September Issue

THE LEGAL EYE Sep Vol. 9 No. 1

In this issue:An Interview with Dean Bobinski... Pages 1, 4, 8An Open Letter to the Dean.... Law Student Campus Travel Guide... Page 2, 7Top Ten Tips for 1Ls... Page 3PBSC, Do it for Free... Pages 3, 6UBC Outlaws... Page 4Google: “Peter Allard”... Page 5Welcome from Law Career Services Office... Page 6A Little Career Advice... Page 7

An Interview with Dean Bobinski BY CHRISTINA GRAY, LAW II

On August 24th, the Legal Eye was fortunate enough to receive a tour of the new law school with the Dean Mary Anne Bobinski before its official opening. We put on our hard hats and steel toed boots and went for a walk around the new 4-story building. Dur-ing this tour we discussed the vision of the new law school and what it took to have the new building constructed.

TLE: How do you see the new law school as part of UBC?

DB: The building stands at a major entrance to UBC. The theory of the building is that the wings of the building form two “arms” that reach out to the community. The idea is that we’re a ma-jour entrance to the university, law is the most inter-disciplinary of disciplines, and the building provides a path through which knowledge and research from across the university can be con-nected to the external community.

The first floor of the building is designed as a crossroads and a place of engagement with the community with the Forum’s meet-

An Open Letter to the DeanBY ALEX HUDSON, LAW II

Having recently been self-appointed to represent the student body, I picked up a clipboard, put a hardhat on my head, donned a colourful sash, and undertook an inspection of our freshly hal-lowed Allard Hall. I must admit, it’s not bad - a marked improve-ment over the concrete pit of sorrows in which untold generations laboured, that cruel and sulphurous place where students wrapped themselves in asbestos to stay warm during winter’s bitter cold. Classes would often end early as a giant rat dragged the professor off screaming into the darkness. Legends tell of a brave young boy named Frank Iacobucci who slew the King of the Rats and, as a reward from a grateful Prime Minister, was raised to the Supreme Court of Canada. Thereby allowing him to moonlight as a mall Santa and eventually save-up enough to buy a pretty decent boat.

While I am not ungrateful, it behooves me to inform you that my building inspection revealed a number of critical omissions that must be rectified immediately. Yesterday, at 4:30AM, I had the courtesy to go to Dean Bobinski’s home and present her with this list, but as she has yet to implement a single recommendation (or listen to the mixtape I made her) I have no choice but to publish it here.

Recommended Additions to Allard Hall:• Giant animatronic Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin to greet

visitors every 6 and a 1/2 minutes

• An American Gladiator-style obstacle course that students may attempt in lieu of exams, essays, and doing the readings

• Fire poles in classrooms for discrete escapes when a fellow student asks a long-winded question thirty seconds before the lecture ends

• Ball pit for when the 1Ls have recess (upper years prefer to smoke under the bleachers)

• Aqueduct to channel students’ stress-sweat and tears into a generator turbine, to provide power to most of the Lower Main-land

• Co-ed bathrooms, just like on the charming legal sitcom To Kill a Mockingbird

ing space as the central core. The Forum is a central space for conferences and events focused on issues that affect society.

TLE: When you started in 2003, did you envision building a new law school?

DB: It was one of the things I discovered in the dean’s search

Photo by Christina Gray

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NEWS2BY ALEX BLONDIN, LAW III

With a kind heart, we of the second and third year welcome the new 1Ls to UBC Law. Whether you come from another country or from across the street upon you have may have recognized the uselessness of your undergraduate degree. Rest as-sured that you will soon feel right at home.

To help you along the way, I’ve selflessly donned my travel-journalist hat, stylish ascot, and rainbow-spotted umbrella to log a typical UBC Law routine around campus, thus providing newcomers with a basic travel guide.

6:30am – Bus LoopThe Bus Loop, for transit commuters,

connects the otherwise-isolated UBC cam-pus to the rest of the city through a thor-ough network of buses. Travellers should note that U-Passes are now dispensed monthly from the Bookstore, rather than mailed out each term. Warning: when it rains, poor drainage at the bus loop often leads to conditions of sudden flash floods.

