University of Toronto Law Journal
academic journal
The University of Toronto Law Journal is a law review published by University of Toronto Press. It was established in 1935 by William Paul McClure Kennedy.
History
The journal was established in 1935 "under the insistent prompting of Dean W.P.M. Kennedy". Kennedy viewed it as a means to pursue his view of legal scholarship as a form of social science, as opposed to a way to meet the needs of legal practitioners. Donna Greschner describes the review under Kennedy's leadership as an "explicitly academic journal jointly published by faculty and students".
The journal was the second law review based at a Canadian university. The first was the Alberta Law Quarterly, published from 1934 to 1944, and revived in 1955 as the Alberta Law Review. As of its establishment, the University of Toronto Law Journal was released annually each February.
In 1955, F.E. La Brie was named the journal's editor-in-chief. Ronald St.
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