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Remembering Justice Brian Stevenson
December 12, 1939 – February 16, 2026 Justice Brian Stevenson, of Calgary, Alberta, passed away on Monday, February 16, 2026, at the age of eighty-six. Justice Stevenson grew up in the small community of Wakefield, Quebec, a short twenty-minute drive north of...
Calgary Lawyers — A Sporty Profession
By Brenda McCafferty, LASA Archivist A Look Back at Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympics and Calgary Athletes Aside from the seemingly mundane duties of civil litigation and criminal law, lawyers commonly shoulder a wide range of social, political, and economic...
Why is Legal History Important: The Early Calgary Contribution
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Originally a speech presented to the Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners on October 7, 2025 What is Legal History In 1973, legal scholar R.C.B. Risk published “A Prospectus for Canadian Legal History” in the Dalhousie Law Journal. ...
Book Review: Adams, Eric M. and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2025
Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Having spent much of my youth in British Columbia, including summers with my maternal grandparents on Vancouver Island and my paternal grandparents in Kitimat, I had never before heard of the plight of Japanese Canadians. During my...
Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, Part II: Female Faculty that Shaped the Legal Profession
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Previous posts in LASA’s “City Builders” series have focused on individuals and their contributions to the city of Calgary over the last 150 years. The following post – in two parts – will examine the Faculty of Law at the University...
Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, Part I: What’s History Got to do with it?
By Stacy F. Kaufeld, M.A. Previous posts in LASA’s “City Builders” series have focused on individuals and their contributions to the city of Calgary over the last 150 years. The following post – in two parts – will examine the Faculty of Law at the University...
2025 Annual General Meeting
LASA hosted its Annual General Meeting on June 11, 2025, via Microsoft Teams. Members of the current Board of Directors re-appointed for a two-year term are the Hon. Blair Nixon, the Hon. Kevin Feehan, the Hon. Dallas Miller, Leanne Young, K.C., Wayne Malcolm...
Red Deer Historical Dinner
Featuring our guest speaker: Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal, Supreme Court of Canada
The Future of Judicial Independence and Improving Court Administration
On October 23, 2024 and February, 27, 2025, LASA hosted our Annual Historical Dinners in Edmonton and Calgary, respectively. We were delighted to welcome the Honourable Kent Davidson, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench who spoke about the importance of...