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Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University, 3660 Peel St, Montreal, QC
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Richard Janda, editor of Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law, will be accompanied by Bonnie Brown for a presentation on Gerald Le Dain. Hosted by the James McGill Society.
Richard Janda is associate professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University.
Gerald Le Dain (1924-2007) was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984. This collectively written biography traces fifty years of his steady, creative, and conciliatory involvement with military service, the legal academy, legislative reform, university administration, and judicial decision-making.
This book assembles contributions from the in-house historian of the law firm where Le Dain first practised, from students and colleagues in the law schools where he taught, from a research associate in his Commission of Inquiry into the non-medical use of drugs, from two of his successors on the Federal Court of Appeal, and from three judicial clerks to Le Dain at the Supreme Court of Canada. Also reproduced here is a transcript of a recent CBC documentary about his 1988 forced resignation from the Supreme Court following a short-term depressive illness, with commentary from Le Dain’s family and co-workers.