The TRU Faculty of Law announced the publication of a new law journal which aims to establish itself as a top-rated academic law review. The inaugural issue of the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law (CJCCL), an open access journal, was published online on Jan. 31.
“I applaud the faculty’s efforts to open a broader dialogue among academics and students, and their rigorous effort toward legal scholarship in Canada,” said TRU President and Vice-Chancellor Alan Shaver.
Edited by law faculty Robert Diab, Chris D.L. Hunt and Lorne Neudorf, the CJCCL is mandated to publish innovative and rigorous scholarship that makes a significant contribution to legal study.
The journal’s Editors in Chief select a specific theme that will be the focus of each year’s issue, facilitating a penetrating analysis of a particular legal topic to a greater degree than other, general interest academic law reviews. Contributors are also encouraged to take a comparative approach in their scholarship. This inaugural issue examines the intersection between health law and human rights, and features contributions from some of the leading scholars in these fields, including a foreword by Lorne Sossin, Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. The second issue, to be published in January 2016, will examine the future of equity in Canada and beyond.
“TRU’s Faculty of Law is well-placed and off to a tremendous start with an extremely bright future ahead,” says Bradford Morse, Dean of the Faculty of Law. “This new journal further confirms what an incredibly enthusiastic and talented collection of law professors our students are mentored and taught by.”
The Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University, the first new law school established in Canada in over thirty years, opened its doors in 2011. In 2014, TRU Law celebrated its first class of graduates and saw the official opening of the faculty’s award-winning new home in the Old Main building, an architectural centrepiece of TRU’s Kamloops campus.
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