An Inventory of Its Records at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections

Inventory prepared by Jeanette Mockford
University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
330 Elizabeth Dafoe Library
(November 2013)

Finding aid encoded by Jeanette Mockford (November 2013)
Finding aid written in English.

Collection Summary

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Administrative History of the Faculty of Law

The University of Manitoba first became involved in legal education in 1885 when it established a three-year course of studies leading to the LL.B. degree. This course did not include instruction, it simply prescribed a reading program with three annual examinations, which articled law students couId follow concurrently with the course prescribed by the Law Society. In the years 1911-1912, the Law Society was prompted by the Law Students Association to provide a short series of lectures. In 1913, H.A. Robson, then Manitoba's Public Utilities Commissioner and a former judge of the Court of King's Bench, organized a considerably improved course of lectures and began to lay the plans for the establishment in the following year of a permanent law school modeled after the Osgoode Hall Law School of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

The Manitoba Law School was jointly sponsored by The University of Manitoba and the Law Society of Manitoba. Both bodies took part in the planning from the beginning. In the summer of 1914, they entered into an agreement, subsequently endorsed by legislation, which provided for the creation of the School, offering a three-year course consisting of lectures and apprenticeship leading to both an LL.B. degree and a call to the Bar and admission to practice. Expenses of the School were shared equally by the two parent bodies, and its operations were supervised by a jointly appointed Board of Trustees. This arrangement between The University of Manitoba and the Law Society of Manitoba continued until 1966 when the Law School became the Faculty of Law of the University of Manitoba.

The Faculty of Law presently offers programs of study leading to two degrees, the LL.B. and the LL.M. The latter degree program was brought into existence in 1949 by the Manitoba Law School. It was substantially revamped by the Faculty of Law in 1968.

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Scope and Contents of the Records

The first accrual (A.13-104) is divided into 6 series. It includes examination templates, Legal Research Institute notes and research, copies from the Archive of Western Canadian Legal History and related finding aids, oversized items, photographs, and tapes. The photograph collection includes 8 slides, 232 negatives, 2450 photographs, 12 contact sheets, 3 Compact Discs, 2 filmstrips, and 6 VHS Video Cassettes. The tape collection includes 50 Audio Cassette Tapes, 11 Reel to Reel Audio Tapes, and 1-33RPM Microgroove Vinyl Audio Record.

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Arrangement of the Papers

This collection is arranged into six series.

• 1. Faculty of Law Examination Templates
• 2. Legal Research Institute Notes and Research
• 3. Archive of Western Canadian Legal History with related finding aids
• 4. Oversized Items
• 5. Photograph Collection
• 6. Robson Hall Display Case Items (display cases located on the first floor)

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Restrictions on Access

File folders with restricted items are marked.

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Restrictions on Use

File folders with restricted items are marked.

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Custodial History

The A13-104, A13-105, A13-106, A13-114, A13-115, A13-116, A13-117, A13-118 accruals were donated by the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law in 2013.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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