6:35am – Student Recreation Centre & Aquatic Centre

These two buildings (located W-adjacent-

Law Student Campus Travel Guideto and SW of the Bus Loop respectively) host fitness services for students on cam-pus. The Rec Centre has aerobics classes, a range of pick-up sports, and the UBC Birdcoop Fitness Centre has a weightlifting gym which – for a very cheap $25 a term – is incredibly crowded at any time of the day. The Aquatic Centre has an indoor and outdoor swimming pool available for you sexy swimmer types (PS: text me xoxo).

8:00am – Student Union Building The SUB is the hub of the campus at

UBC, which provides nearly everything one may need throughout the day. Several restaurants, pubs, shops, and services adorn the ground and basement levels. You can find avocado rolls from Honour Roll, Xerox machines, and a lesser extent - pizza. Other points of interest include the On The Fringe hair salon, the stu-dent medical insurance office, the Norm Theatre, and the Outpost supply shop and post office.

9:00am – Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

[redacted] Due to the average law stu-dent’s intense dislike of SNAILS (Students Not Actually In Law), and the readily

available services in the new law school building, all other campus libraries are moot.

9:30am – Allard HallAfter two years of enduring cramped,

windowless rooms with faulty temperature control and electric outlets countable on one hand, the new building is complete. Among its many amenities, it boasts a new library, open spaces for comparing sum-mer jobs and belittling classmates, a moot court, and (one can hope) a café that will stay open past 3pm. Travellers will enjoy the stunning views from eternally rain-streaked windows.

12:30pm – Student Union Building Wading to the SUB for food and another

dose of caffeine, the astute traveller will note the endless rain and rising waters now lapping at their ankles. Rubber boots are suggested, or at the very least pack an extra pair of socks.

12:40pm – UBC BookstoreWe all make mistakes – I, for example,

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NEWS 3Top Ten Tips for 1Ls PBSC, DO IT

FOR FREEBY SIMON LIN, LAW II

Congratulations for making it to the starting line and welcome to law school. The experience of 1L was exciting and full of pressure. The most important advice I have is not to panic. Here are some tips that I would have found useful as a 1L student.

1. Take Advantage of Academic Re-sources. There are countless numbers of academic resources. Below are some that I found most useful.

a) Professors are a great resource for the substantive course material and exam writing strategies. Some professors prefer students answering exam questions in a particular way. The best way to find out is to ask the professor. They are always ready to help. Just ask! And be sure to ask early, not the week (or the night) before the exam.

b) Classmates are one of the most impor-tant resources in your law school career. Law school is just like high school where we try to help each other learn the ma-terials. Some students have formal study groups but study groups might not be the best studying technique for everyone. Even if you do not form/join a study group, you should ask a classmate if you have any questions. If a classmate asks you any questions you will benefit a lot by answer-ing those questions, it just helps with your own understanding of the materials.

c) Condensed Annotated Notes (“CANs”) are notes that were created by law students. Look at CANs from the Law Student So-ciety’s website, even if you are planning to build your own, but beware they might be slightly outdated.

“The process of making the CAN is what helps you learn the materials,” Professor Nikos Harris iterated in his 2011 Summer Evidence class.

d) Upper-Year Students. If you signed-up for a legal buddy, ask them questions. Le-gal buddies are an incredible resource for study tips and CANs. The Faculty also have a peer-tutoring program where upper-year students tutor some 1L students.

e) Practice exams. Download exams from

the library website and practice. You won’t get a good mark if you can’t write an exam properly.

2. Structured Study Schedules. Set aside a specific time in the week strictly for reading, studying and reviewing the course materials. Remember to leave Friday after-noons open for the Bzzr-ups.

3. Falling behind in class is the most dreadful experience. You cannot make good use of the class-time if you are falling behind, you just won’t understand what the Professor is talking about. If you absolutely have no time to do all the readings, at least read a CAN or a summary to understand generally what the class will be about.

