Looking Forward by Looking Back
75 Years of Modern Legal Education at the University of Toronto
Published on 25. November 2025
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-0498-0513-9 (ISBN)
Description
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, this book brings together a wealth of legal scholarship first presented at a conference in March 2025.
At the time of its creation, the Faculty of Law reconceptualized legal education in Ontario and beyond. Looking Forward by Looking Back pays homage to the visions of key figures in the school's history such as founding dean Cecil "Caesar" Augustus Wright, Katherine Swinton, and John Willis among many other leading lights within the faculty. Embarking on a journey of exploration and reflection, the contributors to this volume look forward by looking back at the transformation charted by the school and its faculty. The contributors depict how the examined scholars consistently developed approaches to legal and social issues that were not only innovative and influential when first introduced but that continue to be insightful and generative in our evolving world.
Essential reading for law professors, practitioners, and students, Looking Forward by Looking Back calls attention to the rich history of legal wisdom that emerged from the Faculty of Law and its sustained impact.
At the time of its creation, the Faculty of Law reconceptualized legal education in Ontario and beyond. Looking Forward by Looking Back pays homage to the visions of key figures in the school's history such as founding dean Cecil "Caesar" Augustus Wright, Katherine Swinton, and John Willis among many other leading lights within the faculty. Embarking on a journey of exploration and reflection, the contributors to this volume look forward by looking back at the transformation charted by the school and its faculty. The contributors depict how the examined scholars consistently developed approaches to legal and social issues that were not only innovative and influential when first introduced but that continue to be insightful and generative in our evolving world.
Essential reading for law professors, practitioners, and students, Looking Forward by Looking Back calls attention to the rich history of legal wisdom that emerged from the Faculty of Law and its sustained impact.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-0498-0513-9 (9781049805139)
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Persons
Jutta Brunnee is dean of the Faculty of Law and James Marshall Tory Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.
Christopher Essert is a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Christopher Essert is a professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
Content
Introduction: Seventy-five Years of Legal Education and Scholarship at the 'Modern' Faculty of Law
Jutta Brunnee and Christopher Essert
1. A Pragmatist Approach to the Administrative State: A New Interpretation of John Willis's 'three Approaches to Administrative Law'
Mariana Mota Prado
2. Richard Charles Bosworth (Dick) Risk: Maker of Canadian Legal History
Jim Phillips
3. Multidisciplinary Marty Friedland, Miscarriages of Justice, and the Modern Law School
Kent Roach
4. Professor Alan Mewett on Morality and the Criminal Law
Brenda Cossman
5. Some Leading Themes in the Contract Scholarship of Stephen Waddams
Peter Benson
6. The Law's Own Terms
Arthur Ripstein
7. Trebilcock and Trade-offs
Edward M Iacobucci
8. 'More Legal Theory Than I Thought': Robert Sharpe and Legal Scholarship
Hamish Stewart
9. On Living Federal Lives: Katherine Swinton's The Supreme Court and Canadian Federalism and the Future of Federal Imagination
Jean-Christophe Bedard-Rubin
10. Denise Reaume and the Women's Court Of Canada: Feminist Judgment Projects and Rewriting Pierson v Post
Angela Fernandez
11. Transforming Spousal Support from the Ground Up: Carol Rogerson and the Development of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines
Martha Shaffer
12. Individual Freedom and the Supremacy of Law: Alan Brudner on Criminal Justice
Malcolm Thorburn
13. Gender Equality, AI, and the Future of Human Rights
Anna Su
14. A Rule-of-law Compliant Reading of Section 33: The Continuing Relevance of Lorraine Weinrib's Public Law Scholarship
Richard Stacey
Jutta Brunnee and Christopher Essert
1. A Pragmatist Approach to the Administrative State: A New Interpretation of John Willis's 'three Approaches to Administrative Law'
Mariana Mota Prado
2. Richard Charles Bosworth (Dick) Risk: Maker of Canadian Legal History
Jim Phillips
3. Multidisciplinary Marty Friedland, Miscarriages of Justice, and the Modern Law School
Kent Roach
4. Professor Alan Mewett on Morality and the Criminal Law
Brenda Cossman
5. Some Leading Themes in the Contract Scholarship of Stephen Waddams
Peter Benson
6. The Law's Own Terms
Arthur Ripstein
7. Trebilcock and Trade-offs
Edward M Iacobucci
8. 'More Legal Theory Than I Thought': Robert Sharpe and Legal Scholarship
Hamish Stewart
9. On Living Federal Lives: Katherine Swinton's The Supreme Court and Canadian Federalism and the Future of Federal Imagination
Jean-Christophe Bedard-Rubin
10. Denise Reaume and the Women's Court Of Canada: Feminist Judgment Projects and Rewriting Pierson v Post
Angela Fernandez
11. Transforming Spousal Support from the Ground Up: Carol Rogerson and the Development of the Spousal Support Advisory Guidelines
Martha Shaffer
12. Individual Freedom and the Supremacy of Law: Alan Brudner on Criminal Justice
Malcolm Thorburn
13. Gender Equality, AI, and the Future of Human Rights
Anna Su
14. A Rule-of-law Compliant Reading of Section 33: The Continuing Relevance of Lorraine Weinrib's Public Law Scholarship
Richard Stacey