UVic LSS

Congratulations to the professors and students who were winners of the 2025-2026 LSS Awards!
The LSS Awards are the pinnacle what can be achieved here at UVic Law 😉
In all seriousness, with all the nominations received, winning one of these awards should not be understated. And to all the nominees, every single one of you have done some incredible things to make UVic Law a better place to study. You are all winners in the eyes of the LSS.

This Tuesday! The final Special Topic Lecture of the year, featuring UVic's own, the beloved and award winning Professor Calder! Sharing the results of a study conducted in the Fall of 2024 with a generation of UVic Law alumni, asking them to connect the competencies they draw on in their day-to-day work with the courses, methods of teaching and evaluation they encountered at law school. This lecture will be mandatory for the incoming LSS Executive, but all students are invited to attend. It will be after the LSS Awards Presentations during the Dean's End of Year Social. So please come to that, grab some food, cheer on the award winners and then come to this incredibly insightful lecture.

The history of legal education in Canada is marked by a series of ebbs and flows in discord between the academy and the profession, often articulated starkly as a tension between theory and practice. The current moment feels like another one of these low tides – where there is pressure to move to a “competency-based assessment process” for admission to the Bar, with critique and conversation set solely within a dichotomous structure that constructs law schools and legal regulator foundationally at odds. This lecture takes up this challenge by shifting the frame and reimagining the processes of learning law to be as diverse as understandings of law itself, with multiple ways of knowing and being engaged, and critical attention paid to what teaching for “competency” might mean. How might we reimagine what “thinking like a lawyer” in the 21st century entails? What might be required for a change in perspective in how law could be taught to meet the goal the academy and the profession share – developing the humane professionals that our world demands?

Cannot make the Grad Gala but still want photos? We have secured an alternative date for grad photos only! Tickets are $40 and will guarantee at least 2 photos per person in full regalia. These are significantly cheaper than most alternatives available.

Wednesday March 25 starting at 4:30pm with more time slots potentially available based on demand.

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Come explore how you can build a meaningful path in public interest law. Free lunch, great speakers, and amazing insights - Sign up & pull up UVic Law!

We have two more special topic lectures left this semester, both coming from some of Fraser's most popular profs! Mark Zion teaches Torts and Green Legal Theory at the UVic Faculty of Law. He has ongoing teaching and research interests in Law and the (Post-)Humanities.

This talk will offer a preliminary introduction to the field of 'law and literature.' We will have an open discussion that may include a brief creative activity! What are some relations between law and literature? Between law and film? How can we move beyond the binary of 'law as literature' and 'law in literature'? Why are these questions enriching in all areas of theory and practice?

Join us in FRA157 this Tuesday at lunch for a fascinating and philosophical discussion. Light foods provided.