4. Attend the lunch information sessions. There are information sessions held almost every day at the law school. You will defi-nitely see a lot of information sessions by various clubs, employers and the Career Services Office (“CSO”). Sometimes free pizza lunch is offered too.

5. Career Services Office. The friendly CSO staff are there to help us with the job hunt. They can give advice on career plans, resumes, cover letters and interview skills.

6. Extra-curricular Activities. Be sure to sit down and carefully think about which extra-curricular activities you are most interested in. School work will take up a lot of time, so pick the extra-curricular activities that interest you the most, so you can be as dedicated to those as you would like to be..

7. Life other than law school. Keep up with your non-law friends and other ac-tivities. It will help you keep a fresh mind.

8. December Exams. Take them as seri-ously as the April exams. Even though the December exams only count towards your mark if they help your overall score, they are definitely helpful for preparing for the April exams.

9. Note taking. If you are planning to use a computer, be sure to find a lightweight and reliable computer. Always keep back-ups of your data.

10. Develop your own studying strategy. When you receive the December grades, you will have the opportunity to find out if your strategy works and then can modify it prior to writing your April exams.

BY LAURA HAWES, LAW III & SHANNON FENRICH, LAW II

Every September, idealistic law students begin their 1L year at UBC with the same dream - to go to law school and change the world. However, a crippling student debt and the fear of living in a cardboard box can make the big firm route incredibly appealing. Don’t worry! Volunteering with Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) can help keep you on the right track! Regard-less of whether you go on to work in the public interest, your law school experience with pro bono work will continue to ben-efit you throughout your career.

PBSC is a student run organization that provides law students with opportuni-ties to use their legal skills outside of the classroom. Placements are available with a diverse range of community groups, public interest organizations, legal clinics, and lawyers doing pro bono work. We partner with organizations that provide invalu-able assistance to vulnerable communities in BC. These organizations have a huge unmet need for legal service.

As a law student working with one of these organizations, you will be ‘mak-ing the world a better place’ by providing legal service and assistance, while adding amazing experience to your resume. While volunteering with PBSC, you will benefit from the opportunity to network with various public interest organizations, and their supervising lawyers. Some of you will be surprised to find out that regard-less of whether you end up working in the public interest or with a big firm, you can continue to work in a pro bono capacity. Many big firms have established pro bono policies, and value students who have experience in the public interest sector. Establishing contacts in this field now will provide you with invaluable opportuni-ties when you eventually get out of the whirlpool of despondency that we call law school.


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BY ALEX BLONDIN, LAW III

The OUTlaws is the club for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgendered, and queer) law students. It serves as more than just an excuse to drink martinis in crisp stylish suits with fellow queer students, faculty, and lawyers. The OUTlaws host events for both students and the Vancouver legal community. These ca-sual events provide a great way to mingle, network, and to make new friends and connections.

For more information, keep an eye out for our recruitment event during Orientation Week, on Facebook, or email at [email protected]

UBC OUTlaws

process, that the school had a building project. The university didn’t actually know we had a building project. It had fallen through the cracks. Looking around, you could tell that there was a problem with the physical infrastructure of the building.

TLE: Would you envision this building to be renovated or added upon in the future?

DB: We tried to design a very flexible structure because we lived through the 1970s and 1950s buildings. We worked with the architects to create flexible space. For example, we didn’t know how much room we would need in the library decades into the future. We tried to create the library in a flexible way, because there may be move away from paper books. The library space can be changed into classroom space or office space in the future.

TLE: How did the students and faculty work together to choose architects?

DB: There is a Board of Governor’s process for the selection of the architects that we followed. We worked with students, fac-ulty and staff to develop a plan of what we thought we needed in the building and the university established an architect selection process that attracted a number of different firms from across Canada. The finalists were able to present their vision of the new law school building. Diamond & Schmitt and CEI, a local architect firm, came out of that process.

