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The Canadian chapter brings together two reports, covering Quebec and the common law provinces of the country. In Quebec, a mixed jurisdiction, there has always been a particular awareness of the challenge of how to train students in both the common law and civil law, a history, the Quebec report finds, that has facilitated and furthered an internationalisation of legal education beyond the exigencies of Canadian bijuralism. The report on the common law provinces, however, diagnoses a lack of a similar mindset in common law Canada. Beyond this difference, in both common and civil law provinces, more and more opportunities are opening up for Canadian law students to add international components to their educational experience. The unified conclusion of the authors is that internationalisation should not only be perceived as including more inter and supranational topics in the curriculum or offering a more intense training of the skills necessitated by ‘global lawyering’. Properly understood, internationalisation would also include the creation of awareness of the economic and cultural implications of the phenomenon of ‘globalisation’ and of an understanding of legal pluralism as a manifestation of the phenomena of globalisation and migration in a domestic context.
Reporting for the Common Law provinces: Aline Grenon
Reporting for Quebec: Helge Dedek
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The Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon.
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Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan.
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University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, Dalhousie University, Lakehead University, University of Manitoba, Université de Moncton, University of New Brunswick, University of Ottawa, Queen’s University, University of Saskatchewan, Thompson Rivers University, University of Toronto, Trinity Western University, University of Victoria, University of Western Ontario, University of Windsor, and York University (Osgoode Hall Law School). Of these, three schools have only recently been created: Thompson Rivers University (first graduating class: 2014), Lakehead University (expected date of first graduating class: 2016), and Trinity Western University (not yet operational; expected date of first graduating class: 2019).
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Université Laval, McGill University, Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, and Université de Sherbrooke.
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In Quebec, with the exception of law schools offering common law programs, the faculties of law continue to have much autonomy, exercised in on going consultation with the Barreau du Québec and the Office des professions du Québec.
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The term ‘Aboriginal law’ is ambiguous in that it may refer to Indigenous legal systems and practices but also, and more commonly, to that branch of state law concerned with the particular rights and status of Canada’s Indigenous peoples vis-à-vis the Government, including but not limited to land- and water-use rights set out in treaties concluded between First Nations and the Crown (i.e., the Government of Canada, and previously England),
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The sections thus pertaining to either Quebec or the common law provinces reflect the views of the respective reporters.
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University of Alberta, University of Calgary, Dalhousie University, University of Manitoba, Université de Moncton, University of New Brunswick, Queen’s University, University of Saskatchewan, University of Victoria, and University of Western Ontario (see Grenon 2015).
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Grenon, A., Glenn, H.P., Dedek, H. (2016). The Global Challenge in Common and Civil Law Contexts: A Canadian Perspective. In: Jamin, C., van Caenegem, W. (eds) The Internationalisation of Legal Education. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29125-3_5
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