Manitoba Law Journal: Criminal Law Edition (Robson Crim) 2019 Volume 42(3)
About this ebook
This issue has articles from a variety of contributing authors including: David Ireland, Richard Jochelson, Lucinda Vandervort, Paul M. Alexander, Kelly De Luca, Davinder Singh, Karen Busby, Gurgen Petrossian, Anita Grace, Kyle McCleery, Colton Fehr, Kathryn M. Campbell, Jonathan Avey, Maeve W. McMahon, Paetrick Sakowski, Nathan Phelan, and Lauren Chancellor.
About the author
Dr. Richard Jochelson is a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and holds his PhD in law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, a Masters in Law from University of Toronto Law School, and a Law Degree from University of Calgary Law School (Gold Medal). He is a former law clerk who served his articling year at the Alberta Court of Appeal and Court of Queen’s Bench, before working at one of Canada’s largest law firms. He worked for ten years teaching criminal and constitutional law at another Canadian university prior to joining Robson Hall.
He has published peer-reviewed articles dealing with obscenity, indecency, judicial activism, police powers, criminal justice pedagogy and curriculum development, empiricism in criminal law, and conceptions of judicial and jury reasoning. He is a member of the Bar of Manitoba and has co-authored and co-edited several books. He is a co-founder, architect and former editor of one of Canada's only national criminal justice journals. He has recently co-authored The Disappearance of Criminal Law: Police Powers and the Supreme Court (Fernwood, 2015) and Criminal Law and Precrime: Legal Studies in Canadian Punishment and Surveillance in Anticipation of Criminal Guilt (Routledge 2018).
David Ireland is an Assistant professor at Robson Hall. A graduate of the LL.B. and LL.M. programs at Robson Hall, David practiced criminal law as both Crown and defence counsel before joining the faculty in 2016. His graduate thesis, “Bargaining for Expedience? The Overuse of Joint Recommendations on Sentence”, supervised by Professor Debra Parkes, highlighted the prevalence of cultural joint recommendations in the plea bargaining process in Manitoba.
Based in Ottawa, Dr. Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is Gowling WLG's national manager of diversity & inclusion (D&I).
Rebecca is passionate about equality and D&I. In her varied legal career, she has worked as a lawyer in litigation and law reform, and taught and researched in academia. Through her professional, academic, and personal endeavours, she has always been committed to her vision of an inclusive, collegial, and diverse legal profession and culture. She brings this commitment to her work at Gowling WLG.
Prior to joining the Gowling WLG team, Rebecca was director of the Graduate Diploma Program in Conflict Resolution at Carleton University's Department of Law and Legal Studies.
Rebecca speaks English fluently and speaks French conversantly.
