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BSc 1981, LLB (Dalhousie) 1985, LLM (Calif; Berkeley) 1992, PhD (ANU) 1999 Called to the Bars of Nova Scotia (1986) and Ontario (2003). Before joining the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary as Dean in 2011, Dr. Holloway was the Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario, completing his second five-year term as Dean of Western Law on June 30, 2011. Before that appointment he was the Associate Dean at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He is also an alumnus of the Advanced Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Management and completed the Leadership 21 Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Before beginning his academic career, Dean Holloway spent a number of years in private practice in Halifax with the Atlantic Canadian law firm McInnes Cooper, focusing on labour, administrative and admiralty law. He also served as the Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada. Dean Holloway was appointed a Nova Scotia Queen's Counsel (QC) in December 2005. Dean Holloway's teaching and research interests are in the areas of administrative law and legal history. In 1999, he was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2003, he was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, and in 2005 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel.

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A New Concord Between Bar and Academy? The Governor General’s Speech to the Canadian Bar Association

August 23rd, 2011

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It is hardly an everyday occurrence for a viceroy to call publicly for a meeting with law deans to talk about legal education. But that is exactly what happened last week in Halifax. In his speech to the annual conference of the Canadian Bar Association, Governor General David Johnston spoke extremely candidly about what he saw as the challenges facing the legal profession today. He did not mince words; the picture he painted of the reality of legal practice in Canada was not soothing. And he laid a stark challenge before all of us who claim to believe that lawyers are the key to the survival of the rule of law. Read the rest of this entry »

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