Educating for the profession : law at Canterbury, 1873-1973 / Jeremy Finn.
2010
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Title
Educating for the profession : law at Canterbury, 1873-1973 / Jeremy Finn.
Published
Christchurch, N.Z. : Canterbury University Press, 2010.
Call Number
KUQ53.C36 F56 2010
ISBN
9781877257841 (paperback)
1877257842 (paperback)
1877257842 (paperback)
Description
216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)569071146
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-205) and index.
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Gift of Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Gift of Prof. Jane C. Ginsburg
Table of Contents
Preface
9
Introduction
11
ch. 1
The First Years: An intermission and a new beginning 1873-1881
15
Charles James Foster
17
Jurisprudence at Canterbury
20
The LLB and LLD
21
The new beginning
23
ch. 2
The Single-Teacher Law Department 1882-1911
25
External examinations
27
The lectureships of G. T. Weston and T. A. Murphy
28
Canterbury's brief spell as the largest law department
32
Stella Henderson
35
Student numbers
37
The law student body
38
The first assistant lecturers
40
ch. 3
A Dual Qualification System
42
LLB and the Law Professional examinations
42
Changes to the LLB
44
Lawyers with incomplete degrees
47
ch. 4
War, Boom, Royal Commission and the CLE 1912-1931
50
Student numbers and the impact of the Great War
50
The 1920s and a flourishing department
51
Faculties and teaching rearrangements 1922-31
55
The `law library'
58
Prizes and medals
59
The 1925 Royal Commission on University Education
59
Public debate on legal education
63
ch. 5
Depression, Recovery and Another War 1931-1945
65
Staffing and the call for a Professor of Law
66
Kenneth Macfarlane Gresson
67
Personalities of the late 1930s
70
Prizes
72
Reform and change: The LLB revisited
73
Wartime contraction
77
ch. 6
Postwar Expansion and Beyond 1946-1956
79
The push for improved pay and conditions
81
Personnel changes
84
Why teach?
88
The controversy over the non-law component
90
ch. 7
Linking, Drinking and Thinking: The Law Students' Society
91
Fun and games
91
An educational aspect
94
Mooting
95
ch. 8
Hamish Gray and the Birth of an Academic Discipline of Law 1957-1963
97
Staff comings and goings
99
Professor Hamish Gray
101
A growth in student numbers
106
ch. 9
Law Clerks or Law Students?
107
The life of a law clerk
108
The end of the `law clerk' era
113
The changing student body
114
Women students
116
Maori, Pacific and overseas students
119
Graduate entrants to law and double-degree students
120
A conservative group
121
ch. 10
Studying and Learning Law
122
Physical facilities
122
Lecture notes and learning by rote
123
Using the library---or not
124
The first tutorials
126
Extramural study
127
The Latin requirement
128
Roman Law
129
A new introductory course
130
The non-law component
132
Postgraduate degrees
133
The heyday of the LLM
136
ch. 11
The Long Struggle over External Examining
138
1920s and the royal commission
138
Algie and the 1930s debate
139
The debate in the CLE 1939-1946
142
McGechan's push for internal examining
144
University initiatives and ensuing opposition
145
The CLE---and Canterbury--- resist change
148
The 1960 compromise
148
Students' attitudes
150
ch. 12
The Full-time `Academic' Law School 1964-73
153
A growing roll---and attrition by examination failure
153
The creation of a full-time lecturing staff
154
Three professors
156
The burgeoning workload
159
The growing student voice
160
Reforming the degree (again)
161
A culture change
162
Conclusion---and a Prospect
164
Appendix 1
Teaching staff of the Canterbury Law Department 1873-1973
168
Appendix 2
Canterbury law graduates
170
Endnotes
179
Sources
201
Index
207