Building Justice

Shauna Van Praagh is a professor of law at McGill University where she has served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in Law. She is an active member of several transdisciplinary research teams and centres at McGill and Université de Montréal and has taught as a visitor at Hebrew University and the University of Barcelona. She is a past recipient of McGill’s John W. Durnford Prize for Teaching Excellence and has served as President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers.

Prologue: Foot Fragments and the Cathedral

Part I. Cutting Stone: Welcome to Law

1. The Dean’s Speech
2. Frank’s Facts
3. Prelude to a Legal Education: Frank’s Stories
4. Law School
5. Legal Education Continued

Part II. Five Dollars a Day: Lawyering in the World

6. Farewell to Law School
7. You Will Keep Learning: Frank Iacobucci and the Law of Corporations
8. You Will Lead: Frank Iacobucci as Playmaker
9. You Will Pursue Justice: Frank Iacobucci at the Supreme Court
10. Less than Five Dollars a Day: Nancy Iacobucci as Lawyer
11. Beyond the Court

Part III. Building a Cathedral: Called to Action

12. The Third Worker
13. The Law Class Reunion
14. Cathedral as Project: Residential Schools and Reconciliation
15. Cathedral as Congregation: Mentorship and the Extended Family
16. Cathedral as Identity: Community and Belonging
17. Individuals and the Cathedral: The Maker’s Mark

Epilogue: The Work of Building and the Journey of Justice