"Twenty Years of Student Scholarship: Celebrating the Dalhousie Journal" by Kim Brooks and Mark Lewis

Article Title

Twenty Years of Student Scholarship: Celebrating the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

Authors

Kim Brooks, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Mark Lewis

Abstract

In the case of the Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies that person was its first editor-in-chief, Ryerson Symons. In the production of the first volume, released in 1992, he was joined by an 11-person board of directors, a 30-person editorial board, a 10-person notes and comments editorial committee, a 12-person book reviews editorial committee, a large number of managers and assistants, five founding patrons, and a six-member advisory board. A lot of people were persuaded that the Journal had merit. I might continue on the theme of identifying the characteristics of successful projects. If a good project has an early champion and a legion of people who see its merits, it has to be able to outlive those early visionaries. A friend once pointed out, a project is lousy if it fails to survive you. The Journal has not just survived, it has thrived. Twenty volumes. A remarkable accomplishment that does great honour to its early advocates.