We were in quite a fortunate position because usually building projects have to have all their funding in place before they will allow a new project to move forward and before they will knock the old building down. The university had the confidence that we would find a way to pay for the new building and they let us move forward. We had to be cost conscious and to focus on nec-essary building functions. Construction costs were very high at one point in the pre-Olympics period. The architects went back to the drawing board and changed some aspects of the build-ing to reduce the building costs, which were projected at $67M compared to the final cost of $56M.

TLE: (Looking around) There are way more electrical outlets.

DB: It’s a bit of a debate. You could tell that battery life has got-ten a lot better, but probably we’ll look around at these plugs and say, “we’ve got too many outlets” because battery life will be much better.

TLE: One of the questions that students have is about exams and one day having the opportunity to take exams on computers.

DB: Associate Dean, David Duff, and the Director of Student

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5Google: “Peter Allard”

BY ERIC GAUF, LAW III

Welcome to the UBC Faculty of Law at Allard Hall! At least, I think that’s the official formulation that the faculty worked out with the Barbados-based philanthropist who provided a massive $11.86 million gift to UBC and the law school. This generous gift by Allard, of which $9.825m will be put towards the build-ing’s $56m total cost, is sufficient to acquire the naming rights to the new law building. Allard’s gift will also be used to establish a significant annual prize for international integrity, using $1.75 million as seed money, as well as to sponsor projects relating to the history of the law school itself. This gift puts Allard in second place amongst the school’s many donors, behind the Law Founda-tion of BC, which had provided matching funds during the main fundraising campaign drive for a total of $12 million.

Naming buildings after donors is a long-established practice, and it is now an accepted fact of modern education funding that ab-solutely every room that can be named will be named after some donor, or held open for anyone who subsequently donates enough money. Declining capital investment by governments and awk-ward institutional investment strategies have led to an increased need to finance new facilities by soliciting private donations.

Luckily for the Faculty of Law, our graduates are on the upper end of the wealth distribution curve, and have been generous.

In any case, the point of this article isn’t to fulminate against the system, but rather to spare everyone the tedium of running their own Google search for “Peter Allard,” since at the time this article was written, he lacked a Wikipedia article. In short, who is this Allard guy whose name is on our building?

There’s not much information out there about Peter Allard. The first page of the search results are almost entirely filled with news stories about Allard’s philanthropy, mostly about the gift to the law school. Allard was apparently the 5th-ranked member of the “Most Influential Canadian Expat” list in 2009, behind Neil Young, Tony Burman, Wayne Gretzky, and the victorious actor Michael J. Fox.

Allard’s previous philanthropic projects in Canada appear to have concentrated on providing medical equipment to research and training hospitals. Outside of Canada, Allard’s focus has been assembling parcels of land in the Caribbean for use as wildlife sanctuaries, most prominently in Barbados. By his own estimate, Allard has poured US$35 million into conservation efforts at the Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary.

Where did the money come from? The pot has probably grown through Peter’s investments, but the initial source of the wealth seems to be his father, Charles Allard, who was a surgeon-turned-developer in Edmonton, Alberta. Details about Charles are also

scarce on the internet, but it looks like he built the bulk of his wealth in real-estate development in the late 60s and 70s, during Alberta’s oil boom. Charles later sold off his development com-pany in 1980 for $130 million.

Charles had a fairly diverse business portfolio as he: ran a small airline, started a radio station in 1965, and founded the TV sta-tion CITV in 1974, which was a major independent station in Ed-monton until its purchase by Shaw / Global in 2000. He was also one of the original owners of the Edmonton Oilers, before their sale to Nelson Skalbania, who flipped the team to the infamous Peter Pocklington. Given that Charles didn’t retire from medical practice until stepping down as chief surgeon at the Edmonton General Hospital in 1969, he must have been a very busy guy.

Charles died in 1991, leaving the bulk of his wealth to his twin sons Peter and Charles, their sister, and possibly other siblings who have made fewer waves on the internet. In any case, Charles kept up the family business, which appears to have mostly become a cable TV enterprise, and Peter left his law practice to Barba-dos. As a fellow Edmonton native, I can’t really blame him: tax implications aside, if my father leaves me any cash (instead of his stated goal of an empty bank account and some travel photos), I’m heading somewhere tropical too.

