On March 1, the Alberta Law Review hosted its annual spring reception, including an address from University of Alberta Faculty of Law Dean Paul Paton, at the University of Alberta Faculty Club. Faculty, students, practitioners, and judges gathered to celebrate another successful year of the Alberta Law Review, and to honour the evening's keynote speaker, Prof. Lewis Klar, Q.C., who provided an interesting retrospective on the development of tort law over the past 40 years.
During his time as Dean of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, Prof. Klar was one of the Law Review's strongest supporters. Instrumental in helping the Law Review secure Stevenson House - named in honour of The Honourable W.A. Stevenson, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada - as its headquarters in 1999, Prof. Klar has consistently promoted the Law Review to students as an invaluable experience.
The Alberta Law Review will be publishing a Special Issue on Recent Developments in Tort Law in honour of Prof. Klar this summer. The issue will include contributions from some of Canada's top tort law scholars, including Prof. Klar, and international contributions from eminent legal scholars at Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. The Alberta Law Review thanks Prof. Klar for his strong support over the course of his distinguished career.
In addition to honouring Prof. Klar, the reception served as an opportunity to look ahead to the future of the Alberta Law Review. Starting in the fall, issues of the Alberta Law Review will be available for free online. This marks the transition from a printed journal to an online edition, which will help the Law Review better achieve its mandate to reach a wide audience for its scholarship.
Many thanks to the reception sponsors: Miller Thomson LLP, the Alberta Workers' Compensation Board, Bennett Jones LLP, and Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP. Thanks also go to the Law Society of Alberta, the Canadian Energy Law Foundation, the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and the University of Calgary for their continued financial support.