Ian Holloway has been Dean of Law at the University of Calgary since 2011. He is currently the longest-serving law dean in North America, and the longest-serving in Canada since 1961. He is also the longest-serving law dean in the history of two different law schools – the University of Calgary, and Western University, where he served as dean from 2000 – 2011.
Negativity is the governing professional disposition in which a great experiment in Canadian legal education is about to take place. That is the establishment of a degree-granting law school at Ryerson University.
This has been a tough winter in Canada — one of the hardest in recent years, climate change notwithstanding. Thanks to extended periods of frigid temperatures in southern Canada, we’ve all had unhappy tutorials in the science of things such as polar vortexes and weather bombs. So it was that it was often warmer in Whitehorse than in Toronto. At least in the circles I run, that meant that February was a grumpier month than it usually is. It also meant that, more than once, I found myself mumbling the Duke of Gloucester’s famous line from Shakespeare’s Richard III, “Now is the winter of our discontent.”