The few other scraps about Peter on the internet relate to his activities in Barbados. After shifting his home to Barbados in or around 1993, Peter began working towards collecting land and establishing a wildlife sanctuary and nature preserve in the island’s last mangrove forest. This effort became deeply ensnared with local politics, and has repeatedly ended up in court, in many different venues, from Barbados, to Ontario, to the Privy Council. At present, the formal certification of the Graeme Hall Sanctu-aryas a national park appears to be firmly stalled. There’s a pair of competing blogs on the matter, one which backs Allard and the other of which tears him down, but since those blogs have themselves been the subject of litigation, we’ll leave the discussion at that. Allard’s view of the matter is available on the Graeme Hall website.

As far as names to bear, I’m pretty satisfied with what I’ve found. Our titular donor is second, third-generation wealth at most, and it looks to have been made fairly clean from illegality and scandal. He’s personally tried his hardest to force a disreputable govern-ment to enforce its own environmental regulations, and he’s also endowed an annual prize for International Integrity. The press releases from the university haven’t done the guy justice – accord-ing to Google, he’s a pretty stand-up guy.

every room that can be named will be named after some donor

Career Connection6Welcome from the Law Career Services Office

BY PAMELA CYR & JENNIFER LAU

The Career Services team would like to welcome the incoming first year class and welcome back the second and third year students to Allard Hall. We look forward to assisting you with your career goals.

Who we areThe CSO team includes Pamela Cyr (Di-

rector), Jennifer Lau (Associate Director), Tracy Wachmann (Public Interest Coordi-nator), and Lance Sy (Program Assistant).

Pam, Jenn, and Tracy are all previously practicing lawyers who look forward to us-ing their experience and knowledge to as-sist students with exploring and achieving the many career opportunities made pos-sible by a law degree.

Pam has worked with the Career Services Office at UBC for over three years. Before this time, she practiced law in Vancouver for 7 years. She summered, articled and practiced general corporate-commercial litigation. Pam was also a member of the Student Committee of a large national firm for two years before joining a leading Van-couver boutique litigation firm.

Pam has been involved in mentoring stu-dents for some time, and continues to vol-unteer at the Vancouver Holocaust Educa-tion Centre, where she leads high school students through anti-racism exhibits such as a Nuremberg mock trial.

Jenn received her LLB from UBC Law. She clerked at the Supreme Court of BC, and articled and practiced civil litigation at a large regional law firm in Vancouver. Pri-or to and during law school, Jenn worked in post-secondary student affairs in Canada and the United States. Jenn summered at various non-profit and governmental orga-nizations during law school and continues to provide summary advice on civil litiga-tion matters through Access Pro Bono. In her spare time, she trains in the swinging trapeze with the Vancouver Circus School.

Tracy received her LLB from UBC and brings 12 years of legal experience in a va-

riety of practice areas and settings. Tracy’s work experience includes a clerkship at the Supreme Court of British Columbia, a sum-mer position with the Department of Jus-tice, and litigation and administrative law experience with a boutique firm and as a sole practitioner.

Lance is the CSO’s Program Assistant. He is the first point of contact for all gen-eral CSO and Symplicity-related inquiries. Lance holds a BA in Economics from UBC. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, Lance served as a Work-Study Administrative As-sistant with the UBC Access & Diversity Office.

What we doThe CSO facilitates and supports the

training and professional development of UBC Law students in respect of their indi-vidual career-related goals. We provide ca-reer coaching and support, training and re-sources, and a connection with the broader legal community.

Our services include one-on-one student counseling appointments, career program-ming and seminars, recruitment and net-working events, outreach to traditional and non-traditional employers and law societies in various jurisdictions, and job postings. The CSO has over 100 handouts regard-ing specific recruitment processes, practice areas, career options and job search strate-gies. All of these resources and job postings are available on the Symplicity website.

