutional problem of concern to all citizens. He Toronto and was in legal practice for several years prior. His is supervised by Professor Peter Sankoff. Rodriguez areas of research focus on constitutional and administrative Ferrere is based in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he is law, as well as the regulation of the legal relationship between a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University humans and non-human animals. MAY 18TH JUNE – AUGUST JULY 2ND New summer law program exposes Indigenous students to Indigenous Two graduate legal traditions students win Viscount Bennett Scholarships Launchpad Into Law is a new summer workshop series available to Indigenous Faculty of Law LLM law students who will be starting 1L students Rachel Weary, in September. It was created for the ‘18 JD, and Ngaire Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Androsoff are each winners Lodge by Tamara Pearl, the Faculty of of a $20,000 Viscount Law's Indigenous support manager, with Bennett Scholarship for funding from the Alberta Law Foundation. 2021 from the Law Society Participants are exposed to Indigenous laws of Alberta. The award before their official law studies begin. The supports post-graduate intent is to "counterbalance the dominance studies by law graduates, of Canadian law with Indigenous legal articling students or lawyers traditions and prepare Indigenous students practising in Alberta. to learn respectful community engagement practices," says Pearl. The 2021 series consists of six intensive workshops, with 16 incoming Indigenous students from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Saskatchewan and Lakehead University participating in a virtual delivery. An in-person gathering in August will ceremonially welcome them to their official law school training. Tamara Pearl || 7 || UAlberta.ca/law FEATURE Taking stock of changes at the Faculty of Law during an historic year STORIES BY SARAH KENT & HELEN METELLA University of Alberta Faculty of Law || 8 || E ven before a global pandemic upended everything, this year was destined to be a landmark one At the same time as we were approaching at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law this 100-year milestone, like the rest of the Taking stock of changes at the — in September we will admit our 100th world the Faculty was responding to the class of full-time law students! challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. True, we celebrated 100 years as a Some major developments arising from Faculty of Law during an historic year Faculty in 2012, but back then law students the Faculty’s response to the pandemic studied part time, attending Law Society- included shifting to remote delivery of sponsored lectures before or after a full instruction and career services, addressing day of work articling at a law office in what pandemic-related questions in classrooms STORIES BY SARAH KENT & HELEN METELLA was known as “the English model” of legal and public discourse, and the implementation training. In 1921, the Faculty became the of significant new social and financial aids first full-time Faculty of Law in Western for students. On July 1, 2021, the University Canada and adopted the Harvard model in of Alberta also reorganized itself under a which students study law for three years, new College model, which situates the still- then article for a year. autonomous Faculty of Law within a College of Social Sciences and Humanities alongside the Faculties of Arts and Education and the Alberta School of Business. At this extraordinary point in the world’s history, watershed moments, firsts and critical markers are accumulating. It has been no different for the Faculty of Law. For us, 2020–21 has had 15 months filled with turning points, highlights and change. || 9 || UAlberta.ca/law Fresh opportunities to explain Canadian law to the public Professors deliver as pandemic prompts queries on health law, Constitution, disinformation T he COVID-19 health crisis has whetted public interest in numerous fine points of the law and placed experts from the University of Alberta Faculty of Law in the spotlight almost daily. They’ve delivered crisp, clear soundbites and large social media campaigns, succinct Twitter threads, in-depth interviews and plain-language essays, and responded eloquently to citizens’ questions during webinars. Among them, Professor Timothy Caulfield has countered misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccinations. Associate Professor Ubaka Ogbogu has evaluated the Alberta government’s pandemic response and explained the legislated rights and role of chief public officers of health. Vice Dean Eric Adams has clarified the protections for religious rights, personal rights and dissent. In one of the Centre for Constitutional Studies’ monthly Charter Series webinars, Executive Director Patricia Paradis explained how courts balance the constitutional protection of individual rights and freedoms in the Charter with the interests of the community. || 10 ||