306101 6/29/04 5:35 PM Page 1 NewsNews SPRING 2004 Bill Neilson, Looking back over 27 years. Faculty of Law 306101 6/29/04 5:35 PM Page 2 Contents UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA LAW NEWS COVER STORY SECTIONS 4 UVic Law Moot Court 1 From the Editor Professor Bill 20 Competitions: Achievements 2 From the Dean Neilson Retires abound at UVic Law this year After 27 years of service to the with stellar moot performances! 3 From the Alumni Faculty of Law at the University Association of Victoria, Professor Bill Neilson 13 Faculty News bids adieu. 16 Student News 19 Career Development Office 20 Law Co-op 22 Moot Competitions 27 From the Law Library 35 What’s New with UVic Freda (Kardish) Hansen: “It’s Law Alumni 28 been 25 years! Where has the time gone? I guess it’s true that life happens while you are busy making other plans!” News FEATURES Law News is produced by the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, and published twice yearly. The views expressed here- New Zealand Trip: Professor in do not necessarily reflect those of the Faculty of Law or the 12 Chris Tollefson’s adventure in University of Victoria. New Zealand. Law News is made possible by the generous support of the Faculty of Law, Alumni and friends. Editor Anne Pappas Editorial The Faculty of Law, University of Correspondence Victoria. Tel (250) 721-8025 Email: [email protected] Contributers Anne Pappas, John McLaren, Mark Underhill, Bill Neilson, Allan Berezny, Janet Person, Debra Steger, Mark Goetze, Calder Conference: A tribute to Dan Puchniak, Robert Lapper, Fritz 18 Klantschi, Drew Duncan, Chris Tollefson, Frank Calder and the Nisga’a. Kim Hart-Wensley, Lloy Wylie, Nancy Pye, Eloise Spitzer, Elizabeth Reid, Donald Galloway, Neil A. Campbell, Don Casswell, Bob Howell, Lyman Robinson, Freda (Kardish) Hansen, Neela Paige, Rebecca Johnson Design Candace Forbes and Irene Havens – UVic Graphics Services, Anne Pappas Real Life Case: First year Law 32 Photographers Don Pierce and Chris Marshall – UVic Students engage in a real life case Photographic Services, Elizabeth Reid, at the University of Victoria Liz Wheaton, Lloy Wylie, UVic Law Faculty of Law. Alumni, and the UVic Law photo archive. SPRING 2004 306101 6/29/04 5:35 PM Page 1 UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA LAW NEWS FROM THE EDITOR 1 From the Editor Having recently moved to Victoria from rewarding. The excitement and victory Ontario, and joined UVic Law, as of our moot teams has offered a Development & External Relations glimpse of the success and effort that Officer, it has been a privilege to be able goes into competitive mooting. to create and edit this edition of the Getting to know members of the UVic Law News. It has been especially Law Alumni Association steering exciting as Dean Petter allowed me the committee and class representatives freedom to create a new “look and feel” has provided me with the opportunity for this publication. to meet the greatest ambassadors for Producing this magazine over my UVic Law. The tribute to Frank Calder inspiration and exudes the warmth of very short tenure has been a great recently hosted by the Faculty was a UVic Law that is renowned and has adventure. The many months of resounding success. Lloy Wylie’s been very evident in welcoming me. “By far, the greatest reward has been my Take a moment to be a tourist and walk through these pages with us. Your introduction to faculty, staff, alumni and friends comments are encouraged and we welcome your contributions to the next who all contribute to the essence of UVic Law.” issue of Law News, scheduled for the late fall. preparing a communications audit; account and photos of the event are Lastly, my sincere thanks to the working through production testament to its impact. By far, the UVic Graphics Department team, timelines; assessing design templates; greatest reward has been my everyone who contributed, wrote, pouring over old versions of Law introduction to faculty, staff, alumni edited, designed, formatted a million News; and talking to anyone who and friends who all make up the times, and took the photographs for would listen to me were well spent. essence of UVic Law. this issue. Your efforts in creating this But all pale in comparison to the Facilitating our tributes to Professor inaugural publication are greatly experience of compiling the magazine. Bill Neilson a.k.a. “Wild Bill”,and Freda appreciated. This issue is dedicated to No amount of advanced research Hansen (Kardish), who both retire this you all - “jointly and severally”.We prepared me for the final creation year, has been an honor and a privilege. could not have done it without you! which surpassed all expectations. While capturing the full ambit of their The primary goal in creating this contributions to UVic Law is Regards, publication was to showcase