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    Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's life in the law / edited by G. Blaine Baker and Richard Janda.

    • Title:Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's life in the law / edited by G. Blaine Baker and Richard Janda.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Baker, G. Blaine, editor.
      Janda, Richard, 1959- editor.
    • Published/Created:Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
      ©2019
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Le Dain, GeĢrald E., 1924-2007.
      Canada. Supreme Court--Biography.
      Judges--Canada--Biography.
    • Genre/Form:Biographies.
    • Description:xi, 452 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    • Summary:"Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy, legislative reform, university administration, and judicial decision-making. This book intersperses contributions from the in-house historian of the law firm where Le Dain first practised, from students and colleagues in the law schools where he taught, from a research associate in his Commission of Inquiry into the non-medical use of drugs, from two of his successors on the Federal Court of Appeal, and from three judicial clerks to Le Dain at the Supreme Court of Canada. Also reproduced here is a transcript of a recent CBC documentary about his 1988 forced resignation from the Supreme Court following a short-term depressive illness, with commentary from Le Dain's family and co-workers. Gerald Le Dain was a tireless worker and a highly respected judge. In a series of essays that cover the different periods and dimensions of his career, Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law is an important and compassionate account of one man's commitment to the law in Canada."-- Provided by publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0773555196 paperback
      9780773555198 paperback
      9780773555181 hardcover
      0773555188 hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Juristic Biographies, Homage Volumes, and "Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law" / G. Blaine Baker
      2. University Boot Camp and World War II Army Service / Gerald E. Le Dain
      3. Walker, Martineau Years, 1950
      1953 / C. Ian Kyer
      4. Part-time Montreal Law Practice and Part-time Law School Lecturing of the 1950s and 1960s / Stephen Scott
      5. Le Dain and Legal Education: A Tale of Two Cities / Roderick A. Macdonald
      6. Tree of Knowledge, the Axe of Power: Le Dain and the Transformation of Canadian Legal Education / H.W. Arthurs
      7. Accidental Soldier in the War against the War on Drugs / Melvyn Green
      8. Pleading Public Law Issues in the Barfried Enterprises Case / Gerald E. Le Dain
      9. Federal Court Years, 1975
      1984 / John M. Evans
      10. Crown Zellerbach: Bringing Clarity to National Concern / Peter W. Hogg
      11. Constitutional Transitions: Le Dain's Approach to Jurisdiction over the Environment / Richard Janda
      12. Gerald Le Dain: Sur la societe libre et democratique / Louise Rolland
      13. Judicial Opinion Writing / Gerald E. Le Dain
      14. Engaged Professionalism / Rosemary Cairns Way
      15. "One Judge Down" / Bonnie Brown
      16. Cases Argued, Cases Decided, and Scholarly Writing of Gerald Le Dain / G. Blaine Baker.
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