In the Media

More Aboriginal students needed in Ontario law schools: academics

Interview with Adam Fiddler and Dean EagleWoman and others about Aboriginal representation amongst law students in Ontario

Adam Fiddler: Radio host, First Nation chief - and now a law school grad

Interview with one of the 58 new law school graduates

First Aboriginal woman to head Canadian law school lives up to her name

Article on Dean Angelique Eaglewoman

First Aboriginal woman appointed as dean of Canadian law school

The first aboriginal woman appointed to head a Canadian law school says the next generation of lawyers will better understand and help restore the country’s relationship with indigenous peoples.

Interview with Incoming Dean Angelique EagleWoman

Host Lisa Laco interviews incoming Dean Angelique EagleWoman after her appointment as Dean

Angelique EagleWoman named new faculty of law dean for LU

Article about the announcement of Dean Angelique EagleWoman's appointment

News item regarding appointment of Dean Angelique EagleWoman

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Law Schools ponder how to teach Aboriginal law

Includes reference to our Faculty's innovative curriculum and quote from Prof. Karen Drake

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Aboriginal Lawyers hopeful about the future of indigenous law in Canada

Interview with three aboriginal lawyers, who are themselves at the forefront of pushing for change, including our Prof. Karen Drake. 

CBC Radio's The Current Program

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Providing high-quality service to indigenous clients

Article quotes Prof. Karen Drake

LawPro Magazine

Noton Rose donation to aid disadvantaged students

Norton Rose has made a significant donation to support the Wilson Moot team at Lakehead University, as well as set up a scholarship for disadvantaged students.

Canadian Lawyer Magazine

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Mention of Lakehead Legal Aid clinic opening

Law Times newspaper

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Lakehead Legal Aid clinic opening soon

Television interview with Lakehead Legal Services clinic Director Kimberley Gagan and 3rd year student Ryan Green about the new clinic

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Lakehead Legal Aid Clinic

CBC Radio's Superior Morning host Lisa Laco interviews Lakehead Legal Services clinic Director Kimberley Gagan, and 3rd year student Ryan Green about the opening of the clinic.

New student legal aid clinic opening in Thunder Bay

Article talks about Lakehead Legal Services opening in the law school this summer.

Shortage of articling positions for students hasn't change, Law Society says

Article looks at articling in Ontario, as well as the LPP program after 1 year. Mentions Lakehead's innovative Integrated Practice Curriculum as a positive alternative to articling.

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Traditional versus Conventional treatments 

CBC Radio's Superior Morning program talks to our Dr. Mariette Brennan about traditional vs conventional medical treatments and the law around this.

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Kinks in the Line

Professor Jason Maclean quoted in article about pipeline approvals

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Lakehead students raise $400 for First Nation maple syrup producers

Maple syrup producers on Fort William First Nation, in northwestern Ontario, are getting some financial help from the Indigenous Law Students Association at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay.

The association raised $400 through a pancake lunch.

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The LSUC met in Thunder Bay, looking at their report "Addressing Challenges Faced by Racialized Licensees"

2L student Samantha Ramage was interviewed for the news segment; The committee is looking for feedback from lawyers and law students to investigate challenges faced by racialized lawyers.

To learn more about the report, see the Law Society of Upper Canada's website here.

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Law School Impact

Dean Lee Stuesser updates the law school's impact on Thunder Bay and updates host Lisa Laco on things happening within the school over the past 1 1/2 year.

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Going Small

"... Lakehead University’s new law school in Thunder Bay, Ont., focuses on training lawyers to work in rural and remote areas of the province. It provides an experiential training approach offering practical training that other young lawyers obtain through articling or the LPP."

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Thunder Bay residents need to push climate change issue, professor says

Professor Jason MacLean, climate change, and Thunder Bay's preparation

Spirit Canoe webisode

A conversation with professor Karen Drake of Lakehead University Faculty of Law and law students Adam Fiddler, Misbah Haque and Tanya Muthusamipillai. We discuss the recent Aboriginal Students Conference on the 250th anniversary of the Treaty of Niagara 1764 and other topics.

Overview of the Aboriginal Student Law Conference (Video)

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"Culture Change" needed in way law schools assess, revise curriculum: Holloway

"He [Holloway] sees Lakehead University at one end of the pendulum, with its innovative approach..."

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Special Legal Rights

Karen Drake is a professor at Lakehead's Law School and an expert in Aboriginal law. She's giving a public talk that asks why Aboriginal rights exist, and why they're important.

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Lakehead's Faculty of Law named in honour of former Chief Justice Bora Laskin

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Review of beginning of second year of Lakehead law school (Video)

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Bill Mullins-Johnson speaks to law students about his experience with wrongful conviction of his niece (Video)

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Sault Ste. Marie man shares story of wrongful conviction (Audio)

Bill Mullins-Johnson spoke to a riveted auditorium of all our students and also shared his story with Up North CBC radio program

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Coverage of the Faculty of Law being renamed to the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law (Video)

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New web site for law students strikes the right balance

Quotes Tara Hum, a 2L at Lakehead Law

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The new faces of law school in Canada

"Steusser feels Canadian law schools have become too focused on legal theory rather than practice, putting grads at a disadvantage. “We are a professional school in the full sense of the word, and we don’t shy away from that,” he said. “I don’t think the status quo is acceptable these days, and I hope students would demand more for the amount of money they are putting into their programs.”"

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Law School in Canada: What will it cost?

Featuring a photo of some of our students!

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Thunder Bay is ready for take-off. Here's why young lawyers should care.

Quotes Dean Stuesser, Prof. Karen Drake and a few students

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Law prof pressures may be barrier to preparing law students for new reality of lawyering

Quotes Dean Stuesser throughout the article including: "But what does, or should, innovation mean? “We should look broader at what lawyering is about now in the 21st century,” says Stuesser."

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Northern Original by Philip Bryden

"Thunder Bay, Ont., is the hometown of two of Canada’s most distinguished and original legal thinkers: Bora Laskin and Paul Weiler. So perhaps we should not be surprised that what could be characterized as the most radical change to university legal education in Canada in a generation, the “integrated practice curriculum” of Lakehead University’s new JD program, originated in Thunder Bay."

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The changing landscape of legal education in Canada by Philip Bryden

"...its [the LSUC] approval of Lakehead’s Integrated Practice Program as equivalents to articling are simply way stations on the road to the abolition of articling requirements and the assumption by law schools of the professional preparation mandate previously undertaken by law societies."

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The Evolution of Legal Education (Cover Story of 4Students edition)

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Licensing Version 2.0

Comparative look at the LPP at Ryerson & U Ottawa and Lakehead's new Integrated Practice Curriculum

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Lakehead grads can practice without articling

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Articling is no longer mandatory in Ontario

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Dean Stuesser shares that half the class comes from Northern Ontario - meeting the mandate behind the law school's development

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Dean Stuesser discusses with CBC Thunder Bay how Lakehead's new law school will help increase access to justice

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