Happy Birthday UWO
Today’s Free Press has a piece by Chip Martin on the history of the University of Western Ontario law school – and a nice tribute to Ivan Rand. There’s a new biography of Rand on the horizon by Bill Kaplan which will likely deal with his involvement in the founding of the state of Israel.
There’ll be big celebrations all year in London Ontario.
I will be honest and say this is the first we’ve heard of it, even in the law school.
Judge Rand’s contribution though is well known. We even have a stainglass window dedicated to him in our Moot Court Room.
My own personal favorite is his pre-Charter dissent in Reference Re: Persons of Japanese Race, [1946] S.C.R. 248, aff’d [1947] 1 D.L.R. 577, where he applied the unwritten bill of rights.