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94 Can. B. Rev. 1 (2016)

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Vol. 94                       2016                         No. 1



       FOREWORD FROM THE CHAIR OF THE
                    EDITORIAL BOARD

                 CANADIAN BAR REVIEW

        FIRST   EDITION UNDER NEW EDITORS
                        AUGUST 2016


    I am delighted to welcome our new Editorial team in this their inaugural
issue of the Review.

    Our new team has taken the helm of a fine vessel, so ably skippered
until recently by our previous editor, the remarkable Professor Beth Bilson.
Thanks to her and her predecessors, the Review has an illustrious and
successful past, anchored in its mandate to promote the importance of good
laws, the exchange of ideas, both practical and scholarly and the richness
of our bilingual and bijural legal community. It is small wonder that the
Review continues to be viewed as a precious resource for practising lawyers,
an unmatched medium of exchange among scholars and the keeper of ideas
that help shape the law developed by our courts.

    Our new editorial team inherits this tradition of excellence. But like
their predecessors, they also face the challenge of translating the Review
mandate into the legal landscape of a new day. That is why the Editorial Board
over the past 18 months has wrestled with the question of how to ensure that
the Review remains at the cutting edge of scholarly law publications in the
rapidly changing scholarly and communications environment of the 21st
century.

    After a thorough consultation process, we concluded that a key to the
Review's continued pre-eminence is that its high-quality, peer-reviewed


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