UVic Law impossible, hopefully we have been able and the many people that make it such to capture some part of the mark they a wonderful place. Being able to meet leave on the school and its community. and in some instances vicariously Certainly, Law News has taken on a Anne Pappas capture the many accomplishments of new format and design, but hopefully it our constituents has been most fills you with a sense of familiarity and 306101 6/29/04 5:35 PM Page 2 2 DEAN’S MESSAGE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA LAW NEWS Dean’s Message funding for the Law Centre seems career, especially at UVic. We wish him assured for another couple of years at all the very best in his no doubt intensely least. In Iqaluit, our other campus, the active retirement. twelve students in the program have There have been several comings passed the halfway point in their degree and going among our administrative program. They recently had the dream staff in recent months. Nancy Pye is trip to and sojourn in Ottawa where they now Assistant University Secretary. met the justices of the Supreme Court of We miss Nancy’s infectious smile and Canada and took tea at Rideau Hall. contributions to our career development This has been the year for hiring program. She has been replaced by new faculty. Andrew Harding, an Jennifer Moroskat who has similar internationally renowned scholar of experience at the University of Alberta Southeast Asian legal systems, will be Law School. Liz Wheaton who has A new look and an old Dean! Sitting in joining us in July, taking over the Chair worked energetically for the the Dean’s chair for six months has a of Asia Pacific Law. Ben Berger, a Environmental Law and Policy program definite feel of déjà vu to it. Having graduate of the Law School, clerk to the has joined us as Secretary to both the been a Dean in a past life I had some Chief Justice of Canada and currently a graduate program and our development sense of what to expect in the way of graduate student at Yale University and office. In the latter we now have the lively workload and a faster pace of life. Gillian Calder, a UBC graduate with an and highly capable, Anne Pappas, until Perhaps what has surprised me is the greater complexity of life and learning “Perhaps what has surprised me is the greater in the academy compared with twenty years ago. The consolation is that a complexity of life and learning in the academy significant part of that complexity is the result of the creative urges and special compared with twenty years ago.” programs for which this still relatively small school is famous. LL.M. from Osgoode Hall, practice recently in a similar position at the This is a year which is at least as experience on the West Coast and University of Windsor Law School. One challenging and lively as its immediate teaching experience at the University of Anne’s priorities has been to work predecessors. In January we received the of New Brunswick are also taking up with Mark Underhill and others on an final approval for our graduate program, positions in July. Finally, Maxine Matilpi alumni development campaign. Finally and will be accepting both LL.M. and of the Kwakuitl Nation, a graduate of the our cheery presence at reception, Becki Ph.D. students this Fall. The program school, who practiced in Victoria and Edwards, has moved on to new pastures organized under the general theme of who more recently has been Chief Treaty in Calgary. Law and Society has five areas of Negotiator for her nation and an I trust that you will enjoy the new concentration: Environmental Law and instructor at Malaspina College joined format and detail of Law News. We are Policy; Aboriginal Justice; Legal History; the faculty in March. always interested in hearing from alumni Legal Theory; and Public Law. Bill Neilson who has served the both about their news and their The second Victoria cycle of the School and the University so well in so impressions of what they read “between International Intellectual Property many guises and who has reached out so these covers”. Summer Program under the successfully to the international indefatigable Bob Howell runs this community, especially in Asia, is retiring Regards, summer, with the symposium set for the this summer. I have no doubt that he will Wosk Centre in Vancouver, July 16-17. continue to be an important presence in Through the ongoing efforts of both this place. It is fitting that this issue of Glenn Gallins and Andrew Petter the Law News is dedicated to him and his John McLaren, Acting Dean SPRING 2004 306101 6/29/04 5:35 PM Page 3 UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA LAW NEWS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 3 From the Law Alumni Association Welcome to the new Law Alumni We are also beginning to sketch out Association page of the Law News.