Advocate Jan 2014

THE ADVOCATE VOL. 72 PART 1 JANUARY 2014
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UVIC LAW
FACULTY NEWS
By Jeremy Webber*
The Law Centre is the flagship legal clinic at the University of Victoria. Each
year, almost 40 per cent of our students serve a semester at that clinic
alone—and the Law Centre is one of four experiential learning opportunities
at UVic (the others being the Environmental Law Clinic, the Business
Law Clinic and the Co-op Program). In 2013 its director, Glenn Gallins, Q.C.,
received the CBA’s Georges A. Goyer, Q.C. Memorial Award for Distinguished
Service for his many contributions.
The Law Centre serves a very important role for our students and indeed
for the community at large. What follows is an account by Alyssa Holland
(J.D. 2013), winner of the William R. McIntyre Medal. Alyssa is now clerking
at the Federal Court of Appeal. She will clerk at the Supreme Court of
Canada in 2014–15.
THE LAW CENTRE: RAISING THE BAR ON LEGAL EDUCATION
By Alyssa Holland
I never expected to find my ideal job while I was still in law school.
And yet, in the last semester of third year, I found myself doing work
I cared about, making regular court appearances and learning from
mentors and colleagues that I admired. In short, I was living a law student’s
dream.
It was January 2013, and I and eleven other law students had
walked out of our classrooms and into the Law Centre, a legal clinic
operated by the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. Led by the tire-
* Jeremy Webber is the dean of law at UVic, where he is also the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society.