18th Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture and Panel Discussion
"How Justice Rand Devised his Famous Formula and Forever Changed the Landscape of Canadian Labour Law", by William Kaplan, Arbitrator and Mediator
Thursday, October 21, 2010, 5:30 p.m. and Friday, October 22, 2010, 10:00 a.m.
The eighteenth Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 5:30 PM in the Mary Louise Lynch Room (Room 2A/2B) at Ludlow Hall. Arbitrator and mediator William Kaplan will deliver the lecture, "How Justice Rand Devised his famous Formula and Forever Changed the Landscape of Candian Labour Law". A light reception will follow the lecture.
We also invite you to a panel discussion relating to Justice Rand and the launch of a special edition of the UNB Law Journal that focuses on the life and work of Justice Rand on the 22nd of October from 10:00a.m. to 11:30a.m. in the McAllister Room, Ludlow Hall. Panelists are Professor Randal N. M. Graham, University of Western, Faculty of Law; Professor DeLloyd Guth, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law; Professor Richard Bird, UNB Faculty of Law; and Professor Ed Veitch, UNB Faculty of Law. Professor John McEvoy, UNB Faculty of Law, will moderate.
The Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture Series is made possible by generous donations from the Canadian National and from Abraham Calp and family.
Biography of William Kaplan
This year's lecturer, William Kaplan, is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and has an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School. After becoming a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1985, Mr. Kaplan was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa in 1986 becoming an Associate Professor in 1991. His teaching areas included labour law, legislation, and legal history. While he returned half-time to that faculty in 1998-1999 and again in 2000-2001 as a Professor of Law, Mr. Kaplan moved, in 1995, to act on a full-time basis as an arbitrator, mediator, and independent investigator in private law, work he had been engaged in since 1989.
Mr. Kaplan is the author of many publications. He has written seven books, the two most recent being A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust (2004) and Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand (2009). He has also edited many books including several volumes of the Labour Arbitration Yearbook and Law Policy and International Justice: Essays in Honour of Maxwell Cohen (1993). He is also the author of almost twenty articles, many of which address questions of labour law, citizenship, and civil liberties.
Mr. Kaplan is the recipient of the Law Society Medal (1999) and a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the Law Society of Upper Canada. He is a member of many professional associations including the Advocate's Society, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, and the National Academy of Arbitrators.
Ivan C. Rand (1884-1969)
Ivan Cleveland Rand--jurist, scholar, public servant and educator--was a towering figure in the life of the law of Canada during the crucial middle decades of the twentieth century. Trained at Harvard prior to the First World War, he was catapulted onto the national stage in the midst of the Second, with his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada after 25 years of distinguished practice, particularly as counsel to the Canadian National Railway. At the Court, Rand demonstrated a penetration of mind and firmness of principle in a body of timeless judgments rendered from 1943 to 1959. Rand also engaged in important acts of public service as a Royal Commissioner and an arbitrator. In his later life, Rand become the Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario and was a Visiting Professor at the University of New Brunswick.
As a jurist, Rand is universally recognized as Canada's greatest civil libertarian in an era when our constitutional theory was still bounded by the British legacy of parliamentary supremacy. At the same time, he was a passionate exponent of the federal principle. Rand was celebrated as a judge of considerable wisdom, for whom law and justice were intimately intertwined. His voice will resonates even in our most recent constitutional jurisprudence in questions of federalism, civil liberties and social justice.
