Ilana Luther is the Director of our newest chapter, NSRLP East, based in the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University in Halifax. NSRLP East has been in existence for just under a year, but has already achieved a lot (check out their website!) and is reaching out to SRLs across Atlantic Canada in order to highlight their particular issues and challenges. Ilana is an Advisory Board member for the national NSRLP organization, and works closely with national staff to plan and prioritize goals and strategies. This conversation introduces listeners to Ilana, and her commitment to policy reform after beginning in legal practice and becoming disillusioned with, as she puts it, “pushing people through a broken system.” Ilana describes how she first recognized the disconnect between system and users when she worked in child protection; she has since gone on to work in many areas of law reform as the Director of the Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute, adding Director of NSRLP East to her busy resume in the summer of 2021. We’re excited to introduce you to Ilana and to NSRLP East!
Related links:
Access to Justice and Law Reform Institute
In Other News
Charlotte Sullivan
This week our In Other News Correspondent is Research Assistant Charlotte Sullivan. Charlotte discusses: a piece from the Law Times on the recent debate in Ontario regarding a minimum wage for articling students; a story from the Lawyer’s Daily on a historic first at the Supreme Court of Canada: an intervention by Nunavut Legal Aid; and a story from Slaw about a new tort of family violence in Ontario following the ground-breaking case of Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia.
“Law associations push for articling student minimum wage” (Law Times)
“Nunavut Legal Aid intervening at Supreme Court for first time” (The Lawyer’s Daily)
“New Tort of Family Violence in Ontario” (Slaw)
Jumping Off the Ivory Tower is produced and hosted by Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall; production and editing by Brauntë Petric; Other News produced and hosted by Charlotte Sullivan; promotion by Moya McAlister and the NSRLP team.