A. Kenneth Pye

Legal Education in an Era of Change: The Challenge

Legal education has changed significantly during the last quarter century. It has met significant challenges-many successfully, some less so. The number of students, faculty, and schools has multiplied. Minority enrollment has increased modestly and the number of women has increased extraordinarily. The quality of students has improved. Curricula have expanded. Clinical education in different forms is now an integral part of legal training, as are seminars and interdisciplinary courses. Audio-visual and computerized techniques of teaching and research have been introduced. Teaching methodology has diversified, buildings have been constructed, library collections have been expanded, administrators have proliferated, faculty salaries have increased, budgets have soaredin sum, a quiet revolution has occurred. Few would question that legal education has been greatly improved in the course of a generation. But new challenges have arisen at a time when resources are arguably inadequate to sustain what law schools are currently doing. This is not the Island of Patmos, but legal education faces more than four horsemen and they are just over the horizon: a diminished demand for legal education, as measured by the quantity and quality of applicants; the threat of a diminished demand for the product of legal education, reflected in increased placement difficulties for some graduates; a diminished mobility of some graduates faced with the necessity of repaying significant loans; aging, overtenured faculties who are increasingly uneasy about what they are teaching; the inability to attract and retain quality faculty; the risk that an increasing number of the most important issues facing legal education will be decided outside law schools; and the threat of reduced resources resulting from lower enrollments and recent changes in federal law.

The Rights of Persons Accused of Crime Under the Canadian Constitution: A Comparative Perspective

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides significant constitutional protections to persons accused of crime.1 The purpose of this article is to examine generally the nature of these rights and how they compare with the constitutional protections afforded to those accused of crimes in the United States. The breadth of the issues involved necessarily requires selectivity in this comparison.