Where to find usThe CSO is located in Rooms 153 to 156

of Allard Hall. Our doors are always open, but you are encouraged to make an ap-pointment in advance via Symplicity for extended discussions and resume and cover letter reviews. We also hold drop-in advis-ing hours at lunchtime every 2nd Wednes-day while classes are in session.

Further contact info can be found at http://www.law.ubc.ca/careerservices/index.html.

Please feel free to contact any member of the CSO team with your questions, con-cerns, suggestions, and any career-related needs that you may have.

All roads lead to Symplicity

www.ubclawcareers.com

1Ls should have received their login and password information via email on Friday, September 2, 2011.

If you do not have a Symplicity login, email [email protected], so that you can access our Docu-ment Library, review job post-ings, and make appointments with Pam, Jenn or Tracy.

We look forward to assisting you with your career

All that is required of you is 3 to 5 hours a week. This is about the same amount of time that you will likely spend crying in the lawbrary during exams. The work you provide will have a huge impact on an or-ganization’s ability to provide legal services to the community at large.

If you are not interested in donating time to our valuable cause, come attend our Launch and Lunch event, on September 2 at 12pm. This year, David Eby will be giving an inspiring talk on public interest groups and their importance in society. Free lunch and an amazing speaker is a pretty sweet deal. Keep in mind that your line of credit won’t last forever and take us up on our offer!

We also invite everyone to our infamous ‘Welcome Back Bash,’ which will be held this year on September 6th at the Man-chester. Come out to catch up with old friends, make new ones, and party like there isn’t class the next day (You’re just getting the syllabus anyway). Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door, they will be sold somewhere in the Law Build-ing.

Check us out at www.ubcpbsc.com or email us at [email protected].


7A Little Career AdviceBY PAMELA CYR & JENNIFER LAU

The CSO’s career-related advice for 1Ls is simple – don’t worry about jobs at this early stage in your legal career! Take the time to enjoy law school, meet new friends and future colleagues, and get involved in the legal community through volunteer work. Sign up for LSLAP or join a club and start building some practical legal skills.

Attend the many panels and info sessions on different practice areas and career paths for law graduates. It is not imperative that you get a law-related 1L summer job – and we’re happy to chat about what you can do with a law degree and we will hold 1L Career Information Sessions in October to get you started.

Career Advice for Second Year Students

In the Fall of 2nd year, it may seem like everyone is applying and interviewing for a 2nd year summer position with a large Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto firm. However, only 25 to 30% of 2Ls at UBC Law secure summer positions through this highly competitive process. Contrary to popular belief, everyone does not summer at a large corporate firm.

Smaller and medium sized firms, UBC Law professors, and public interest em-ployers in Vancouver and elsewhere in BC tend to hire their summer students later in the year (i.e. the spring term).

Postings for the Public Interest Work Placement Program, which provides 6 full-time summer positions in public interest employers across BC for UBC Law students only, will be available on Symplic-ity in February.

Keep an eye on Symplicity, create your search strategy, and attend career-related panels throughout the year to learn more about these opportunities.

Career Advice for Third Year StudentsEach year, approximately 50% of the

third year UBC Law class starts third year

without articles. This is a peculiar quirk of the BC job market, as the Law Society of British Columbia does not regulate the articling recruitment process. As a result, most BC legal employers do not hire their articling students until the spring/summer of their 3rd year.

Historically, more than 90% of UBC Law graduates indicate an intention to article after graduation. By graduation in May, approximately 80-85% of these students report securing an articling position. By January, when the CSO finalizes its arti-cling statistics, approximately 96-99% of these students report securing an articling position. The articling search is, and al-ways has been, very competitive. However, with hard work and strategic planning, students who want an articling position should be able to secure one, absent special circumstances.

Approximately 8% - 10% of the gradu-ating class does not seek articles. These graduates typically pursue an LL.M. or another post-secondary degree, accept a position in the public interest sector, cor-porate sector, or with the government.

If you are a third year student seeking articles, we encourage you to make an ap-pointment with a member of the CSO so that we can assist you in your search.

