Introduction: Law School

• What Is Legal Education?

Chapter 1: Indentured Labour

• Ferries, Corduroy, and a Jitney
• Articles
• A Profession of Apprentices without Principals
• Day-to-day Work
• Studying and Examination
• Early Twentieth Century Articles

Chapter 2: Formal Legal Instruction Begins

• Ladner's Journey and Its Aftermath
• The Law Students' Campaign
• The Vancouver Law School, 1914 to 1943
• The Student Experience of the Vancouver Law School
• The Victoria Law School, 1914 to 1923
• In Retrospect
• Quick! A Surprise Quiz

Chapter 3: University Legal Education Begins

• Legal Education at the University of British Columbia, 1920 to 1945
• Early University of British Columbia Law Teachers
• UBC Law Curriculum, 1919 to 1945
• The British Columbia Anomaly
• Review of the University Environment in British Columbia, 1872 to 1945

Chapter 4: Toward a Law Faculty

• Affiliation with the Law Society
• The Law Society's Financial Situation
• The Law Society Proposal for a Law Faculty
• Preliminary Consultations and Cultural Vision
• Finances
• The 1923 Apparition
• Years of Dormancy

Chapter 5: Reawakening

• The Idea Resurfaces
• The Second World War
• Breakthrough!
• Opposition to University Legal Education

• Let Justice Be Done
• The New Era: Law's Crucial Mission

Chapter 7: Law’s Content

• The University of British Columbia, 1945 to 1950
• They're Actually Reading Cases! Pedagogic Objectives of the Early University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
• Curriculum
• The Common Law Is the Thing, the English Common Law!

Chapter 8: Experiences at Law School

• Practising Profession as Part-time Teachers
• Returning Veterans’ Refresher Course
• Maintaining Relations with the Legal Profession
• Student Experiences at the Early Law Faculty
• Student Culture and Ethos
• The Spirit of the Veterans’ Era
• Student Social Life
• Attending the Annual Law Ball
• Founding of the UBC Law Review
• Selling Pencils
• Sandwich Courses

Chapter 9: Opening the Portals

• The Doorkeepers
• Racism and the Legal Profession
• Women Lawyers in British Columbia
• "Dirty" Politics

Chapter 10: Buildings and Books

• Building a Place for Learning
• Status in 1945
• Status in 1946
• Status in 1951
• The Library
• The UBC Cases Series

Chapter 11: The Modern Web

• The Expanding Law School
• A New Law Faculty in Victoria
• Innovation in the Teaching of Law
• Looking Forward