Comment
on PLE History
Documents
Links
WHAT IS
PLE?
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So far, there are only two
documents that really outline the history of PLE, or parts of it, in
Canada: Roland Case’s On the Threshold which documents
the beginnings of law-related education in Canada and Lois Gander’s
Radical Promise of Public
Legal Education in Canada which looks at how public legal education
got started in this country.
Comment
on PLE History
DOCUMENTS
- ACJNet: Electronic
Publishing (1998) - San San Sy. This is one of the papers
in the series on the components of ACJNet (Access to Justice
Network). This paper focuses on the multi-faceted nature of electronic
publishing and its possibilities within ACJNet.
- ACJNet: Online
Education (1997) - San San Sy. This is one of the papers in
the series on the components of ACJNet (Access to Justice
Network). Online education is described in the paper as one of
the five stated
goals of ACJNet. The hope was that this paper would provide the
basis for ACJNet to engage in the design and delivery
of online education.
- ACJNet: Library
Without Walls. This paper, written in 1997, focuses on one
of the more prominent components of ACJNet: the Library
without Walls. The Library without Walls (LWW) is one of the
four components
of ACJNet, the other three being the Virtual Community,
Electronic Publishing and On-Line Education.
- Public
Legal Education and Information Program Review (1997) - Federal
Department of Justice. This document is a summary of the comments
received during the telephone and in person interviews held with
some 50 federal Department of Justice staff and over 70 Public
Legal Education Information (“PLEI”) providers, intermediaries,
and experts across Canada. This is not a preliminary report.
This is a description of the categories of comments without an
attempt to analyze them or draw conclusions.
- Radical
Promise of Public Legal Education in Canada (1999) - Lois E Gander.
- Power
to the People: The Legal Studies Program Pamphlet Collection, 1976-1995 -
Kirsten Wurmann & Diane Rhyason (2004).
LINKS
- History
of the Legal Studies Program (Legal Resource
Centre)
- Legal
Studies Program Experience and Awards
- An essential aspect of documenting and preserving the history of public
legal education is the archiving of its websites. The intention of the Internet Archive is
to keep the intellectual content of web-based material available on a permanent
basis. With the waybackmachine — a
device that displays the Web as it looked on a given date — the
Internet Archive literally offers a window on the past and allows people
to access and use archived versions of stored websites.
- To access the
web presence of public legal education sites since 1996, simply enter
the web address into the Internet Archive’s waybackmachine at
http://web.archive.org/collections/web.html.
For example: enter www.acjnet.org for archived versions of the Access
to Justice Network since 1996; or enter www.plena.org for versions
of the Public Legal Education Network of Alberta from 2000 onwards.
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