The CSO will be holding exclusive drop-in advising for 3Ls searching for articles on Wed, Sept 7 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Room 121. We will also be holding an articling search workshop (“Beyond Post-ings”) in October.

In January 2012, the CSO will once again provide a voluntary Resume Book service for those 3Ls who are still seeking articles. Participating 3Ls will have their resumes sent to all small firm employers in BC who indicate that they would like to receive the Resume Book.

If you are a third year student who has secured an articling position or does not intend to article, please drop by the CSO or email us to let us know. Please include the city and the name of the legal employ-er, or your alternate plans.

We love to hear about job search success stories!

buying the textbook. An emergency trip to the bookstore (at East Mall and Univer-sity Boulevard) will resolve most woes – provided you have the endurance to stand in line for an hour, and can swim back to Allard Hall for your afternoon class. Student cards and U-Passes are obtained here as well.

5:00pm – Koerner’s Pub (tentative)The yearly tradition of losing its liquor

license for serving underage patrons has caused Koerner’s Pub (located W of Allard Hall along Crescent Road, in the basement of the Graduate Student Centre) to close once more. Koerner’s Pub aims to re-open within the next few months, allowing law students and their professors to again enjoy pitchers of beer while discussing the dangers of substance abuse in the legal profession. In the meanwhile, The Pit Pub or Gallery Lounge (both in the SUB) are SNAIL-filled alternatives.

6:59pm – Student Union Building Before settling in the Law Library until it

closes at 10pm, travellers are advised that the Starbucks in the SUB closes at 7pm. Warning: Light fjording may be necessary.

10:00pm - Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (open till 1am)

Trust me, you weren’t going to finish that paper tonight anyways. Just stay on youtube/facebook/reddit for a little while longer. You worked hard today – you deserve it.

1:10am – University VillageLocated along University Boulevard

between Wesbrook Mall and Allison Road. There are a comfortable assortment of shops and eateries that await you. Un-fortunately, all of the restaurants but the 24-hour McDonald’s are closed by now. Enjoy a sodium-filled treat as you wait for the #99, #14, or #4 bus to take you off campus, and only to return in five hours for another day.

Travellers should note that the tugging sensations on one’s submerged legs are merely the hands of those being swept away by floodwaters; a gentle shake will release them.


8Academic Services, Susan Morin, are working on this. The idea is to run a pilot now that we’re in a building that has enough outlets. This will be the first year in the fall term. We can then to rollout the exam software more broadly, assuming that everything goes right, and make it available in all classes.

TLE: It will be available for first years?

DB: The first run is for first years and as-suming the pilot goes well, and then it will expand. The procedures and policies will need to be worked-out.

TLE: How big will the class size be for incoming students in the future?

DB: The entering class size was 200 before we moved into swing space and we had planned to go back. We delayed the change back to 200 because of uncertain-

ties about timing and other factors. We need to take into account the Federation of Law Societies’ new accreditation re-quirements for law schools. We will have to see how the classroom complement works. There are new law schools going online so we need to look at the pro-jected total number of articling positions available for graduates.

Going downstairs…

DB: Going back to the topic of sustain-ability in the new building: there are the end of trip showers and washrooms. We’re all going to be happy that the bikers who make it up the big hills into UBC get their end of trip showers. There is a disability accessible shower and of course regular washrooms.

Unfortunately, at this stage there are only 181 full-sized lockers. We might be able to increase the number over time,

perhaps moving to half lockers. We hope at some point to be able to have lockers for all students who need one.

TLE: The last question that I have is about Mr. Allard and his unexpected gift. Had you heard that he was interested in giving a gift to the law school before he did?

DB: Well, one of my jobs is to gather financial support for the school. We talk with people about how they might want to support the law school all the time. We eventually had the opportunity to talk with Mr. Allard about the project and were thrilled by the fact that he decided to sup-port the school and this building project. Mr. Allard’s donation will support the building and other aspects of the school. He donated a statue that will be located on the 4th floor terrace and has provided funding for the Allard Prize for Interna-tional Integrity.


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